These pages are maintained by Dr. John Faithfull - Curator in Geology. They are not part of the official Web pages of the Hunterian Museum - any material here is entirely my own responsibility. Some of these pages may be of professional interest to geologists, mineral collectors or museum persons. Others may not be of interest to anybody. Some bits of these pages don't work at all yet - apologies for any disappointment this causes.
 
 

     INCA and museum documentation

• INCA - information on the Hunterian Museum and Gallery's computer catalogue
• HUG - or how to get rid of your documentation backlog in the twinkling of an eye
• The curation of PhD and other research collections    (RTF document)
• STORE - a cheap'n'cheerful program for stocktaking or surveying stores.
• Polyquery - a configurable cross-site searching tool, providing one-stop searching across several Scottish museum catalogues

• Discovering Antarctica Notes
  
• Images of our 1674 Chinese world map (Kunyu Quantu) by Ferdinand Verbiest.
  
• The Hunterian mineral collections
• Leadhills/Wanlockhead minerals
• Greenockite!
• Scottish (especially Arran) pitchstones
• The High Possil meteorite
• Meteorites in the Hunterian Museum
• Collecting and conservation
• Selected major geological collections in the Hunterian Museum

• Optical Mineralogy notes

• The quest for the Scottish diamond
• Otavite from Bishopton
• a kimberlitic dyke not far from here
• Ross of Mull xenolithic dyke
• metamict oxide minerals in the Ballater granite

• Poems etc.. [eh??]
• Testing a hypothesis about  the origin of spectacles
• Some favourite pots
• The true nature of the digital world

museum data  on-line (datasets now updated regularly)

• test search Geology INCA data (no images)
• test search  Hunterian Art Gallery INCA data (no images)
• test search Numismatic INCA data (no images)
• assisted test search of Alfred Leeds fossil material in the INCA Geology database(no images)
• search a test set of our Nursing collection INCA data (with images)
• test search our HUG data

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