Record

CodePX1
Dates1895-1968
Person NameWood; Helen Marguerite Muir- (1895-1968); Paleontologist
SurnameWood
ForenamesHelen Marguerite Muir-
EpithetPaleontologist
ActivityMuseum Staff: A palaeontologist on the Museum staff; fossil brachiopoda. Appointed Part-time worker in Geology 1919; Part-time Assistant, 1920; Scientific Assistant in Geology, 1936; 2nd class Assistant in Geology, 1944; Deputy Keeper, 1955; Retired 1961, still came in until 1965
First woman to reach the rank of Deputy Keeper
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DF/PAL/117/33Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Robin Cox and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/124/1/29Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in German museums 
DF/PAL/124/1/17Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Geology of India: notes 
DF/ADM/1005/54Muir-Wood, Miss Helen M 
DF/PAL/100/168/1Muir-Wood, H M 
DF/PUB/516/4/22The Succession of Life Through Geological Time 
DF/PAL/124/1/11Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Classification of the Brachiopoda: lists 
DF/PAL/124/1/21Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/34Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Carboniferous and Permian stratigraphy and general 
DF/PAL/117/31Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/124/1/32Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Silurian genera and species 
DF/PAL/124/1/7Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Permain brachiopods: lists of references 
DF/PAL/124/1/5Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Carboniferous brachiopods: notes and reports 
DF/PAL/117/32Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/124/1/40Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Productacea and Chonetidae 
DF/PAL/124/1/15Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Notes on the Productoidea for the 'Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology' 
DF/PAL/124/1/33Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - foreign Devonian brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/16Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Silurian brachiopods: notes 
DF/PAL/124/1/37Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - notes on Triassic and Jurassic geology 
DF/PAL/124/1/30Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Cambrian and Ordovician genera and species 
DF/PAL/100/186/13Roche, P 
DF/PAL/124/1/25Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in French museums 
DF/PAL/124/1/9Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Notes on the embryology and biology of brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/19Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Devonian brachiopods: notes and lists 
DF/PAL/124/1/12Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Classification of the Spiriferoidea: lists 
DF/PAL/124/1/18Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: 'Productus': notes 
DF/PAL/124/1/2Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Notes on brachiopods made while a student 
DF/ZOO/213/113/24Muir-Wood, Helen: report on Brachiopoda (Volume X/6)  
DF/PAL/124/1/39Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - foreign Liassic brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/28Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in British and Irish museums 
DF/PAL/124/1/4Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Reports on brachiopod collections given to the Museum, with other items 
DF/PAL/124/1/13Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Carboniferous and Permian correlation tables prepared for 'British Palaeozoic Fossils' 
DF/PAL/124/1/23Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow 
DF/PAL/124/1/8Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Permain brachiopods: lists of localities 
DF/PAL/117/38Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Leslie Bairstow and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/117/30Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/117/29Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/124/1/23Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - British brachiopods 
DF/PAL/117/36Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards, Leslie Reginald Cox and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/100/164/13Middlemiss, F A 
DF/PAL/124/1/27Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in Yale and Washington 
DF/PAL/124/1/36Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Permian palaeogeography and stratigraphy 
DF/PAL/124/1/38Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - British Jurassic brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/20Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: 'Short description of genera' of productid brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/35Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Permian stratigraphy 
DF/PAL/109/7'Succession of Life' by K P Oakley and H M Muir-Wood: notes and artwork by M Wilson and D E Woodall 
DF/PAL/124/1/10Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: 'Marginifera' from Iraq: notes and photographs, with a typescript by N Sudbury 
DF/PAL/117/35Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards, Leslie Bairstow, Leslie Reginald Cox, Henry Dighton Thomas and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PUB/516/4/28The Succession of Life through Geological Time 
DF/PAL/124/1/3Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: The Nile and the geology of Egypt 
