Professional fossil preparators at the British Museum (Natural History), 1843-1990*
Name:
ANH 2018-08.pdf
Size:
494.2Kb
Format:
PDF
Description:
Accepted/final draft post-refe ...
Name:
Graham figure 5 dorsal view.pdf
Size:
59.45Mb
Format:
PDF
Description:
Supporting information
Name:
Graham figure 5 ventral view.pdf
Size:
49.56Mb
Format:
PDF
Description:
Supporting information
Average rating
Cast your vote
You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to
this item.
When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
Star rating
Your vote was cast
Thank you for your feedback
Thank you for your feedback
Authors
Graham, MEditors
Reichenbach, HIssue date
2019-10-01Submitted date
2019-10-03Subject Terms
palaeontologyfossils
museum specimens
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Since the inception of the British Museum (Natural History) in 1881 (now the Natural History Museum, London), the collection, development and mounting of fossils for scientific study and public exhibition have been undertaken by fossil preparators. Originally known as masons, because of their rock-working skills, their roles expanded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when, at the forefront of the developing science of palaeontology, the Museum was actively obtaining fossil material from the UK and abroad to build the collections. As greater numbers of more impressive specimens were put on public display, these preparators developed new and better methods to recover and transport fossils from the field, and technical improvements, in the form of powered tools, enabled more detailed mechanical preparation to be undertaken. A recurring theme in the history of palaeontological preparation has been that sons often followed in their fathers’ footsteps in earth sciences. William and Thomas Davies, Caleb and Frank Barlow, and Louis and Robert Parsons were all father-and-son geologists and preparators.Citation
Professional fossil preparators at the British Museum (Natural History), 1843–1990 Mark R. Graham Archives of Natural History 2019 46:2, 253-264Publisher
Edinburgh University PressJournal
Archives of Natural HistoryType
Journal ArticleItem Description
This document is the author’s final accepted version of the journal article. You are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2019.0589NHM Repository
ISSN
0260-9541EISSN
1755-6260ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3366/anh.2019.0589
Scopus Count
Collections