Archive of rock collector's record sheets, giving details of what samples were collected for, petrographic characterisation and storage in the BSG petrological collections. The proformas record what was collected, where, when and by whom. The oldest include records compiled in 1891 by C.T. Clough. The sheets are archived in accession sequence by collector's name. Although most of the sheets refer to samples collected onshore in the UK, there are also sheets for overseas collecting, for instance by A.C. MacGregor in the Caribbean Islands. Paper sample collection record sheets remain in active use in the BGS, a few new sheets are added each year. System has remained essentially unchanged except for change from lat-long to national grid. High proportion have grid references to 10m precision whilst some sheets only have written locality descriptions.

The National Seismological Archive (NSA) is the United Kingdom national repository for seismological material. It was created principally to preserve data from seismological observatories in the UK that have now closed. In many cases in the past records have been lost or destroyed when there is no longer anyone to look after them; the NSA provides a permanent home for these historical scientific documents, to preserve them for posterity. The principal collection consists of the seismograms stores from defunct observatories; also bulletins and reports from all over the world dating from the 1890s onwards, held in a variety of media, including earthquake-related newspaper cuttings, glass slides, microfilm, and comprehensive UK earthquake research material collected over a 30 year period. One of the major projects of the archive has been the presentation of current knowledge of UK historical earthquake seismology material in a short series of reports, easily accessible to researchers. Data includes: Bulletins and correspondence from historical UK observatories; The Ambraseys collection of papers and notes concerning world seismicity; Reports and bulletins from the BGS seismology group; Collected documents concerning seismographs and UK earthquakes; Paper felt report forms distributed and collected by the BGS for earthquakes from the early 1980s until web based forms replaced them.

The Land Survey Archives consists of records of the Geological Survey in Scotland for permanent retention dating from 1860s onwards. The collection comprises geologists' field notebooks, miscellaneous field observations and reports, historical and biographical material, correspondence files, photographs, etc. Includes archival material deposited by outside individuals and organisations, eg. NCB (National Coal Board) Bore Book Collection. Survey archival material for Northern England will be incorporated. Some 380 accessions held amounting to over 7,000 items. Indexed at collection level in Land Survey Record Index (LSRI). Plans abstracted and held separately in Land Survey Plans Collection.

Paper records and photos used to create the Nottingham Caves digital register and maps. Includes archival material of the caves known to BGS, around northern and central Nottingham. Data mainly captured in 1989, infrequent since then approximately 1 per year.

Descriptive register with detailed indexes of the Nottingham man-made caves. Data mainly captured 1989, infrequent additions (approximately 1 per year) since then