Geological Collection (#6)

Birthstone Series: Citrine
Citrine is a form of quartz that appears in different a variety of yellows and oranges, it is the birthstone for the month of November along with Topaz. Specimen number 21470

Marble, Breccia Sanguigna
Specimen number BM 50289, from Saxony

Curious weathering, St. Georges, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Calcareous Sandstone, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Rocks, Kushimoto, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Rock structure, Burmuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871)
Portrait of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, a geologist. Murchison was knighted in 1846, and appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey in 1855

Coal strata at coal mine, Sandy Point, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Birthstone Series: Opal
Opal is a form of silica and it is the birthstone (along with Tourmaline) for the month of October. Natural History Museum specimen number: 1908, 235. Photographed by Harry Taylor

John William Salter (1820-1869)
Portrait of John William Slater, a geologist and palaeontologist for the Geological Survey. He worked on the classification of trilobites

The Geology Department, 1938
Photograph of members of staff who worked in the Natural History Museums Geology Department in 1938

From the Beginning
One of the oldest rocks on Earth dating back 3, 850 million years on display in the From the Beginning gallery, the Natural History Museum, London. Specimen from Greenland

Diagrammatic section of the Earths crust
Fold-out plate from Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836) by William Buckland

Marble, Africano Sanguigno
Specimen number BM 82628, from the Ruins of Ancient Rome

Quarry scene, Tilgate Forest
Quarry scene in the Tilgate Forest, frontispiece from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (1827) by G. A. Mantell

Searles Valentine Wood, F. G. S. (1798-1880)
Portrait of Searles Valentine Wood, a geologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Palaeontology Response Card
The Palaeontology response card that was used in the Natural History Museum during the 1960s. Enquirers who had send in bones of sheep or horses thinking that they were fossils

The Geological Museum, London
The gemstones display area, rock face and wall cases on the Ground Floor of the Geological Museum, now part of the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken 1973

William Pengelly (1812-1894)
Portrait of William Pengelly, a geologist. Pengelly left his indelible mark on the science of geology and cave exploration

Palaeontologist at work
A palaeontologist unearths a fossil specimen using a geologists hammer

NHM Geology Department staff, 1881

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
Lithograph portrait, 1850. Adam Sedwick was a highly respected scientist, and one of the founders of geology as a science in England. In 1829 he became President of the Geological Society of London

Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855)
Painting of Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, an English geologist. Watercolour on paper, by Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855), before 1848. Original at the Natural History Museum, London

James Hutton (1726-1797)
Portrait of James Hutton, by Henry Raeburn. Hutton was a Scottish scientist and geologist. He published his Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations in 1795

Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. F. R. S. (1797-1875)
Sir Charles Lyell, a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Igneous activity
A block diagram depicting various types of igneous activity. Fig 65 from The Story of the Earth (1977), a Geological Museum booklet

Volcano model
Working model of a volcano at the Geological Museum, London

Origin of Gem Minerals
A diagram showing cross sections through the earths continental crust to a depth of 40kms. Many gemstones form within the crust at different levels and at different temperatures

Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852)
Portrait of Gideon Algernon Mantell, a fossil collector, geologist and surgeon. Portrait lithograph, 1836

William Smith (1769-1839)
Portrait of William Smith, a geologist

Emeralds
Emerald is a variety of beryl (beryllium aluminum silicate). The green colour is attributed to small amounts of chromium. Specimens from the Natural History Museum, London

Gemstone series: sapphire
Sapphire, the blue variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Sapphire can be found in a number of different colours. Specimen at the Natural History Museum, London

Birthstone Series: Peridot
Peridot, a gemstone from the Natural History Museum, London. Peridot is the birthstone for the month of August (along with Sardonyx). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Birthstone Series: Ruby

Birthstone Series: Blue Topaz

Birthstone Series: Topaz
Topaz has a chemical composition of aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide and is the birthstone for the month of November (along with Citrine). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Birthstone Series: Brilliant Cut Diamond
Diamond, a gemstone from the Natural History Museum collections, in London. Diamond is the birthstone for the month of April (along with quartz, rock crystal). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

A Collection of Goniometers
A collection of antique scientific instruments known as goniometers held within the Natural History Museum. They were used for measuring interfacial angles of very small crystals

Thomas Allan (1777-1833)
Portrait of Thomas Allan, an important figure in the history of mineralogy. This is the only known portrait of him. His collection of around 9

Poem by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840s by Mary Anning in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871). Page 2 of 3

Woman with dinosaur models, 1926
Miss Hilda Bather, daughter of Francis Arthur Bather, Keeper of Geology, offered this set of seven dinosaur models for sale from her premises, the Craft Shop at Bognor Regis, Sussex

Geology support staff, Natural History Museum
The identity of this group of characters on the front steps of the Museum remains uncertain. It is believed to include Geology Department support staff, c. 1901

Senior Geology staff, 1885
In 1885 a series of staff photographs were taken in the colonnade at the back of the Natural History Museum, London

Geological Gallery, 1882
A photograph of the Geological Gallery from the Museums Archives

Book spine of Darwins Researches
Spine of Researches in Geology and Natural History (1839) by Charles Darwin

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate (1879-1951)
Portrait of Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, a geologist

Plate 43 from Mineralogie
Azur de Cuivre Cristallise du Bannal de Temeswar. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

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