Abstract
A brief note in The Magazine of Natural History, (1828) 1, 191, describes the Museum as occupying the upper of two rooms *lately erected* by *the commissioners of His Majesty*s victualling department*. The writer comments *It already contains many curious specimens in morbid anatomy, ^nd a considerable number of foreign birds. insects, shells, minerals, plants, &c. principally presented by the medical officers of His Majesty*s navy*. H.S.T. Mrs P.M. Vergo (Department of Palaeontology, Portsmouth Polytechnic) writes that in 1941 the Haslar collections included some 16,000 geological specimens collected by naval personnel. Unfortunately the Museum received a direct hit during war-time bombing. Specimens were recovered over a period of months, but only some two dozen or so remain at Haslar, and...
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