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Collapse 1 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 11 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 1
1 - Species of Echinides found in the chalk of Switzerland, from JLR Agassiz
2 - Shells from Kashmir. Mr H H Godwin - Austen
3 - 'Catalogue des fossiles Siluriene de la Boheme, envoyés par J Barrande au British Museum, a Londres. 1er envoi, Juin 1854'. Also the catalogue of the second part, November 1855
4 - Fossils from the Eocene limestone, Scinde. Major W E Baker etc
5 - 'Selection from the William Bean Collection for the British Museum, Scarborough'
6 - The Trustees of the British Museum to Alfred Bell
7 - Miocene fossils from Piedmont named by Professor Bellardi of the University Museum of Turin, Italy
8 - Verzeichniss ... Keuper und Muschelkalk. K F W Braun
9 - New Zealand Fossils
10 - Dr Hector's collection of New Zealand fossils
11 - List of specimens selected from the museum of the late Prof van Breda, in Haarlem. January 1871.' With a supplementary list, 22 February, and a letter of Dr D de Haan
12 - 'Mr John Brown's collection'
13 - List of fossils offered to the British Museum by Edward Charlesworth
14 - Catalogue of Red Crag Lithodomi. July 17th 1869. Charlesworth E
15 - Catalogue of small shells from the Miocene Tertiary beds of Bordeaux ... Purchased by the British Museum of Edward Charlesworth
16 - Catalogue of fossils from the Crag of Suffolk offered by Edward Charlesworth
17 - Catalogue with notes upon a collection of Crag fossils offered by E Charlesworth. 3 Feb 1869, with a list of fossils from the Red and Coralline Crag
18 - Copy of a letter from Alexander Cochrane to Lord Melville, 27 Aug 1813, on the skeleton from Guadaloupe
19 - Eocene, Paris Basin. Deshayes, G P.
20 - Fossils from Robert Damon
21 - 'Secondary fossils. Titonia & Sicily. From Royal Museum, Palermo. Bought of Robert Damon, with 'Shells of the Newer Pliocene or Norwich Crag. Woodward, S P. and list of Jurassic fossils from Somerset Etheridge, R FRS
22 - Collection of fossil plants. Ettinghausen, C F von
23 - Collection of fossil plants. Ettinghausen, C F von
24 - Collection of fossil plants [from Austria and elsewhere]. Baron C F von Ettinghausen
25 - Second Quarterly Report on the Bornean Cave Exploration, [in a letter from A Hart Everett to J Evans]
26 - List of remains &c found in Sarawak Cave, Borneo. A Hart Everett, 30 Nov 1878.' with 'Aegean Radiata. E Forbes
27 - Classification of Recent Echinodermata from Prof Edward Forbes
28 - Rough list of fossils from South Carolina and New York
29 - Rough lists of fossils from South Carolina and New York
30 - Rough lists of fossils from South Carolina and New York
31 - Rough lists of Cretaceous echinoderms
32 - 'Diadema' Gray [stratigraphic list of species]
33 - Collection of Carboniferous plants offered to the British Museum by the Museum at Prague. Dr A Fritsch. with 'Museum of Prague to the British Museum. Trilobites. Dr A Fritsch
34 - Summary of Mr J S Gardner's Gault, Greensand and Chalk fishes and reptiles offered to the Museum for £150.
35 - These specimens have been named by Geinitz and since revised by Sir Charles Bunbury
36 - A catalogue of the Mountain Limestone fossils in the collection of W Gilbertson
37 - Hayden Collection. Collected by Lieutenant Warren and Dr. Hayden, Upper Missouri
38 - Schedule of fossils from New Zealand presented ... by Dr Hector
39 - Fossil plants' from New Zealand, Dr Hector, rough notes and engravings
40 - Fossils presented by R L Jack, Townsville, Queensland
41 - The Trustees of the British Museum to Charles Ketley
42 - Klipstein Collection. Catalog einer palaeontologischen Sammlung aus den ostlichen Alpen [with five letters from Klipstein, 1836-1851] with 'The British Museum to Dr A Krantz in Bonn. 1 Aug 1860
43 - Papers relating to the fossils of Madeira and P Santo [and the Canary Islands]. Sir C Lyell.
