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Museum

Natural History Museum, London

London, United Kingdom

Museum in London. 6 people in the register connected with it.

History

  1. 1903–1930
    Received Miocene Echinodermata and fossil Mammalia from Cyprus caves from Dorothea Bate in 1903-11 and Pliocene Mollusca from Cyprus from Rupert Gunnis in 1929-30.

    R. J. Cleevely (1983). World palaeontological collections : [an index of collectors]

  2. 1925
    In May 1925 the Natural History Museum bought seven fragmentary Elephas molars from the Athna well from George B. Palma.

    Annie Caubet, Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, Volume 44, 2014, p. 412

People

6 people

Staff and members · 2

Donors and lenders · 4

Objects

Mentioned in

3 mentions
  • People · 2listed under People

Sources

  1. 1.Alan H. Simmons et al. (2002). Faunal Extinction in an Island Society: Pygmy Hippopotamus Hunters of Cyprus. p. 1. Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
  2. 2.Alan H. Simmons; Katelyn DiBenedetto (2014). Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean. p. 134.
  3. 3.R. J. Cleevely (1983). World palaeontological collections : [an index of collectors].
  4. 4.Annie Caubet, Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). “Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes, Volume 44, 2014”.

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