The Leeds Collection is now dispersed between a number of institutions, most notably the Natural History Museum in London, and here in the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow.
The Leeds collections� vertebrates include fish, such as the giant pachycormid Leedsichthys problematicus (Liston & No�, 2004), a range of marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, crocodiles and ichthyosaurs (e.g. Andrews, 1910, 1913; Brown, 1981; No�, 2001) and incomplete dinosaurs. However, in addition to the fossils, there is a largely untapped archive which adds significant value to the Leeds collection: the data from this archive is beginning to fill in details of, for instance, the pits in which the specimens were originally located, the materials used to unite the bones, and the prices for which the specimens were sold. The Leeds Collection, archive material, and other sources are here woven together to allow us to delve deeper into this unique palaeontological and archival resource.