Geology - part of the natural history collection

The early contributions to the museum included a number of fossils, corals and minerals, e.g. "1 bottle of sand from Egypt". These did not amount to a coherent collection but included the following interesting contribution "Minerals presented by Lady O'Hagan found in the region of the South Pole by Sir Ernest Shackleton".

Items continued to be donated at irregular intervals up until the 1970s. They came from all over the UK and the rest of the world and only a relatively small percentage are from the local area. In the museum inventory the items are now divided into fossils, minerals and rocks.