Historical survey collections
Part of the alcohol preserved invertebrate collection of the National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland has collections from the following important historical expeditions in its Natural Sciences Collection:
Scotia expedition(s) collection
- Specimens were collected during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904, on the research ship Scotia. W S Bruce was the driving force behind this expedition.
- Includes dried as well as alcohol preserved material (vertebrates and invertebrates) published in the Scotia Reports.
Rattlesnake expedition collection
- The surveying expedition of HMS Rattlesnake to New Guinea and Australia (1846-1850) is famous since Thomas Huxley was the surgeon on board and it formed the foundation for his scientific career.
- Edward Forbes mentored Huxley's marine biological work and described the mollusca from the Rattlesnake expedition.
- All dried material
- Poor data and poor condition