Description of the Material
A small collection including some lists and information about specimens in the Peabody collections, and a news clipping.
Dates
- 2003
Creator
Language of Materials
In English.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Persistent URL
Overview
The archives of Derek E. Briggs encompassing his career at Yale. These include primarily specimen information.
Biographical Sketch
Briggs received his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1972. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1976. In 1977 he began teaching at the University of London. He followed this with a stint at the University of Bristol from 1985-2002. He came to Yale in 2003 as a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics and Curator in Charge of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Yale Peabody Museum. He served as director of the Peabody from 2008-2014. His research focuses on the preservation and evolutionary significance of exceptionally preserved fossil biotas.
- Title
- Derek E. Briggs Archives
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Samantha Murphy
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Repository
Contact:
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170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven CT 06511
(203) 432-3746
(203) 432-9816 (Fax)
peabody.permissions@yale.edu