Birmingham Museums Trust earth science/paleoclimate/repository STUDY NOTES: Repository of paleontological fossils. Strengths of the collection include: Entomology: British: Coeleoptera and Lepidoptera of the Midlands, including the Richard South Lepidoptera collections and Stuart Carlier collections Non-British: Lepidoptera from Papua New Guinea in the Kenrick and Dyott collections, although the types were transferred to the Natural History Museum, London. Other invertebrates There is a large mollusc collection. British: Land and freshwater molluscs collected by Overton and Deakin . Non-British: Molluscs collected by the Archer family and William Whitlock. Vertberates Ornithology: The collection of bird taxidermy, eggs and nests is significant, with Lysaght, Auden and Robert Chase being important collectors. Botany The herbarium has 50 000 specimens and well represents the West Midlands. Important collectors include J E Bagnall, T H Russell and Humphries. KEYWORDS: collections, UK DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Museums/Centers/Universities, paleontology. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. Jenkins NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce 2014-09-03 ONLINE Files online, ASCII http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections/research http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections/research http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections/research English http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections/research http://www.bmag.org.uk/collections/research