DF/PAL/117/28Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/124/3/3Brunton, Charles Howard Campbell: correspondence on the purchase of H Muir-Wood's reprint collection 
DF/PUB/516/4/37The Succession of Life Through Geological Time 
DF/PAL/117/37Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards, Leslie Bairstow, Henry Dighton Thomas and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/117/39Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards, Leslie Reginald Cox and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/105/30Buckman, S S: letters on the purchase of his collection of ammonites 
DF/PAL/117/34Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by Wilfred Norman Edwards, Robin Cox, Henry Dighton Thomas and Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood 
DF/PAL/117/11Palaeontology Department loan register, signed by William Dickson Lang, Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood, Henry Dighton Thomas and Leslie Reginald Cox 
DF/PAL/124/1/1Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: correspondence 
DF/PAL/124/1/42Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: and Charles Howard Brunton 
DF/PAL/124/1/26Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh 
DF/PAL/124/1/24Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - brachiopods in the Geological Survey and Museum 
DF/PH/2/5/1/1Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff 
DF/PAL/124/1/31Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - notebook: Ordovician brachiopod species 
DF/PAL/124/1/14Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Moore, R C, correspondence on the 'Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology' 
DF/PAL/124/1/6Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 
DF/PAL/124/1/41Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: notebook - Artwork and proofs of illustrations for publications 
DF/PAL/124/4/4Fossil Brachiopoda: Sectional Correspondence, 1950-2005 
DF/PAL/124/1/46Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - miscellaneous notes on the brachiopoda 
DF/PAL/124/1/65Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notes on Lias and Inferior Oolite 
DF/PAL/124/1/48Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Jurassic Brachiopoda, 1919 
DF/PAL/124/1/45Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - brachiopods in Bristol University collections  
DF/PAL/124/1/49Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Jurassic, Buckman and Survey collections, Sedgwick Museum. 
DF/PAL/124/1/52Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Gibraltar 
DF/PAL/124/1/51Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - brachiopods in Harvard, Yale and Washingon 
DF/PAL/124/1/47Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - outline classification of the Carboniderous Producti  
DF/PAL/124/1/53Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - brachiopods in the Walker Museum, Chicago University and the American Museum of Natural History, New York 
DF/PAL/124/1/54Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - brachiopods in the [Smithsonian] National Museum [of Natural History], Washington 
DF/PAL/124/1/55Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Great Oolite series, I, stratigraphical 
DF/PAL/124/1/59Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Brachiopoda II: recent genera - morphology, physiology, histology. 
DF/PAL/124/1/60Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - sketches of the structure of brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/58Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - notes on recent Brachiopoda 
DF/PAL/124/1/56Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Great Oolite (stratigraphy) and Great Oolite Series succession 
DF/PAL/124/1/62Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Great Oolite Terebratulid, Book I 
DF/PAL/124/1/67Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: correspondence resolving the taxonomic position of Cancrinella 
DF/PAL/124/1/64Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notes on Inferior Oolite and excursion to Bridport 1886 
DF/PAL/124/1/66Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notes on carboniferous brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/4/3Fossil Brachiopoda: Sectional Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1942-1964 
DF/PAL/124/1/44Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Delthyris crispa and sulcata from Wenlock Lst Gothland 
DF/PAL/124/1/61Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - sketches of the structure of brachiopods 
DF/PAL/124/1/57Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Jurassic notes and lierature  
DF/PAL/124/1/50Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - Geneva and Malta 
DF/PAL/124/1/63Wood; Helen Marguerite Muir: notebook - miscellaneous notes on Brachiopod genera and Terebratuloid recent and Tertiary genera 
DF/PAL/124/4/1Fossil Brachiopoda: Sectional Correspondence A-Z, c1920-1990 
DF/PAL/124/5/3/35Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence, 1949-2019 
DF/TRU/900/14Trustees Standing Committee Minutebook 14, 1936 - 1944 
DF/PAL/124/4/3/2Fossil Brachiopoda: Sectional Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1950-1951 
DF/PAL/124/1Wood, Helen Marguerite Muir-: Correspondence and Papers 
DF/PAL/124Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers 
DF/PAL/124/4/5Correspondence between H. M. Muir-Wood and J. W. Jackson relating to the donation of his collection to the British Museum (Natural History) 
DF/PH/2/5/1/4Staff Group Photograph: Geology Department Staff 
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