Guide to the British Museum (Natural History): Collections of the Palaeontology Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

The set of proofs which has some ms. alterations, illustrations and 2 maps. (File)

Letters and invoices concerning preparations for publication, 1913 - 1914 (File)

Correspondents include: A.C. Seward (Cambridge), Frank Debenham (Cambridge), C.E. Fagan (British Museum (Natural History). (41p.)

Chelonechinus suvae from soap stone of Viti Levu, Fiji, n.d. (File)

140p. and 4p. misc. notes...

Brady (Brighton) to Etheridge (British Museum (Natural History), 22 January 1887 (File)

Re work on minute shells from Solomon Islands. (3p.)

A. Gunther (British Museum (Natural History) to H. Woodward (British Museum (Natural History), 23 February 1883 (File)

Transferring fossil specimens Rhabelophyllia from NW Australia to Geology Dept. (1p.)

Correspondence, 1872-12-23; 1873-01-10 (File)

Includes:23 December 1872, Julius Haast (Christchurch) to R. Owen...

An account of fossils from Australia presented to Museum of Practical Geology by Henry Challoner of Burra Burra mines (1p.), 17 September 1868 (File)

A series of Tertiary shells from Muddy Creek, Victoria presented by Government Inspector of Schools, Hamilton (9p.), 20 March 1886 (File A)

J.Dennant (Castlemaine) to Woodward, 19 February 1889 (File B)

Forwarding list of corrected names to fossils sent to British Museum (Natural History) in 1885. (5p.)

List of the Egyptian Survey Collection of fossil corals and achinoids taken by Professor J.W. Gregory from the Natural History Museum, London, to the University of Melbourne (8p.), 1900 (File)

The geology of a portion of West Kimberley, North West Australia, 1926 (File)

(15p. (ms.) 2 notes re provinence.

Index to Collection from Australia, New Zealand, Pacific. (File ff. 77-100)

(Specimens donated by Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian Agricultural Society, J.B. Jukes, Professor Huxley).

3 lists of Dinornis bones (8p.), 1867 (File B)

Measurements of Dinornis bones obtained from a swamp at Glenmark by Haast. (14p.), [n.d.] (File C)

6 photographs of Dinornis skull and notes by Haast (2p.), 6 December 1869 (File D)

C.J. Nicoloy (Freemantle) to R. Scott, 13 February 1886 (File A)

Re Hardman collection sent to London for London, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, and sending a fossil crayfish. (2p.)

List of fossils from Western Australia. (1p.), 2 December 1886 (File B)

Descriptive list of collection by A.P. Harvey (British Museum (Natural History)), 16 May 1964 (File f.1)

John L. Worthington (Queenstown, New Zealand) to father, 24 December 1868 (File ff.9-14)

Re Moa bones - problems of sending via agents in Dunedin; Maori traditions re Moa; finding the bones.

J.L. Worthington (Lowestoft) to Richards: re Moa bones., 30 September (n.y.) (File ff.21)

Correspondence between J. Manwaring August 1963 Baines (Hastings) and E.I. White (British Museum (Natural History)), December 1962-29 (File ff.22-267)

Re presenting Moa and Dodo bones.

List of Moa bones presented to British Museum (Natural History), 14 December 1962 (File f.28)

Correspondence between Baines and White re presenting Moa and Dodo bones, 27 March 1962 - 29 March 1962 (File ff.29-30)

British Museum (Natural History) notice: re Moa bones (File f.31)

Note and label: re fossil ammonite from New Caledonia, (1p.), 1886 (File)

Note and label, 1885 (File)

Re bivalves from permo-carboniferons obtained when excavating for new fort, opposite Hobart Tasmania. (1p.)

Catalogue of geological specimens [from Tasmania] for inspection of Koenig Esq., British Museum (2p.), [1837] (File)

Notes on Lumsden collection of Tertiary fossils from Labuan, Borneo and notes on the geology of Labuan by R. Etheridge Jnr. (8p.), [1880?] (File)

Mantell (London) to [unknown], 5 September 1849 (File)

Re fossil bird; news of Walter in New Zealand and his discoveries. (2p.)

List of silurian fossils from Victoria sent by the National Museum in exchange to British Museum (Natural History) (2p.), 22 October 1908 (File)

Mitchell (Sydney) to Dr. Fitton, 14 October 1830 (File)

Sending fossil bones from limestone cave; geology of New South Wales. (8p.)

Colonel H. Dumooresq (New South Wales) to Dr. Fitton, 22 February 1831 (File)

Re fossils found in caves near Wellington Valley by Dr. Henderson; news of Sturt's expedition. (8p.)

Thomas Stapleton (London) to Dr. Fitton: re arrival of cases from Sydney (1p.), 31 March 1831 (File)

William Clift (London) to W. Lonsdale: re Mitchell's specimens (1p.), 29 July 1831 (File)

Correspondence re fossils from Russell, NZ. (5p.), 2 December 1886 - 4 December 1886 (File)

Includes:...

List of Tertiary Mollusca from New Zealand presented by J. Allan Thomson (1p.), 4 October 1912 (File)

Notes on boulders collected in West Central Borneo by GAF Molengraaf, (6p.), 1897 - 1901 (File)

Nicholson (Aberdeen) to Woodward: re stromatoporoids from Western Australia (4p.), 1889-10-27; 1889-11-16 (File)

Report on fossil plants collected by members of Captain Scott's second Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913), 1914 (File A)

(Pagination erratic, 96p.) Typescript with ms. alterations.

Photographs and drawings of Antarctic fossil plants. 12 items, 1914 (File B)

Correspondence concerning the remains of moa found at Queenstown and purchased by H.L. Squires, 20 September 1881 - 19 July 1882 (File)

Correspondents include A. Gunther (British Museum), W.H. Squires (Clevedon); John Sanderson and Co.(Melbourne); Henry Woodward (British Museum (Natural History)); Mary Squires (Hereford). 27p...

I.A. Stigand (Solo, Java): re fossils collected in East Borneo, 10 March 1906 (File)

British Museum (Natural History), note re fossils (3p.) (File)

Notes, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings: re bones of Diprotodon australis sent to the British Museum (Natural History) by the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia., 4 March 1893 - 22 November 1906 (File)

Correspondents include: Henry Hurst (Callabonna sheep station); John Kinmont (Edinburgh); E.C. Stirling (Adelaide); A Zietz (Adelaide). (c. 40p.)

13 photographs of assembled limbs and excavations of the bones at Lake Mulligan (File)

List of Paleozoic and Tertiary Mollusca from Tasmania (2p.), c.1850 (File)

Teale (Purley) to Dr. Lang (British Museum (Natural History), 11 December 1925 (File)

With list of his collection of Australian fossils (with locations) that he wishes to present to the museum. (3p.)

Lang (British Museum (Natural History) to Bather (British Museum (Natural History), 20 November 1925 (File)

Re accepting the collection. (2p.)

On the geology of Central Sumatra, 10 March 1875 (File A)

Ms. draft with ms. Alterations. (11p.)

Letters to Professor T. Rupert Jones concerning the paper, 1874 - 1881 (File B)

From:...

Wilkins (London) to Dr. Bather (British Museum (Natural History): sending map and off print, 10 September 1925 (File 1))

Queensland Four mile maps sheet 15A (File 2))

Annotated by Wilkins to show where fossils were collected.

H.C. Richards and C. Hedley. A geological reconnaisance in North Queensland (File 3))

Photographs of caves near Flinders River where fossils were found (File 4-9))

Annotated on back by Wilkins

Young (Meredith) to R. Buller Newton with list of fossils he is sending to the Museum (3p.), 20 January 1916 (File)