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Description: | -The Natural History collections comprise a comprehensive collection of 405 mainly mounted British birds and common mammals; 870 birds eggs with little data; 9,000 British Lepidoptera; 35 osteology specimens, 10 fish spirit speciemnes; 110 timber samples; 5,000 molluscs; wax models; 40 polyzoa mounted on sheets and 200 herbarium specimens of seaweeds from Hartlepool(1890s) and plants from Northern England (1950s).e.g. Miss H Withy bequeathed Avian mounts; Miss R Withy donated Marine Algae and Marine and Freshwater Mollusca and their father Henry also donated marine algae and molluscs all in 1920. Mr E Wilson collected 1950-1960 British Birds Eggs and donated in 1963. West Haven Marine Observatory, purchased from in Oct 1973 Pisces, Mollusca and Crustacea. Capt. D Wiley donated Birds eggs world wide in March 1928. Mrs Weatherall donated 9 cases of Bird mounts in ? Mr Tozer donated minerals and fossils in 1969; Mrs M Tighe donated world wide mammal mounts in March 1939; Mr JT Taylor donated marine algae and coelentrates in 1920: Sunderland Museum donated Bird mounts, Bird eggs and Japanese Lepidoptera in 1909 and 1920; Mr Salmon bequeathed British Birds eggs in 1972; Mr H arold Motherdale donated British Birds Eggs in 1928; Mr John O Mennear donated minerals, rocks and fossils in 1986; Mr P Kitchen purchased from British Lepidopters and Coleoptera in 1922; Maj TA Jobson donated British Birds Eggs in 1922; Mt Iveson donated British Birds eggs in Jan 1953; Mt Sidney Hogg donated 21 mounted birds in 1920; Mr Hall donated British Lepidoptera and ritish birds eggs in Sept 1933; Mr Groves donated British birds mounts in Feb 1930; Sir William Creswell Grey donated 283 cases and 51 mounts of bids world wide in 1921, 1926 and 1930; Mrs M Gibb donated British marine and freshwater mollusca in May 1933; Mr R Fawcett donated Mollusca in June 1928; Col. H Doughty donated British bird mounts, foreign Bird eggs, and mounted British mammals in May 1925; Cerebos Salt Co donated minerals July 1930; Mr Carter donated German and British insect in May 1971; Miss A Berkley donated 137 cases of mounted British birds, 18 mounts of world wide mammals,and 7 osteological specimens of world wide mammals in July 1938; Mr F Appelyard donated Porifera from Holy Island in Sept 1921;
The geology collections are local and include the Dr David Woolacott (1872-1924) minerals, rocks and fossils donated in 1920
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Maritime Avenue
Hartlepool Cleveland United Kingdom,
TS24 0XN | FAX: | 01429 523477 | Telephone: | 01429 222255 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6151 | Go to resource |
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