Geological Collection (page 8)

Plate 27 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)
Moreau singulier de Calamine quis est incrustee sur du Spath piramidal, le qu els est decompose et a laisse la place vuide... From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.1 (1790) by F.L

Title page from Mineralogie Volume 2 (1790)
Mineralogie Tome III Contenant les gemes, chorles, Feldspath, Asbeste, Plombagine, Bithume &c. Title page from Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.3 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 9a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 9a, Mineralogie, from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 24 from Mineralogie
Mine de Fer grise de Saxe Coloree gorge de Pigeon. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 11 from Mineralogie
Grouppe de Cristaux de Mine de Plomb blanche d Huegoet pres Poullaoen en Basse Bretagne. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 44 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)

Plate 25 from Mineralogie
Mine de Fer Coloree et Cristallisee en Octaedres prismatique tres curieux. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Isle of Wight amber
Spider in Isle of Wight amber. Lower Cretaceous about 130 million years old. Borrowed from Museum of Isle of Wight Geology

Birthstone Series: Aquamarine
Aquamarine is the blue variety of beryl (beryllium aluminum silicate) and is the birthstone of the month of March. A gemstone from the Natural History Museum collections, in London

Men looking for shrapnel, 1940
Arthur Hopwood, Assistant Keeper of Geology, appointed Salvage Officer in 1940, and Clive Forster Cooper, Director of the Museum, looking for shrapnel

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Mayo Belwa, African meteorite
This meteorite formed in a similar way to some igneous rocks in the Earth, and not by condensation of dust from nebular gas. Image from From Behind The Scenes (1987) by Dr Lawrence Mound

Mineral replacement
This piece of wood has been replaced with metallic copper. Specimen is from the Mavovouni mines, Cyprus 2, 300 BP. Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum, London

Peculiar stratifications just outside the dockyards, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Baryte
Specimen of the mineral Baryte from Wheal Mary Ann Menheriot, Cornwal, England

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Portrait of Sir Charles Lyell, a Scottish born lawyer turned geologist, and author of The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man (1863). Knighted in 1848

Axinite

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

Costume of the Glaciers (sketch of William Buckland)

Flint hand axe (label)
Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400, 000 years old. This close-up of the label shows the date and initials J.P, for John Prestwich

Meteoric Stone, Wold Cottage
One of a series of 5 postcards featuring British meteorites produced and sold by the museum in the 1920s

Meteoric stone, Rowton
One of a series of 5 postcards featuring British meteorites produced and sold by the museum in the 1920s

Section of the plains of Patagonia diagram
Section of the plains of Patagonia, on the banks of the S.Cruz cross-section diagram (p.114) from Charles Darwins Geological Observations on South America, 1846

North and South section across the valley of Coquimbo, diag
North and South section across the valley of Coquimbo diagram (p.240) from Charles Darwins Geological Observations on South America, 1846

Dr Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852)
Gideon Algernon Mantell, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c. Fossil collector, geologist and surgeon

Geology Department preparators shop, 1934
This photograph shows Louis Parsons preparing a skeleton of the plant-eating dinosaur Hypsilophodon, for display at the Natural History Museum, London

William Buckland (1784-1856)
Print annotated in pencil Dr Buckland Dean of Westminster. Buckland was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur

Ashcroft Collection of Swiss minerals
Frederick Noel Ashcroft meticulously recorded details relating to his collections in his notebooks, which are now housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Onion skin boulder
Onion skin is a type of weathering where thin layers are exfoliated by erosion processes producing an onion skin effect

Rhodochrosite manganocalcite
Specimen from Schemnitz, Hungary, Greville Collection, 1810 (Baron Ignatz von Born specimen). BM 89666

William Bean (1787-1866)
Portrait of William Bean, a British geologist. From Monograph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles

William Smiths geological table
Fig 2 from Delineation of Strata of England and Wales (1815) by William Smith

Krakatau map
Figure 1 from Krakatau by R D M Verbeek showing the group of islands

Artificial bismuth crystals
A specimen of man-made bismuth crystals

BERTELLI, Fernando (16th century). Map of Iceland, 1566. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 National de la Marine (Paris Navy museum)

ARGENTINA. SAN JUAN. Ischigualasto National Park. Moon Valley (Triassic geological period). Clay spheres

British Association outing to the Wrekin
During the meeting of the British Association in Birmingham, an excursion was made to the Wrekin, a hill in Shropshire of geological interest

Needle Rock, Fishguard, Wales
The Needle Rock at Fishguard, Wales. It is a dolerite stack with a hole through its base, standing 130 feet high. Showing locals rowing a boat through the opening

A GEOLOGICAL FAULT
A geological fault in Campsie Glen, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Red Lion sculpture in York Road, near Waterloo, London
A Red Lion sculpture from the old Red Lion Brewery, in a new position in York Road, near Waterloo Station, not far from the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London

View of the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View of The Grimselstrasse, winding up the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Date: circa 1940

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

Geological Museum Inside
The Great Hall of the Economic Geology Museum, Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, London, (previously the Practical Geology Museum) Date: 1851

Vulcans Cave, Italy
The burning valley called Vulcans Cave near Naples

Fumeroles near Naples
Fumeroles on Campi Flegrei, near Naples

Monte Nuovo, Italy
The volcano Monte Nuovo, close to Pozzuoli, Naples, Southern Italy

Volcano crater visit, Pozzuoli
A visit to the crater of a volcano at Pozzuoli, Naples

Monte Nuovo
The formation of the Monte Nuovo volcano, Pozzuoli, Naples, Southern Italy

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