Some notable geological collections in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
Our online catalogue, containing all individual records so far transferred to computer, can be searched at:
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk
Here are some retrieved sets from the catalogue:
- Robert Kidston - fossil plants NB None of his 3400+ thin sections online yet
- Emily Dix - fossil plants
- John Walton - fossil plants
- Matthew Forster Heddle minerals
- Alexander Thoms minerals
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- Thomas Brown of Lanfine and Waterhaughs minerals
- Frederick Eck - minerals, gemstones etc
- Frank Rutley - minerals (of "Rutley's elements of mineralogy" fame)
- James "Paraffin" Young - minerals
- Prof. JW Gregory - rocks, fossils and minerals
- Alfred Leeds - Oxford Clay reptiles etc
- Wintour Frederick Gwinnell fossils
- James Thomas Day fossils
- Gideon Mantell fossils
- George Rae fossils
- Carsten Borchgrevink - first mainland Antarctic specimens
- Douglas Mawson - Adelie Land and Kerguelen specimens
- Ernest Shackleton / James Wordie Endurance expedition - Elephant Island Rocks
- David Ferguson - South Georgia, Falklands, and Graham Land, Antarctica
- Priestley/Scott Terra Nova Expedition
- Byrd/Gould 1928-20: first flight to the south pole
- Shackleton / David - 1907 Nimrod expedition
- George Walter (GW) Tyrrell
- HMS Challenger 1872-76 - dredged sediments, bones, shells and corals etc, plus Bathybius etc
- Bernard Leake - Connemara, Canada, Australia, etc
- Robert Clark minerals from Bolivia
- Zeolite minerals
- Rocks, minerals and fossils from the Island of Mull
- Scottish gemstones
- Leadhills-Wanlockhead minerals
- Minerals from Strontian
- National Fund for Acquisitions (NFA) assisted purchases
- Specimens purchased from the James Carrick Endowment Fund
- Images from the Alex Herriot collection of geological thin sections
- Specimens from the Alaisdair Mackay collection of minerals
- Mineral specimens from the collection of Ken Attwood (mostly from the Cairngorms)