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A history of the first hundred years of the mineral collection in the British Museum : with particular reference to the work of Charles Konig / by W. Campbell Smith.

Notes on insects, 1692 & 1695 / by Charles duBois ; edited with an introduction by L. Jessop.

Fifty years of oceanography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) / D.R.C. Kempe & H.A. Buckley.

Matthew Maty MD, FRS (1718-76) and science at the foundation of the British Museum, 1753-80 / A.E. Gunther.

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.

An introduction to the study of minerals : with a guide to the mineral gallery / by L. Fletcher.

An introduction to the study of rocks / by L. Fletcher.

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An introduction to the study of minerals : with a guide to the mineral gallery / by L. Fletcher.

An introduction to the study of rocks / by L. Fletcher.

An introduction to the study of minerals : with a guide to the mineral gallery / by L. Fletcher.