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Description: | Consists of a palaeontology collection of over 500,000 fossils of which over 1,400 are types, 4,000 figured, and many thousands cited and are probably second only to the national collections in the Natural History Museum. A few specimens of Edward Lhwyd, but main collections are of William Buckland, John Phillips, Sir Charles Lyell, T. and C.F.B. Hawkins, R.B.Grindrod, Miss E. Philpot, W.J. Arkell, J. Parker of Oxford and E.A. Walford of Banbury. Particular strengths are Lower Palaeozoic shelly faunas, Yorkshire Carboniferous, Jurassic vertebrates and invertebrates, Cretaceous invertebrates, Tertiary molluscs, Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates and the 'Red Lady of Paviland'.
Recent additions include c.50,000 invertebrate specimens from the Cretaceous of South Africa and France; a unique soft-bodied fauna from the Silurian of the Welsh Borderland; arthropod material from the Cambro-Silurian of the UK, Scandinavia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, N America and China; an essentially complete skeleton of the marine reptile Peloneustes from the Jurassic of Oxfordshire; and 10,000 Jurassic specimens from the M40 motorway excavations.
The Arkell Library, from the bequest of W.J. Arkell, has about 4,050 titles, including 14 current journals and correspondence, manuscripts and illustrative material relating to William Smith, William Buckland, and John Phillips and L.R. Wager, W.J. Arkell, and J.M. Edmonds. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1865 270 943 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1865 270 927 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4378 | Go to resource |
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