Scientist Collection (page 18)

Thomas Henry Tizard
Natigating Lieutenant: Nattative: Meteorological Observations, on board HMS Challenger during the expedition of 1872-1876

John Murray, 1895
Naturalist on board HMS Challenger during the expedition of 1872-1876. Editor of the reports: Narrative, Deep Sea Deposits, Summary of Results

Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882)
Director of the scientific staff on board HMS Challenger, during the expedition of 1872 - 1876

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1881) British born naturalist on board H.M.S. Beagle and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Group of Officers and Scientist on board Challenger
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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

Neanderthal excavation, 1998
Palaeoanthropologists from the Natural History Museum, London search for evidence of Neanderthal habitation, 1998

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. R. S. (1817-1911)
Portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, an English botanist and traveller. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

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

Collecting fossils on a field trip to Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight

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

Dr James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877)
Portrait of Dr James Scott Bowerbank, an English naturalist and palaeontologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Painting of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, by Magnus Hallman, c. 1780. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London. Linnaeus is known as the Father of Taxonomy

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

Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863-1950)
Portrait of Randolph Kirkpatrick, a British naturalist. From a photograph of the Natural History Museum Zoology Department, October 1895

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

Scientist at work
Entomologist studying beetle specimens at the Natural History Museum, London

Lyme Regis field trip, 2003
Scientists examining the Lower Jurassic, Lower Lias, Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Belemnite Marl Member) at Golden Cap, between Charmouth and Seatown, Dorset, UK

Excavations at Piltdown c. 1913
Arthur Smith Woodward and the Abbe Henri Breuil at Piltdown

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

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