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Epsom College (Natural History Museum)

Epsom College
Epsom
Surrey KT17 4QJ

01372 728862

Open: not open to the public, viewing may be possible by appointment
Size: 278 Specimens (95% fossils)

Content:
Mostly of British or worldwide origin with only a very few local examples. What remains of this collection today is not that comprehensive.

Interesting specimens include some fine crustacean fossils from the Solenhofen Limestone of Bavaria, Ordovician and Cambrian trilobites, a collection of (mostly Scottish) Old Red Sandstone fish, Carboniferous Coal Measure plants, and some Mesozoic fish and molluscs.

The only local fossils appear to be a few echinoids collected from the Upper Chalk of Epsom Town Chalk Pit and the Downs.

Collectors:
A number of 19th. and early 20th. century named collectors: C.J.Gummel, C.Stubbs, Rev.J.F.Blake, Freeidrich Karl Haberlein (1787-1871), Dr.J.G.Croker, John Whitaker Hulke (1830-1895), W.J.Wilson