The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London
The Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) consists of 1665 single-taxon slides housing 23 897 individuals from 203 sites in all the major ocean basins, as well as a vast research library of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photomicrogra...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:413908 2023-07-30T04:06:25+02:00 The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London Rillo, Marina C. Whittaker, John Ezard, Thomas H. G. Purvis, Andy Henderson, Andrew S. Stukins, Stephen Giles Miller, C. 2017-07-01 text https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413908/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413908/1/191.full.pdf en English eng https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413908/1/191.full.pdf Rillo, Marina C., Whittaker, John, Ezard, Thomas H. G., Purvis, Andy, Henderson, Andrew S., Stukins, Stephen and Giles Miller, C. (2017) The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 36 (2), 191-194. (doi:10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020>). cc_by_4 Article PeerReviewed 2017 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020 2023-07-09T22:17:38Z The Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) consists of 1665 single-taxon slides housing 23 897 individuals from 203 sites in all the major ocean basins, as well as a vast research library of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photomicrographs. Buckley picked the material from the NHMUK Ocean-Bottom Deposit Collection and also from fresh tow samples. However, his collection remains largely unused as he was discouraged by his managers in the Mineralogy Department from working on or publicizing the collection. Nevertheless, Buckley published pioneering papers on isotopic interpretation of oceanographic and climatic change and was one of the first workers to investigate foraminiferal wall structure using the SEM technique. Details of the collection and images of each slide are available via the NHMUK Data Portal (http://dx.doi.org/10.5519/0035055). The Buckley Collection and its associated Ocean-Bottom Deposit Collection have great potential for taxon-specific studies as well as geochemical work, and both collections are available on request. Article in Journal/Newspaper Planktonic foraminifera University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Buckley ENVELOPE(163.933,163.933,-84.967,-84.967) Journal of Micropalaeontology jmpaleo2016-020 |
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The Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) consists of 1665 single-taxon slides housing 23 897 individuals from 203 sites in all the major ocean basins, as well as a vast research library of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photomicrographs. Buckley picked the material from the NHMUK Ocean-Bottom Deposit Collection and also from fresh tow samples. However, his collection remains largely unused as he was discouraged by his managers in the Mineralogy Department from working on or publicizing the collection. Nevertheless, Buckley published pioneering papers on isotopic interpretation of oceanographic and climatic change and was one of the first workers to investigate foraminiferal wall structure using the SEM technique. Details of the collection and images of each slide are available via the NHMUK Data Portal (http://dx.doi.org/10.5519/0035055). The Buckley Collection and its associated Ocean-Bottom Deposit Collection have great potential for taxon-specific studies as well as geochemical work, and both collections are available on request. |
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Rillo, Marina C. Whittaker, John Ezard, Thomas H. G. Purvis, Andy Henderson, Andrew S. Stukins, Stephen Giles Miller, C. The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London |
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https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413908/1/191.full.pdf Rillo, Marina C., Whittaker, John, Ezard, Thomas H. G., Purvis, Andy, Henderson, Andrew S., Stukins, Stephen and Giles Miller, C. (2017) The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 36 (2), 191-194. (doi:10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020>). |
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