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

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.

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... 

Department of Mineralogy The Natural History Museum London, UK... 

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... 

A Dino Directory produced by the Natural History Museum, London contains a wealth of information and images... 

Peter Forey is a researcher in fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum, London, where he undertakes research into the anatomy and relationships of fishes, in particular coelacanths and primitive teleost fishes. While most of his research is specimen based, there is inevitably a theoretical component concerned with how relationships are discovered and how the results are expressed in diagrams and classifications. Within the field of paleontology there is division between those who advocate that the present is the key to the past, and those who believe that the past is the key to the present. Forey sides with the former, and explores ways in which the fossil record is best able to supplement our explanations of present diversity. He has contributed to and edited several volumes of essays concerned with such diverse subjects as the theory and practice of cladistics, the relationship between systematics and conservation, and the kinds of observations that can usefully reveal the paths of evolution. 

Spain, Straits of Gibraltar), the coast near Marseille (southern France), Prvic Island (Croatia), Malta, Zembra Island, and the Aegean-Lebanon-Israel area in the Mediterranean. All these localities are shown in Fig. 8.2 and described in Table 8.1. Because specimens were not collected randomly at any locality we have given the maximum size for each valve rather than the mean or variation about the mean. We also had at our disposal specimens in the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) collections from West Africa (NHM ZB 138, ZB 1613-1616 no other locality information) figured as Crania rostrata by Reeve (1862), as well as Brunton s (1988) original material (NHM ZB 3968) from Israel. 

Illustrated material is housed in the Palaeontological Collections of The Natural History Museum, London, with specimen numbers prefixed BB and ZB in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, with specimen numbers prefixed USNM in the Institute of Geology, Tallinn, with specimen numbers prefixed IGT and in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, with specimen numbers prefixed SM. 

Background research support from the UK NERC collections from many people, especially B.R. de Forges advice and encouragement from Alwyn Williams automated sequencing service from the Molecular Biology Support Unit, University of Glasgow brachiopod identification by Sarah L. Long and C. Howard C. Brunton, The Natural History Museum, London Carsten Liiter for permission to refer to unpublished data. 

This study was supported by the Academy of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the SYS-RESOURCE program which provided the opportunity to work in the Natural History Museum, London. Greatest thanks go to Dr. Teuvo Ahti for help with nomenclatural details and Heino Vanska for Latin translation. We wish to thank curators in B, BM, FH, JE, L, M, NICH, NY, PC, PE, S, TUNG and W for providing herbarium material for our study. 

When the organism dies the skeleton falls to the bottom of the ocean. Many of these skeletons have shapes similar to bubbles trapped in frameworks. Some of the Radiolarian skeletons are shown in Fig. 4.24. These skeletons were obtained by the biologist Ernst Haeckel on the Challenger Expedition of 1873-76. He found the skeletons in samples of mud taken from the ocean bed. Many of the samples are to be found in the Natural History Museum, London, England. Some superb glass models of these skeletons are to be seen at The Natural History Museum in New York City. 

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