Geology Collection (page 9)

Geological timetable
Page 13 from The Natural History Museum Book of Dinosaurs (1993)

Tray of Precious Gemstones held in the mineralogy department of the Natural History Museum

Plate 38 from Mineralogie
Beau Moceau de Malachite Rubanee de Siberie. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 53 from Mineralogie
Mine de Plomb blanc en rayon et Colore du Hars tire du Cabinet de Mr. Aubert. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 9 from Mineralogie
Superbe cristal de Spath calcaire qui passe a l etat de Fer Spatique dont ou voit la Mine de Fer qui le penetre. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 26 from Mineralogie
Etain Jaune Cristallise en octaedre avec un coommencement de prisme d Angleter livre de la belle collections dr Mr. Forster. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L

Plate 42 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)
Coupe de la corne d ammons don?t chacunes des cazes, renferme une variete particuliere du Spath calcaire. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.1 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 40 from Mineralogie
Mine de Cuivre Vert Soieuse avec Azur mamelonee. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 2 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)
Gipse ecailleux perle dans ses calsure et en prismes dont les sommts aronclis, des environs de Paris. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie vol.1 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 13 from Mineralogie Volume 1 (1790)
Selenite en prismes tres alonge et transparant, d Espagne tire du Cabinet de Mr. Grigot d Orey. From Recuille complet de Mineralogiea vol.1 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 102 from Mineralogie
Superbe groupe de grands cristaux d Aigue marine de Siberie. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie Vol.3 (1790) by F. L. Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 34 from Mineralogie
Curieux morceau de Mine de Cuvre vert et bleu de Montagne de Mr. Forster. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

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

Triassic and Devonian rocks
An angular unconformity between two rock formations: Triassic rocks (horizontal) on Devonian rocks (inclined at about 40 degrees), western England, UK

Frederick Noel Ashcroft (1878-1949)
Frederick Noel Ashcroft, a mineralogist, in Sedrum. Ashcroft collected swiss minerals which are now housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Entrance to a cave in Hamilton, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Birthstone Series: Zircon
Zircon comes in a variety of colours, but most commonly brown or green. It is the birthstone for the month of December (along with Tanzinte and Turquoise). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Thenardite
A specimen of the mineral Thenardite (number 1929, 1859) held in the Natural History Museums Mineral Department

Birthstone Series: Fire Opal
This specimen is called a fire opal because of its red-orange colour. Many of these specimens originate from Mexico. Opal is the birthstone for the month of October. Photographed by Harry Taylor

Birthstone Series: Lazurite

Marble, Breccia Coallina Rosa
Specimen number BM 82645, from the Ruins of Ancient Rome

Arsenopyrite
Specimen number BM 20204, from the Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England

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

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