Natural History Museum

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1700-2017
Places:	London
Functions, occupations and activities:	Libraries, museums and institutes > National libraries and museums
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C18308 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O34297 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1828-1998: zoology department records	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF200-299	NRA 32710 Natural History Mus See Annual Return 2001
2	1756-1983: mineralogy department records	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF	NRA 32747 Natural
3	1827-1992: botany department records	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF400-499	NRA 33249 Natural History Mus See Annual Return 2001
4	c1960-1989: palaeontology department records	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF/PAL	See Annual Return 2001
5	1838-1970: trustees and directorate papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF900-09 930-39	NRA 33921 Natural
6	c1951-80: polychaete research group corresp and papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives		See Annual Return 2001
7	19th Century: China Collection: 39 watercolour drawings by native artists of Chinese plants, reptiles, fish and birds, undated but probably early nineteenth century	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS CHI	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
8	19th Century: Japan Collection: 200 watercolour drawings on silk, depicting snails, worms, amphibians and reptiles, by a Japanese artist	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	L MSS JAP	See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
9	18th-20th Century: Handwriting Collection, containing examples of the handwriting of more than 3500 naturalists of the eighteen, nineteen and twentieth centuries	Natural History Museum Library and Archives		See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
10	1950-1999: zoology department additional records, parasitic worms section corresp	Natural History Museum Library and Archives		See Annual Return 2004
11	1956-1995: palaeontology department additional records, Formanifera secton corresp	Natural History Museum Library and Archives		See Annual Return 2004
12	1920-1939: entomology department records, Lepidoptera section corresp of George Bisset	Natural History Museum Library and Archives		See Annual Return 2004
13	1930-2002: collection of chromosome photographs, Diptera photographs, correspondence and notes by Magda Charalambous	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2016/35	See Annual Return 2016
14	1992-2000: mineralogy department annual reports, departmental plans, enquiries	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2016/25	See Annual Return 2016
15	2013-2015: board of trustees and executive board meetings, annual trustee dinner invitations and menu cards	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2016/59	See Annual Return 2016
16	1980-2016: files rel to the set up and running of the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (CAHR), Museum Lives files and audio tapes, CAHR partnership and promotional materials and Lady Edith Blake entomology library project	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2016/61	See Annual Return 2016
17	1998-2017: old intranet forum (digital resource)	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2017/06
18	2017: Audit and Risk Committee papers (digital resource)	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2017/09 and 2017/18
19	2007: recordings of the relocation of the Cranbourne meteorite	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2017/01
20	1976-1987: user guides and visitor surveys	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2017/14
21	2020: Covid-19 archive	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2020/5	See Annual Return 2020
22	1985: Division of Higher Vertebrates: birds and mammals annual report	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF ZOO/209/72	See Annual Return 2020
23	2020: Trustees Audit Committee: minutes and papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	DF TRU/901/2/77	See Annual Return 2020
24	2020-2021: Trustees Audit and Risk Committee: papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2021/4	See Annual Return 2021
25	2014-2021: letters from the Royal Household	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2021/13	See Annual Return 2021
26	c1980: Anthropology letters	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2021/15	See Annual Return 2021
27	1798-2012: fossil fish assorted papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2021/19	See Annual Return 2021
28	1901-1989: Bryozoa correspondence and assorted papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2022/2	See Annual Return 2022
29	1919-2007: Brachiopod correspondence and assorted papers	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2022/10	See Annual Return 2022
30	1962-1991: Earth Sciences Reptiles research and correspondence	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2022/26	See Annual Return 2022
31	1966-2010: entomological artwork archive of David Measures (1937-2011), natural history artist	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	LIB 2023/01	See Annual Return 2023
32	1989-1994: Minerology Management Group: meeting agendas, minutes, action points	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2023/38	See Annual Return 2023
33	1884-1957: Mollusca donation records and index museum register	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2023/21	See Annual Return 2023
34	1937-2003: Life Sciences Invertebrates: loan books and consultancy final reports	Natural History Museum Library and Archives	2023/26	See Annual Return 2023