Keeper of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum
The Keeper of Palaeontology is a palaeontological academic position within the Natural History Museum, London. The Keeper of Palaeontology serves as the Head of the Department of Palaeontology. Between 1813 and 1956 the department was known as the Department of Geology, and the head of the department as the Keeper of Geology.[1]
Keepers of Geology
- Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig 1813–1851
- George Robert Waterhouse 1851–1880
- Henry Woodward 1880–1901
- Arthur Smith Woodward 1901–1924
- Francis Arthur Bather 1924–1928
- William Dickson Lang 1928–1938
- Wilfred Norman Edwards 1938–1955
- Errol Ivor White 1955–1956
Keepers of Palaeontology
- Errol Ivor White 1956–1966
- Harold William Ball 1966–1986
- Leonard Robert Morrison Cocks 1986–1998
- Stephen Kenneth Donovan 1998–2002
- Norman MacLeod 2002–present
gollark: Well, I guess we carefully attain another GM
gollark: We have 4 rocks, right?
gollark: I take the rock, we share the money again, and I add the corpse to our corpse pile for sale.
gollark: Well, we swordify the GM#1 then.
gollark: I see.
References
- "Natural History Museum Archive Catalogue". Nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
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