Welcome to the Natural History Museum's World-Wide-Web Server
This server is being developed to
provide information on the Museum's exhibitions and public programmes
and to provide access to information about the Museum's work and its
collections.
If you are unfamiliar with HyperText and would like to know more about
it click
here
(or press RETURN if you are using a character-based client).
The Natural History Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding
of the natural world through its unrivalled collections, its world class
exhibitions and education, and through its internationally significant
programme of scientific research.
Information on this WWW server
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Exhibitions
and the programme of public activities.
- Exhibitions, special events, seminars and adult education courses
are just some of The Natural History Museum's programme of activities
for the public.
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Behind the Scenes at the Natural History Museum [inc. 7 images].
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The Natural History Museum is internationally renowned for its scientific
work. Today research is divided into major programmes covering both the
Earth and Life sciences.
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The Walter Rothschild Zoology Museum at Tring and Down House, home of
Charles Darwin.
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These sites of historic and scientific interest are managed by The Natural
History Museum. Both are located in attractive locations close to London and
are open to the public.
The Natural History Museum's internet services
You can link from here to other network services provided by the Museum:
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The Natural History Museum's Directory Services (Gopher)
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Directory services include a search facility for the E-mail addresses of
staff at the NHM.
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Science Information (Gopher)
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Includes
Flora Mesoamericana.
This area is under development.
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The Natural History Museum's Library Catalogue.
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The Natural History Museum holds one of the largest collections of
published material on the earth and life sciences in the world. This
on-line catalogue allows you to search by author, title and keyword.
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The Natural History Museum Publications List
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A list of material published by, on behalf of, or in association with
the Natural History Museum. The list is divided into subject areas.
Links to other WWW information servers
Links to other external sources of information are divided into two
categories:
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Links to other earth and life science information sources [updated 04-Aug-95].
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Links to general information sources and search tools.
Background to the World-Wide-Web project
The World-Wide-Web
(WWW or W3) was first developed at
CERN, where you can get a good overview of the project.
The NHM WWW server is being developed by:
Neil Thomson (N.Thomson@nhm.ac.uk) and
Robert Bloomfield (R.Bloomfield@nhm.ac.uk).
with technical support from:
Sean Steppie (S.Steppie@nhm.ac.uk).