Darwin’s ’lost’ fossils | Rediscovering the J D Hooker slide collection | Howard Falcon-Lang

Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a palaeontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, describes how he found some unregistered fossils, collected by Charles Darwin, at the British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, near Nottingham. The collection was assembled by Joseph Hooker (Darwin’s best friend) while he was briefly employed by the Survey in 1846. For more information and to view the collection go to: