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Description: | The Hunterian Museum holds over 120,000 rock and mineral specimens, with around 40,000 rock thin sections, as well as around 1500 cut gemstones, and 70 meteorites. The collections are among the largest and most comprehensive in Scotland, and are of national and international significance.
The mineral collections include several very important older collections including those of William Hunter (one of the few surviving 18th century mineral collections anywhere), Thomas Brown of Lanfine (Scottish and world minerals), Frederick Eck (South American, and world minerals), James "Paraffin" Young (world-wide), Frank Rutley (world-wide; the author of 'Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy'), and Alexander Thoms (mostly Scottish), plus many more.
Particular areas of strength include Leadhills-Wanlockhead minerals, Scottish Carboniferous zeolites, greenockite, old East European mining localities, old South American mining districts, Australian gold deposits, and gemstones.
The rock collections include much material resulting from the research activities of Glasgow University geologists over the past two centuries. Particular strengths include Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands; Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen; Bernard Leake's extensive Connemara rock collections, the geology of Mull, JW Gregory collections including Yunnan, Burma,Peru, and Australia, meteorites (including the High Possil meteorite which fell in Glasgow in 1804); GW Tyrrell's collections from the USSR, Iceland, and Scotland; building stones, Alex Herriot's collection of magnificent thin-sections and rocks, and a huge range of other research, teaching and display rocks from around the world.
The rock and mineral collections continue to grow in order to support the developing research and teaching needs of the University, display and public engagment. We acquire material through gifts, bequests, purchases, field collecting, and transfers of important research specimens from University projects. | Subjects: | geology petrology mineralogy | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | John Faithfull | Contributor: | Various | Date: | Various | Identifier: | C-0004 |
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