Excerpt:
The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford. By virtue of the collection and the building, the Museum occupies a special position, both in the study of the history of science and in the development of western culture and collecting.
Annotation:
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History has a large quantity of Entomological, Geological, Mineralogical and Zoological specimens (nearly 4,000,000 in total). Some of these collections are on-line and others include images and bibliographical essays on their collectors. The Museum includes a library with a collection of thousands of rare natural history books, and hosts a number of on-line exhibits. Essays on various permanent exhibitions and a full text article by Keith Thomson about the Thomas Huxley-William Wilberforce debate round out this collection. Researchers of natural history will find this site to be valuable.