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The NMBL holds:
- 14,523 books
- 80,000 reprints
- 147 expedition report series
- 1,200 conference proceedings
- 4,655 serial titles (click here to search serials catalogue)
- 598 current serials
- Special collections which include: Browne, Lebour, Harmer,
Bidder and Young Libraries and Lankester Pamphlets
- MBA archive including papers, letters, notebooks and other documents, illustrations, photographs and pictures
- Comprehensive collection of maps, charts, atlases, expedition reports, microfilms/microfiches and CD-ROMs
Description of collection:
- Extensive coverage of marine biological and ecological literature
- Long runs of periodicals
- Wealth of historical literature
- Extensive reference materials
- Reports and grey literature from all parts of the world
- Worldwide coverage of research literature
- Books classified by subject, including finely illustrated, rare and valuable books from the 19th century and earlier
- Periodicals arranged in subject groups, subdivided geographically
- Rare material e.g. pre-1914 publications from Japan and the Far East, Russia, the Ukraine and other Eastern European countries
- Expedition report series dealing with deep-sea, offshore, coastal and terrestrial environments, many now difficult to locate in libraries
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