General guide with plans and views of the building.

  • British Museum (Natural History)
Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: General guide with plans and views of the building. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    collection of Brachiopoda, the types of Sowerby’s “ Mineral Conchology,” and lastly, but not least in interest, specimens from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, which formed part of the nucleus of the British Museum, In the wall-cases on the west side of this gallery is exhibited British a stratigraphical collection, showing a series of rock-specimens, stratigraphi- Ccii collection. Fig. 57.—A Trilobite, from the Lower Cambrian of Shropshire. often with their included fossil remains, representing the various geological formations of the British Isles ; they are arranged in the order of their sequence in time, commencing near the entrance door with the most recent, and gradually passing- down to the most ancient fossil-bearing strata. Along the top of the case is displayed a running section of all the water-formed