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Description: | Geology totals around 30,000 specimens and includes The Sir Archibald Geikie collection of field notebooks, specimens, photographs, letter copybooks, water-colours and other memorabilia. Sir Archibald Geikie was Director of the British Geological Survey and the most eminent British geologist between 1880 and 1900. There are nearly 5,000 minerals, with examples of all the major mineral and crystal groups from British as well as foreign localities. The relatively small collection of rocks contains a wide variety of rock types, mostly British, but with a few examples from foreign localities. The fossil collection contains representative specimens of all the major animal and plant groups from each stratigraphic period. There are a few rare and unusual specimens. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 78 High Street
Haslemere
Surrey,
GU27 2LA | FAX: | 01428 645234 | Telephone: | 01428 642112 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5715 | Go to resource |
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