Catalogue of types of recent cephalopods in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum [NHM], London, formerly the British Museum (Natu ral History) [BM(NH)], is a centre of biological systematic collections hav ing worldwide coverage. The small but significant historical collections of Cephalopoda are rich in type material (41 cuttlefish; 51 squid; 73 octopod s) and have recently been transformed by the addition of the extensive Disc overy collections and the Malcolm Clarke collection of Cephalopoda collecte d from Sperm Whales, both having come from the Institute of Oceanographic S ciences.,A list of the Cephalopoda type collections has not been published for 150 years and shuld be of value to workers on the systematics of the gr oup.