The Keeper of Palaeontology was formerly a palaeontological academic position at the Natural History Museum, London. The Keeper of Palaeontology served as the Head of the Department of Palaeontology: following reorganisation in 2013 the Departments of Mineralogy and Palaeontology merged to become the Earth Sciences department.
Between 1813 and 1956 the department was known as the Department of Geology, and the head of the department as the Keeper of Geology.
Keepers of Geology Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig 1813–1851 George Robert Waterhouse 1851–1880 Henry Woodward 1880–1901 Arthur Smith Woodward 1901–1924 Francis Arthur Bather 1924–1928 William Dickson Lang 1928–1938 Wilfred Norman Edwards 1938–1955 Errol Ivor White 1955–1956
Keepers of Palaeontology Errol Ivor White 1956–1966 Harold William Ball 1966–1986 Leonard Robert Morrison Cocks 1986–1998 Stephen Kenneth Donovan 1998–2002 Norman MacLeod 2002–2013
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