Rampant Scotland Directory
Listing of all Scottish Museums - While many of the Museums in Scotland are concentrated in Edinburgh and Glasgow you will find links here to collections around the whole of Scotland. Of course, there is a separate section of this Directory devoted to History.
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National Museums Of Scotland
(NMS) - Collections and Research - Mollusca - Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 - NMSs Mollusca collection is the second or third largest in the UK and constitutes a worldwide reference collection, complemented by a specialised library of taxonomic and faunistic works. The collections are divided into dry shell material and wet preserved material, each of which is subdivided into British and exotic collections. All these are arranged in systematic order but a number of historic shell collections are kept separately, as is a collection of molluscan radulae and a small collection of shell artefacts, many of which are on public display.

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Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow - Mollusca - Of the Hunterian's shells, the most historically important material is William Hunter's own shell collection. When Hunter bequeathed his collection to Glasgow University, he had instructed his trustees to draw up lists of the specimens. Within the Zoology material, this was done only for the shells and the insects. The Trustees Catalogue of the Shells is a seventy-five page manuscript listing 1,855 mollusc species, numbering some thousands of specimens.

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