Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (Liberal Democrat), on Thursday, 5 March 1992, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 11 members in total.

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PALAEONTOLOGY

That this House condemns the proposals of the British Geological Survey to discontinue the greater part of the study of fossils in its Edinburgh office on the retirement of the two remaining palaeontologists on the staff and to transfer all but 20,000 of some 230,000 specimens to its headquarters in Nottingham as representing a major setback to the operation of the British Geological Survey in Scotland; and calls upon the British Geological Survey not to implement these proposals which would constitute a major inhibition on the study of geology in Scotland.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

814 

Session

1991-92

Subjects

Scotland Geology Fossils British Geological Survey

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk