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Those attending the Palaeontological Association Christmas Meeting at Leicester University, U.K.,(December 14th - 17th, 2003) may like to know that the headquarters and collections of the British Geological Survey are just over fourty minutes away by car, at Keyworth, Nottingham. The site houses most of the collections formerly in the Geological Museum, South Kensington. The combined 'Museum', 'Survey' and borehole collections are the single largest collection of British fossils. The collections are open from 08:30 to 17:00, Monday to Friday, by prior appointment. Access for academic study is usually free. Highlights of the collections include: * The Geological Museum Collection Over 250,000 specimens, including much type, figured and cited material. It includes the Geological Society of London Collection of British fossils and important material collected by, amongst many others: G Bomford W Buckland S S Buckman W D Conybeare C G Danford T Davidson E J Garwood E Gray G A Mantell R W Kidston F McCoy R I Murchison R Owen J W Salter J Sowerby J de C Sowerby H A Wyatt-Edgell * The Survey Collection of British fossils - (almost 3,000,000 specimens) underpins most BGS maps and is the foremost locality based collection of British fossils. * The National Borehole Collection - Almost 200km of drillcore; 600,000 individual registered specimens (the majority with macrofossils) and 1,500,000 samples of cuttings - from over 15,000 boreholes. Most are available for subsampling for microfossils, mineralogy, petrology & geochemistry. * The Survey Micropalaeontological Collection - Contains over 250,000 slides, including foraminifera, ostracods, conodonts, chitinozoa, acritarchs, spores & pollen. Many type, figured and cited specimens. * WWW Resources [ http://www.bgs.ac.uk/home.html ] Ø Geoscience Data Index - a map based index of data [ http://www.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html ] Ø Downloadable reports, e.g. Holostrat & Stratigraphic framework [ http://www.bgs.ac.uk/reference/reports/home.html ] Ø Geolib library catalogue [ http://geolib.bgs.ac.uk/ ] The geological materials collections are a constituent part of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC's) National Geoscience Data Centre. For further information, contact the Chief Curator: Dr Mike Howe. ______________________________ Dr Mike Howe Chief Curator British Geological Survey Keyworth, NOTTINGHAM. U.K. NG12 5GG Email:mhowe@bgs.ac.uk Tel: 0115 9363105 Fax: 0115 9363200 www.bgs.ac.uk ______________________________ ********************************************************************* This e-mail message, and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. If this message was not addressed to you, you have received it in error and any copying, distribution or other use of any part of it is strictly prohibited. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of the British Geological Survey. The security of e-mail communication cannot be guaranteed and the BGS accepts no liability for claims arising as a result of the use of this medium to transmit messages from or to the BGS. . http://www.bgs.ac.uk *********************************************************************
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