The General and Zoology Libraries comprise three collections of literature.

• The General Library collection embraces any multidisciplinary subjects including biodiversity, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, curation, biographies of naturalists, and general reference materials. There are also atlases, gazetteers, and Ordnance Survey and topographical sheet maps, abstracting publications and CD-ROMs.

• The Zoology Library collections contains literature on all groups of living animals except arachnids and insects.

• The Tring Library is the Museum's principle source for avian literature. Additionally, there are many general natural history and travel works published before 1940 including some not represented in the holdings at South Kensington. The Tring collections are distributed in two libraries - all general natural history, and travel and ornithological monographs pre- 1938 in the Rothschild Library and all ornithological journals and post- 1938 monographs in the Ornithological library.

In total these libraries hold 570,000 bound volumes, over 60,000 original drawings, 20,000 photographs and take 5,000 current serials titles.

You can search the online catalogue via telnet.

General and Zoology enquiries

You can either contact:

Carol Gokce (General Library)
Tel: +44 (0)171 938 9191/8726
Fax: +44 (0)171 938 9290


Ann Datta (Zoology Library)
Tel: +44 (0)171 938 9379
Fax: +44 (0)171 938 9290


The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK

Or E-Mail your enquires to the library: genlib@nhm.ac.uk

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