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British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
A major scientific department behind many classic zoology catalogues and museum guides, this group helped document animal life on a huge scale. Its publications reflect the British Museum's long role in collecting, classifying, and studying specimens from around the world.
1 Audiobook
A guide to the shell and starfish galleries : (Mollusca, Polyzoa, Brachiopoda, Tunicata, Echinoderma, and Worms)
by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, F. J. (Francis Jeffrey) Bell, R. (Randolph) Kirkpatrick, E. A. (Edgar Albert) Smith
About the author
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology was a corporate author rather than an individual writer. It belonged to the institution now known as the Natural History Museum, London, which for many years was formally part of the British Museum and continued to use the name British Museum (Natural History) until 1992.
The department was responsible for zoological research and for producing a large body of reference works, catalogues, and gallery guides. Library records and bibliographic listings connect it with publications on birds, fishes, reptiles, mammals, insects, and other animal groups, including multi-volume catalogues that supported both museum visitors and specialist researchers.
That background helps explain the tone of its books: practical, systematic, and deeply rooted in specimen-based science. Today, the museum's zoology collections remain one of the world's major animal collections, carrying forward the same broad mission of documenting biodiversity.