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An 1881 plan showing the original arrangement of the museum (link to current floor plans)The foundation of the collection was that of the Ulster doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), who allowed his significant collections to be purchased by the British Government at a price well below their market value at the time.
Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of genomic information that can be used to examine the histories of biodiversity and environmental change. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Collaborations between museums and researchers worldwide are enabling scientists to unravel ecological and evolutionary relationships such as the domestication of the ...
The holotype, NHMUK PV P41933 and NHMUK PV P41934 (an almost complete right anterior lateral plate), was discovered during the 1950s by the Iraq Petroleum Company within the 4.5 inches (11 cm) wide borehole DK 68 at a depth of 3,828 metres (12,559 ft), making it the deepest known occurrence of a fossil vertebrate to date. [3]
Subsequently, Henley passed the fossils on to the naturalist William Bullock, who put them on display in the collections of his museum in London. In 1819, Bullock's own collection was sold to the Natural History Museum in London for a price of around £47. The specimen, now cataloged as NHMUK PV R1158, is still currently housed at this museum ...
[8]: 439–441 Two years later, in 1960, he named the taxon Pliosaurus andrewsi and designated the partial skeleton (cataloged as NHMUK R3891) as the holotype of this species. [6]: 163–164 The holotype specimen is a skeleton consisting of a mandible, teeth, a complete vertebral column as well as parts of the fore and hind limbs.
NHMUK R11185 (paratype) The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow; Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum Braunschweig; Natural History Museum London Hauteravian Skull roof bones of the Acamptonectes densus holotype: GLAHM 132588: Actiosaurus gaudryi. Actiosaurus. Aegirosaurus leptospondylus. Aegirosaurus. Arthropterygius chrisorum [2 ...
The specimen, presently NHMUK PV R1034, consisted of a partial and disarticulated skeleton on a slab, lacking the skull. Buckland in 1835 also assigned a piece of jaw from the collection of Elizabeth Philpot to P. macronyx.
Thalassiodracon hawkinsii skeleton NHMUK PV OR 2020, Natural History Museum in London Incomplete specimen (NHMUK PV R45) Thalassiodracon was originally placed in the genus Plesiosaurus . It has been classified in a new genus Thalassiodracon many years later following an examination of a skull.