The Mary Somerville Natural History Collection
Provenance of the collection Mary Somerville’s shell collection which was given to the college in 2018 by her family, the Fairfax-Lucys. It is understood to be her personal collection, which she started accumulating as a girl, collecting ‘native shells’ from the shores around her home in Burntisland. As such, the collection is of great interest to conchologists not only for its… Read More »The Mary Somerville Natural History Collection