BMNH

BMNH Natural History Museum (1992–)

• Formerly known as the British Museum (Natural History) or British Museum of Natural History
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• Location: Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
• Abbreviated: B.M.(N.H.), BMNH, or BM.
• Acquired and collections

Cuming Museum, natural history collection. NOTE: Kept separate, lectotype numbers use standard BMNH prefixes

Geological Museum, London, in 1986

HMS Challenger types are housed here

Reigen Collection of Mazatlan Mollusca, in 1857

• Acronyms used:

BM (Index Herbarium Code)

NHM (Natural History Museum)

NHML (Natural History Museum, London)

NHMUK (Natural History Museum UK)

• Prefixes used

In.

IC

• Associated publications

Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology

Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology

Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), zoology

Type specimen catalogs

• Brock, P.D., Marshall, J.A., Beccaloni, G. & Harman, A.J.E. 2016. The types of Phasmida in the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Zootaxa 4179(2): 151–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.2.1. Reference page. 
• Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the Reigen Collection of Mazatlan Mollusca in the British Museum. Oberlin Press. Google Books Reference page. 
• Harding, J.P. 1962. Darwin's type specimens of varieties of Balanus amphitrite. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 9: 273–296. BHL. Reference page. 
• Kay, E.A. 1965. Marine molluscs in the Cuming collection, British Museum (Natural History) described by William Harper Pease. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, Supplement 1: 1–96, 14 pl. BHL. Reference page. 

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