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• Collection Highlights
  • Making Maps - George Bellas Greenough's mapping of the British Isles
    • Introducing Mr Greenough
    • Beginnings of the map
    • Crowdsourcing
    • William Smith
    • Neele's Nightmare
    • Mission Accomplished
    • Second Time Around
    • History rewritten
    • Scotland
    • Ireland
    • Acknowledgements and bibliography
  • Monster Soup - Water Supply to the Metropolis
    • Water Monopoly
    • 1828 Royal Commission
    • The Blue Plague
    • Artesian Wells
    • Strata under London
    • 1852 Metropolis Water Act
    • Bibliography and sources
  • Brixham Cave and the Antiquity of Man
    • William Buckland & the Red Lady of Paviland
    • William Pengelly and Brixham Cave
    • Joseph Prestwich and the Valley of the Somme
    • John Evans and the Hoxne hand axes
    • Bibliography
  • The Three (Thames) Tunnels
  • Mary Anning and the Geological Society
    • Early years and first discoveries, 1799-1819
      • Temnodontosaurus platyodon, found 1811-1812
      • Proteosaurus, found 1818
    • Reconstruction of Life, 1819-1824
      • Reconstructing a new animal
      • Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, found 1823
    • Geologising with Mary Anning, 1825-1829
      • Roderick Murchison's account of meeting Mary Anning, 1825
      • Letter to Charlotte Murchison from Mary Anning, 1829
    • Pterosaurs, coprolites and sepia, 1824-1829
      • Dimorphodon macronyx, found 1828
      • Coprolites, recognised 1824
      • Fossil sepia, described 1829
    • The 'fish with curling iron eyes', 1829
    • A 'lady like' find, 1830-1831
    • Sea Dragons, 1832-1834
    • Later years and friendships
      • Duria Antiquior, 1830
      • Final Years and memorials
    • Bibliography
      • "On the supposed frontal spines of the genus Hybodus" (1839)
      • Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
      • William Bullock's Egyptian Museum
      • William Willoughby Cole (1807-1886), 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
      • William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857)
      • Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889)
      • Everard Home (1756-1832)
  • Women and Geology in the 19th Century
  • 'Beschreibung des kolossalen Ichthyosaurus trigonodon' (1854)
  • 'Conversations with Little Geologists on the Six Days of Creation' (1878)
  • Lithographiae Wirceburgensis (1726)
• Library Events
• Library Strategy 2017 - 2026
• 2020 Library review