The Natural History Museum

Everard Britton is one of Australia s most distinguished entomologists. For more than twenty years, he was a curator at the Natural History Museum in London. Now he s retired but still retains his passion for beetles such as chafers and the Melolonthinae. 

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK... 

David A. Johnston, Wolfson-Wellcome Biomedical Laboratory, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. Email, daj nhm.ac.uk Matty Knight, Biomedical Research Institute, 12111 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852, USA. Email, mknight afbr-bri.com... 

Figure 3.14 Detail of some natural opals from the Natural History Museum ofVienna. The iridescence of this semiprecious stone of hydrated silica is due to the ordered packaging of the silica microspheres as shown on the left bottom comer. This structure can be artificially reproduced and... 

Geological-Paleontological Department of the Natural History Museum,... 

Department of Botany The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road London SW7 5BD UK... 

It will be observed that all of the meteorites contain, in addition to nickel, a small quantity of cobalt, whilst the carbon content is extremely small. Carbon is sometimes present in meteoric iron in the form of minute diamonds.2 The Rowton specimen is interesting as being the first sidente observed to fall in Great Britain, and may be seen in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. The Perryville siderite is the first recorded instance of the presence of ruthenium in meteoric iron. In addition to traces of this element, traces of iridium, palladium, and platinum were detected. 

For an overview and bibliography covering many aspects of this area see the Natural History Museum s site at http //www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/phos/... 

There is a fine example of a pair of gloves made of byssal threads in the Natural History Museum in London, where they are on display in the Invertebrate Galleries. 

Ross, Andrew (1998). Amber, the Natural Time Capsule. The Natural History Museum, London. 

During the last decade or so, a couple of science museums have been set up in the country including one at Delhi, the Natural History Museum. In Delhi s Pragati Maidan, National Science Centre (National Council of Science Museums) has also been set up few years back. It has several units. FUN GAMES and ENERGY units are very interesting for students. Delhi also has two Primary Science Museums ... 

Chris Stringer, who is today the head of the Human Origins Group of the Natural History Museum in London, recounts a most interesting tale of scientific discovery in his recent book, African Exodus, co-authored by the science writer Robin McKie. it is the kind of story which has epitomized the romance and excitement... 

Figure 1.4 One of the earliest surviving drawings (from 1769) of Piper methystkum by Daniel Scholander. Note that the plant is denoted in the drawing as P. inebrians, re-named P. methystkum by Captain Cook s botanist Johann Forster. Reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London.

FIGURE 2.8 Meteorite classification from the Natural History Museum of London s Catalog of Meteorites, Fifth Edition (Grady, 2000). 

During the last decade or so, a couple of science museums have been set up in the country including one at Delhi, the Natural History Museum. In Delhi s Pragati Maidan, National Science... 

Microprobe mappings and measurements of minor element concentrations were obtained at the Analytical Centre of the Mineralogical Laboratory of the Natural History Museum (London) using a CAMECA SX 50 instrument equipped with four wave-length dispersive detectors. Atomic force observations were carried out with a Dimension 3000 microscope (Digital Instrument) using the... 

It is obvious that to be able to produce a large set of definitive spectra, a source of well-characterized minerals is required, but the location of such a source is not necessarily so obvious. Our two museums - The Natural History Museum in London and the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh - have joined forces to provide such a source, using their renowned mineral collections and authenticating each mineral by modern advanced methods of analysis and identification. 

The majority of the mineral specimens used in this compilation are from the collections of the Mineralogy Department of The Natural History Museum, London, and the Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Others were acquired from dealers and colleagues specifically for this work. 

Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden and Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, UK... 

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