The Natural Sciences collections are comprehensive in their coverage of the natural world, although Botany is only represented by fossil plants. The collections are global in terms of their content and most of the several million specimens held originate from efforts to better understand the Natural World.

The collections are divided into four sections. If you have any requirements to examine any of our specimens you should contact the relevant Principal Curator in the first instance.

Dr Nick Fraser: Keeper of Natural Sciences 

Responsible for: the Natural Sciences department, its staff, collections and projects.
Research interests/expertise: Early Mesozoic terrestrial and marine ecosystems; phylogeny and systematics of Rhynchocephalia and Protorosauria; global faunal and floral change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. 
Email: nick.fraser@nms.ac.uk

You can find out more about Dr Nick Fraser here.