Museum Scientist Collection

Museum scientists holding Oarfish specimen
Regalecus glesne. From left to right: Graham Pellow, Colin McCarthy, Prof. Philip Rainbow, Dr. Roger Lincoln, Ollie Crimmen and Sir Neil Chalmers

Scientist working with a ragworm specimen
Scientist dissecting a ragworm specimen, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961)
Portrait of Martin Alister Campbell Hinton, a zoologist and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History). From Piltdown, A Scientific Forgery

Fran Kern with herbarium specimen
Fran Kern a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is Nymphaea candida C. Presl, candid water lily collected in Sweden

Arapaimo gigas, giant arapaimo
Specimen of the giant arapaimo (Arapaimo gigas), the worlds largest fresh water fish growing up to 5m long. Found in Brazil, Guyana and Peru

Moving specimens to the Darwin Centre
Moving zoological specimens from the old Spirit Building to the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Oliver Crimmen with Pseudoscarus lepidus specimen
Oliver Crimmen, curator at the Natural History Museum, London. Specimen featured is a parrotfish, holotype, Tahiti, collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle voyage

Kim Goodger with butterfly specimen
Kim Goodger a curator at The Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is a Papilio sp

Scientist working with parasitic worms
Museum scientist working with parasitic worms in a zoology laboratory

Taxonomic research in the fish section
Research on the fish collections at the Natural History Museum, London

Dr. Andrew Ross of the Natural History Museums Palaeontology Department

Entomology Department
Entomology department at the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Oliver Crimmen with fish specimens held in the Darwin Centre at The Natural History Museum, London

Albert Gunther (1830-1914)
A black and white portrait of Albert Gunther, a German-born British zoologist

Max Barclay with beetle specimen

Microbiology laboratory in the Darwin Centre
Scientists working in the microbiology laboratory in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Acipenser sp. sturgeon
An eight foot long sturgeon, caught off the coast of Wales, June 2004. It was once the subject of a police investigation, but was eventually donated to the Natural History Museum, London

Physeter catodon, sperm whale
A 52 ft male sperm whale stranded at Atwick, Humberside in Dec 1993. Teeth removed for sectioning determined the animals age at 35 yrs. Whale stranding programme -nhm.ac.uk/zoology/stranding/

Bird skins
Specimens from the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Professor Sir Arthur Tansley (1871-1955)
Portrait of Sir Arthur Tansley, an English botanist

Collecting moths at light
Dr Gaden Robinson collecting moths at light, Rampayoh R. valley, Brunei

Working on Gallimimus
John Holmes at the Natural History Museum, London works on the reconstruction of the dinosaur Gallimimus

Specimen label
Scientist writing a specimen label in indelible ink on paper for a specimen held in spirit, at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist working in Darwin Centre
Oliver Crimmen working with the zoological spirit collection in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist working with tissue collection
Scientist working in the Entomology Department returning specimens of tissue and DNA samples to freezer storage

Scientist working with tissue collections
Scientist working in the Entomology Department returning specimens of tissue and DNA samples to freezer storage

Scientist on field trip
Scientist carrying out a field sample in the UK

Scientist working in herbarium
Botanist annotating herbarium specimen sheet at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist working with specimens
Scientist checking the temperature of freezer store of specimens at The Natural History Museum, London

Curator working in Botany Department
Curator preparing herbarium specimen sheet for collection at The Natural History Museum, London

Curator checking specimens
Curator checking zoological specimens at The Natural History Museum, London

Scientist working in Entomology Department
Entomologist working with arachnid collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Scientist identifying specimens
Entomologist identifying arachnid specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Frank Greenaway, Science Photographer
Museum photographer Frank Greenaway lighting a gemstone so that the internal structure is captured in a photograph

Professor J. S. Weiner
Pretoria born scientist who became Reader in Physical Anthropology at Oxford. In 1953 he famously exposed the Piltdown Man as a fraud

Curation and data transfer
Transfering specimen data from hand written museum ledgers to a computer database, once completed it will provide access to huge amounts of data on the natural world

Scientist at work adding alcohol to a specimen jar
An end to the effort of moving large volumes of spirit around the storerooms by hand, in the Darwin Centre alcohol is available at the workbench on tap

Scientist at work at The Natural History Museum, London
Accurate identification of copepod crustaceans is a time consuming task for specialists, requiring meticulous sorting, dissection, and the use of high resolution microscopy

Andrew Stimson identifying marine turtles that have been confiscated by H.M. Customs

DNA Laboratory at the Natural History Museum
Scientist at work in a DNA Laboratory at the Natural History Museum, London, 1997

Professor Chris Stringer with four hominid skulls
Top left: Modern Human (Europe). Top right: Modern Human (Africa). Bottom left: Gibraltar Neanderthal, Forbes Quarry. Bottom right: Broken Hiil Skull, Zambia

Laboratory in the Darwin Centre
Scientist working in a laboratory in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Oliver Crimmen with fish specimen
Photograph of Oliver Crimmen, a curator at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is a Cypselurus bahiensis, four winged flying fish from the North Atlantic

Scientist working with butterfly specimen
Entomologist opening butterflys wings after relaxing ready to be placed into a specimen drawer. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Preliminary flourine test of the Piltdown remains in 1949
Dr Kenneth Oakley discussing with Mr L. E. Parsons (right) where the mandible of Piltdown man could be sampled with the least risk of damage

Scientist working with fish specimen
Tissues of a fish specimen being fixed in formalin by zoologist

Vicki Noble with botanical specimen
Vicki Noble a curator of higher plants in the Botany Department at The Natural History Museum, London

Scientist at work in the Darwin Centre
A stranded harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, is examined to establish its age, diet, the number of parasites it bears, and the likely cause of death

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