44 - Papers relating to the fossils of Madeira and P Santo. C Lyell [collected by W Reiss and J Y Johnson, with sketches]
45 - Newer Tertiary fossils. New Zealand. Presented by Walter Mantell Esq
46 - Shells from Otago, New Zealand. Walter Mantell
47 - List of fossils ?presented by Mr Mushen, Birmingham
48 - Letter from Richard and John Ripley to Charles Konig, Whitby, 30 May 1839, with a printed list of fossils
49 - List of Northampton Sand fossils. S Sharp
50 - Mrs Smith's collection
51 - Letter from L Saemann to S P Woodward, Paris
52 - Lists of fossils from Iowa etc by C Wachsmuth
53 - Lists of fossils from Iowa etc by C Wachsmuth
54 - Collection of fossils made by Sir Robert Schomburgk in the eastern part .... of the island of Santo Domingo
55 - Casts of bones of the pigmy elephant from Malta
56 - Saggi della Formazione Cretacea della Brianza raccolte ed ordinati dai Fratelli Villa di Milano
57 - Mayence Basin, Weichmann, G D
58 - Lower Miocene from the SE of France Weichmann G D
59 - Rough lists of specimens from the N T Wetherell Collection wanted by the Museum
60 - Lists of Jurassic fossils from continental Europe
61 - Sicilian fossils' and 'Fossils from Sicily
Expand 2 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 22 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 2
Expand 3 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 33 - 'Manuscript Catalogues of Geological Collections', volume 3
4 - Cautley, P T: papers on fossil vertebrates from the Siwalik Hills, with letters of J F Royle
5 - Reffay, L: papers on the purchase of a mastodon skull from the Himalayas
6 - Papers on the acquisition of skeletons of the giant deer, 'Cervus megaceros', from Ireland
7 - Murchison, R I: letters on purchase of a fossil fish from Scotland
8 - Rutland, Duke of: letters on plesiosaurs from Belvoir, Nottinghamshire
9 - Letters on fossil reptiles from Whitby, North Yorkshire
10 - Pepper, Miss: papers on fossil vertebrates from Perim Island found by her father, Captain Pepper
11 - Rule, J: letters on the purchase of a fragment of 'Dinornis' from New Zealand by R Bright
12 - Deane, J: papers on purchase of fossil footprints from Massachusetts, USA
13 - Bain, A G: papers on fossil vertebrates from South Africa
14 - Papers on preparation of a plaster cast of a gigantic fossil tortoise from the Himalayas
15 - Earl, P: papers on bones of 'Dinornis' from New Zealand
16 - Mantell, W B D: papers on bones of 'Dinornis' from New Zealand
17 - Dixon, F: letters on his collection of English fossils
18 - Lists and notes on fossil vertebrates from Australia
19 - Ponsort, Baron de: letters on purchase of fossil fish from France
20 - Notes of donation and purchase of bones of 'Dinornis' from New Zealand and other fossil birds
21 - Barrande, J: letters on the purchase of his collection of Silurian fossils from Bohemia
22 - Lists of fossil vertebrates acquired from J Brown and others
23 - Bruckman, A E: letters on the purchase of fossils from Switzerland
24 - Lists of fossil vertebrates from South Africa acquired from W G Atherstone and others, with rough notes
25 - Bain, T: papers on fossil vertebrates from South Africa
26 - Enniskillen, Earl of, and Egerton, P de M G: papers on the purchase of their collections of fossil fish
27 - Moore, C: printed notices of his collection
28 - Goodwin, F S: papers on red deer antlers from Derbyshire described in 'Philosophical Transactions'
29 - Ewen, C A: papers on the purchase of bones of 'Dinornis' from New Zealand
30 - Buckman, S S: letters on the purchase of his collection of ammonites
31 - Lists of casts bought and sold
32 - Notes on fossil footprints displayed in the Museum
33 - Lists of fossil fish, donated and purchased
34 - Notes on fossil fish, with sketches and a photograph
35 - Notes on fossil reptiles, with lists and a sketch
36 - Notes on fossil mammals, with lists and a sketch
37 - List of donations of fossil bones, 1758-1836
38 - Requests for duplicates from British schools, colleges and museums
39 - Donation and exchange of duplicates with institutions: in Britain
40 - Donations and exchange of duplicates with institutions: on the continent of Europe
41 - Donations and exchange of duplicates with institutions: in North and South America
42 - Donations and exchange of duplicates with institutions: in Australia and New Zealand
43 - Purchase of a labyrinthodont skeleton from Dr B Dunstan
44 - List of desiderata in the collections
45 - John Gray collection of Silurian fossils: correspondence
46 - Transcripts of letters and minutes relating to the collection of William Smith, 1816-1818
47 - List of registered duplicates destroyed or distributed
48 - Description of a skeleton of an ox found in the south part of Scania
49 - Wilson, E A: list of extinct birds from Chatham Island [New Zealand] presented to the museum in 1930
50 - Waramuri Mission, British Guiana: sketch view showing the place where the skeletons were found
51 - Notes and memoranda on specimens given or sold to the museum
52 - List of fossils transferred to and from Zoology Department
53 - Messrs Harrison and Hodgson: papers relating to offer of a felled fossil tree from Jarrow Slake, Northumberland, by R Owen and others
