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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
The Herbarium of Samuel Dale M.D. (1659-1739) Samuel Dale was born in 1659. He was apprenticed as an apothecary before moving to practice in Braintree, Essex in 1680. There, he befriended John Ray and began to pursue an... CSV	Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Plants of South Asia The Plants of South Asia dataset comprises details of herbarium specimens from the South Asian region and includes botanical specimens Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,...	Jovita Yesilyurt; Shyam Biswa; Mark Carine; Felipe Dominguez Santana et al.	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances Hans Sloane’s Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances originally consisted of 12,752 botanical specimens, most housed in small glass and wooden boxes. Sealed inside... XLSX	Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
The herbarium specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811) Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...	Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to Jamaica Hans Sloane was a seventeenth-century doctor and collector. He amassed a vast amount of material that eventually formed the basis of the British Museum. In 1881, Sloane's... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Bound Volumes and Exsiccatae in the Botanical Collections at the Natural Hist... This dataset provides an overview of the bound volumes and exsiccatae preserved in the botanical collections of the Natural History Museum. For each of the 1320 items accounted... XLSX	Norbert Holstein; Mark Carine; Edgley Cesar; Len Ellis et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Clifford Herbarium The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis The Codex Vindobonensis Med. GR. 1 Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (sometimes referred to as the Juliana Anicia codex and hereafter referred to as ‘The Codex’) is a... XLSX	Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Clayton Herbarium John Clayton (1694-1773) was a notable early collector of plant specimens in North America. From 1720 until his death, he was Clerk to the Court of Gloucester County in... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Hermann Herbarium The collection of dried plants and drawings made in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for Paul Hermann in the 1670s possesses a special importance in being one of the first major collections... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified

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