| Description | Diazo and 35mm microfilm copies of the Geological Society Museum catalogues 'Foreign Collections', initially compiled by Leonard Horner, c.1862. The two volumes covered are:
1) 'Foreign Collections-North & South America, West Indies, Australasia, Islands of the Pacific'
2) 'Register of Foreign Collections-Europe, Asia and Africa'. Note: towards the back of the volume are a number of other listings: manuscript register of additional specimens, listed stratigraphically, [?1870s] (pp88-148); manuscript catalogue of 40 fossils characteristic of the diverse terrains of the Alps and catalogue of 98 fossils from the gault of Perte-du-Rhône possibly by Eugène Renevier, Comptoir d'Histoire Naturelle a Geneve, [?1850s] (pp149-154); typescript list of locations and transfers of Geological Society Museum specimens at the NHM, [?1920s] (pp155-164).
The entries are arranged geographically, then stratigraphically. Typical information recorded: Description of specimen; donor; Museum location. Additional entries up to c.1902. |
| Administrative History | Initially compiled by Leonard Horner, c.1862, as a result of the belief that the largely neglected Foreign Collections were the most important - the British Collections believed to be duplicated by the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street. |