54 - Haberlein, Dr K : correspondence and memoranda concerning the purchase of 'Archaeopteryx' and other fossils
55 - Soemmerring, S T von: letters on the purchase of his fossil collection
Expand 56 - Hawkins, T: letters and memorandum on the purchase of his collections of fossil reptiles56 - Hawkins, T: letters and memorandum on the purchase of his collections of fossil reptiles
57 - Roth, S: letters about his collection of Pleistocene mammals from the Pampas of South America, with a manuscript catalogue
58 - Priced list of Pleistocene Mammalia from localities in Germany and eastern Europe, late nineteenth century
59 - Krantz, F: letter about Devonian crinoids from Germany, with drawings
60 - File relating to loans out
61 - File relating to gifts, duplicates and exchanges
62 - File relating to gifts, duplicates and exchanges
63 - File relating to gifts, duplicates and exchanges
64 - File relating to loans in to the department
65 - File relating to gifts to the museum
66 - File realting to exchanges of duplicate specimens
67 - File relating to exchanges of duplicate specimens
68 - File relating to exchanges of duplicate specimens and casts
69 - File relating to loans policy
70 - File relating to purchase of specimens recommended to the Trustees
71 - Palaeontological and borehole specimens on exhibit
72 - Prestwich collection of Coalbrook Dale fossils
Expand 106 - Palaeontology Staff Files and Diaries106 - Palaeontology Staff Files and Diaries
Expand 107 - Keeper of Palaeontology's Subject Files107 - Keeper of Palaeontology's Subject Files
Expand 108 - Palaeontology Visitor Books108 - Palaeontology Visitor Books
Expand 109 - Palaeontology Publications Correspondence and Artwork109 - Palaeontology Publications Correspondence and Artwork
Expand 110 - Palaeontology Parcel Books110 - Palaeontology Parcel Books
Expand 116 - Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man116 - Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man
Expand 117 - Palaeontology and Geology Loan Registers117 - Palaeontology and Geology Loan Registers
Expand 118 - Palaeontology Accession Registers118 - Palaeontology Accession Registers
Expand 120 - Palaeontology Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers120 - Palaeontology Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 121 - Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers121 - Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 122 - Fossil Mollusca Section: Correspondence and Papers122 - Fossil Mollusca Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 123 - Fossil Echinodermata Section: Correspondence and Papers123 - Fossil Echinodermata Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 124 - Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers124 - Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 125 - Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers125 - Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 126 - Fossil Fish Section: Correspondence and Papers126 - Fossil Fish Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 127 - Fossil Foraminifera Section: Correspondence and Papers127 - Fossil Foraminifera Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 128 - Fossil Insect Section: Correspondence and Papers128 - Fossil Insect Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 129 - Fossil Mammal Section: Correspondence and Papers129 - Fossil Mammal Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 130 - Palaeobotany Section: Correspondence and papers130 - Palaeobotany Section: Correspondence and papers
Expand 131 - Micropalaeontology Section: Correspondence and Papers131 - Micropalaeontology Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 132 - Fossil Arthropod Section: Correspondence and Papers132 - Fossil Arthropod Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 133 - Fossil Algae Section: Correspondence and Papers133 - Fossil Algae Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 140 - Anthropology Sub-Department Staff Correspondence and Papers140 - Anthropology Sub-Department Staff Correspondence and Papers
Expand 141 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Subject Files141 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Subject Files
Expand 143 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Photographic Collection143 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Photographic Collection
Expand 150 - Geology Section: Correspondence and Papers150 - Geology Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 151 - Preparator Section: Correspondence and Papers151 - Preparator Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 152 - Palaeontology Expeditions152 - Palaeontology Expeditions
Expand 160 - Palaeontology Library Accessions160 - Palaeontology Library Accessions
Expand 161 - Palaeontology Librarian's Correspondence161 - Palaeontology Librarian's Correspondence
Expand 162 - Fossil Bryozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers162 - Fossil Bryozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers
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