In 1887 he was appointed an assistant in the geological department of the Natural History Museum, London.

In March 1838, the survey was divided into four departments: geological and mineralogical, zoological, botanical, and topographical.

From 1938 on Nelböck worked in the geological department of the wartime economic oil authority.

On his return from Europe in 1910, Basedow entered the geological department of South Australia as Assistant Government Geologist.

He became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department.

In 1894, he became curator of its geological, paleontological and mineralogical departments.

The mathematical and geological departments were called upon to make studies of this phenomenon.

In 1881 Etheridge was transferred from the Geological Survey to the geological department of the British Museum, where he served as assistant keeper until 1891.

Simpson (1928), A catalogue of the Mesozoic mammalia in the geological department of the British Museum.

For Cerro and other industrial clients, he set up modern geological departments and trained staff geologists to high professional standards.