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Collections
UWIGM COLLECTIONS
The Museum houses over 11,000 catalogued specimens collected worldwide.
Lucas Barrett Collection
Lucas Barrett (1837 – 1862), a geologist, worked in Jamaica
for just over three years. He held the post of Director of the first
Geological Survey of Jamaica until his untimely death in 1862. His
name has been perpetuated in the rudist genus Barrettia Woodward,
which he discovered in 1861 in the Back Rio Grande Valley of Portland,
northeast Jamaica. His collection consists of some 153 rock, mineral
and fossil specimens, 80 of which were collected from eastern Jamaica.
The specimens were not only collected to aid his geological investigations,
but also to form the basis for a geological museum, an idea he fostered
from 1859 until his death. Following his death, his specimens were
sent to his family in England and later housed in the Sedgewick
Museum, Cambridge. These specimens were acquired by the UWIGM in
1975.
Verners A. Zans Collection
This collection of Recent molluscs and corals was acquired from
the Geological Survey of Jamaica in 1961, when the Department of
Geology was being established. Verners A. Zans, a past Director
of the Geological Survey of Jamaica, did extensive work on Jamaican
geology, which resulted in, among others, the discovery of marble
deposits in St. Thomas and the publication of a new geological map
of Jamaica in 1958.
Howard R. Versey Collection
Howard R. Versey, a former Director of the Geological Survey from
1966 to 1968, worked extensively on mapping the Tertiary White Limestone
Formation and succeeded in zoning the formation on the basis of
larger foraminifers and establishing a relationship between the
several facies. It is this material, which formed the basis of his
M.Sc. research, that comprises this collection.
Institute of Jamaica Collection
A collection of rocks, minerals and fossils from Jamaica and around
the World that was donated to the museum in the 1970’s. Some
of these specimens were collected as far back as the 1860’s
when the first Geological Survey of Jamaica was established.
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