North Herts Museum (Museum Resource Centre) earth science/paleoclimate/repository STUDY NOTES: Repository of paleontological fossils. Repository comprises Botany (including plants, fungi, lichens, etc.), Conchology (shells), Entomology (including insects and other terrestrial arthropods), Lithology (rocks), Mineralogy (minerals), Osteology (bones), Palaeontology (fossils), Study skins, Taxidermy ('stuffed' specimens). The collections focus on material from N. Herts but include specimens from elsewhere in the UK. Notable are: Local chalk fossils Jurassic fossil material Birds include collections of William Twine, Dr A.H. Foster, J. Beddal-Smith, R. Marlborough-Pryor, Lord Rothschild, H.A. Course and others. Many are cited in works such as A History of British Birds (1843-1885) by W. Yarrell. The collection contains a single specimen of the Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush from N. Herts and representing the first record of this species for the British Isles. There is also a N. Herts specimen of a Least Bittern, a N. American species otherwise recorded only once in the UK, but this record is contentious and is currently under review. KEYWORDS: water, rings, material, well DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Museums/Centers/Universities, paleontology CONTENT KEYWORDS: archaeology. 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.northhertsmuseum.org/ http://www.northhertsmuseum.org/ http://www.northhertsmuseum.org/ English http://www.northhertsmuseum.org/ http://www.northhertsmuseum.org/