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Description: | A collection of natural history specimens and related items, mostly collected as part of the original Natural History Museum founded by Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson at University College, Dundee and continued by his successors, notably Professor AD Peacock. The museum was broken up c.1957 when the building housing it was demolished to make way for the University Tower Building, with a core collection being kept in the Biological Sciences Department. This was redisplayed in various rooms in the Biological Sciences Institute in the 1980s and re-displayed and opened to the public in 2007 as the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in the Carnelley Building. The collection includes representatives of all the major groups of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects and other marine and terrestrial invertebrates along with fossil material, shells, microscope slides, teaching charts and models, artefacts relating to Dundee's whaling industry and works of art. | Format: | skulls shells artworks dried specimens models stuffed animals mounted specimens skeletons spirit specimens fossils teaching charts skins whaling artefacts | Subjects: | Education Zoology Fine Art | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | D'Arcy Thompson, Alexander Rodger, William T Calman, AD Peacock and other collectors for the Natural History Museum of University College, Dundee / Queen's College, Dundee. A few specimens have since been added by the Biological Sciences Department and now the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. | Contributor: | Accessioned by Museum Services from 1995 | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD072 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | skulls shells artworks dried specimens models stuffed animals mounted specimens skeletons spirit specimens fossils teaching charts skins whaling artefacts |
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