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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. ^[1]

Between 1813 and 1956 the department was known as the Department of Geology, and the head of the department as the Keeper of Geology. ^[2]

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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