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Description: | A large collection of natural history specimens and teaching materials acquired by Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) for his museum and classes at University College, Dundee and used in his research for the seminal textbook On Growth and Form (1917). The collection includes mounted specimens, skeletons, skulls, skins, heads and other body parts, microscope slides, spirit specimens, teaching charts and models. Some of the specimens were exchanges from other museums, some came from zoos and animal importers, some from D'Arcy's own expeditions and those of his assistants. Other D'Arcy Thompson material exists at the Bell Pettigrew Museum (University of St Andrews), National Museums Scotland and the Natural History Museum, mostly acquired when D'Arcy's original museum in Dundee was broken up in the 1950s. | Format: | mounted specimens stuffed animals skulls models shells skeletons spirit specimens fossils teaching charts dried specimens skins | Subjects: | Education Zoology | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | D'Arcy Thompson | Contributor: | Accessioned by Museum Services from 1995 | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD073 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | mounted specimens stuffed animals skulls models shells skeletons spirit specimens fossils teaching charts dried specimens skins |
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