historyofgeology

historyofgeology

Bigsby Medal
Wollaston Medal
Centenary field excursion to the Lake District
‘Highbury Grove in 1846’

William Buckland (1784-1856)
Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton (1806-1881)
William Smith (1769-1839)
William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857)

Murchison Medal
Ordinary Meeting of the Geological Society
George Simmonds [Simonds] Boulger (1853-1922)
George Simmonds [Simonds] Boulger (1853-1922)

Charles Lapworth (1842-1920)
Charles Lapworth (1842-1920)
Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944)
Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869)

Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869)
Lock of William Smith’s hair
Arthur Aikin (1773–1854)
Warington Wilkinson Smyth (1817-1890)

William Allen (1770–1843)
Gideon Mantell (1790-1852)
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
William Hasledine Pepys (1775-1856)

George Bellas Greenough (1778-1855)
Richard Phillips (1778-1851)
Richard Owen (1804-1892)
William Phillips (1773-1828)

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
Vesuvius in Eruption, 1872
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1810 (night)
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1811 (day)

‘Awful changes’
Eruption of Vesuvius, 1822 (night)
Head of an ichthyosaur
Vesuvius in Eruption, 1872

‘Comparative heights of volcanic mountains…’
‘Jura Formation’
Skull of an Ichthyosaur
Footprint of a Chierotherium

‘Organic Remains’
Plesiosaurus macrocephalus (lithograph)
Skeleton of a Megatherium
Mammoth bones

Skull of Dicynodon lacerticeps
Skull of a crocodile with the eye, paddle and teeth of various ichthyosauri
Ichthyosaurus Intermedius from Lyme Regis
Polypothecia agariciformis

Quartz crystal with asbestos inclusion
‘View of the Terraces at the top of Glen Roy’
Smithsonite on fluorite
‘Curved Gneiss in Lewis’

‘View of Brochel Castle in Rasay’
Skull and jaw of Dicynodon lacerticeps
Skull of Dicynodon testudiceps
Skulls of Dicynodon

Fossil tortoise from Oeningen
Topaz crystal from Aberdeenshire
Fossil fern from the Alps
‘View of the entrance of Glen Turit and of the commencement of the Levels of Glen Roy’

Apiocrinites rotundus
‘View in Glen Roy taken near Glen Fintec’
Ammonites
Fossil horsetail from Bristol

Clathraria lyelli
Fossil cephalapoda
Fossil mollusca
Fossil mollusca

Fossil mollusca
Fossil tortoise from Oeningen
Fossil fox from Oeningen
Prehistoric tools hand tools found in Europe

Ammonites
Neolithic thumb scrapers
Ammonites
Fossil cephalapoda

Flint axes from Hoxne
Fossil bivalves
Fossil urchins
Fossil mollusca

Fossil bivalves
Fossil bivalves
Madrepore from the white chalk, Hunstanton Cliff
Study of an ammonite

Assemblage of fossil bivalves, gastropods and ammonites
Nautilus and bivalves