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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Fossil and recent ostracod collections A dataset of fossil and recent ostracods CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM London The Natural History Museum, London, holds a collection of >6000 specimens of dry-preserved hard (mainly scleractinian) corals from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean... XLS PDF	Andrew Cabrinovic; Miranda Lowe; Kenneth Johnson; Natalina Bonassera; Mia Williams; Charles Sheppard	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E... Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Baleen stable isotope data This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the... CSV ZIP GRD GRI	Clive N. Trueman; Andrew Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History Museum Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present... TIFF JPEG PDF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Lyell Collection - Types and figured and cited specimens Types and cited specimens included in the Fossil Lyell Collection (group; type status; identification; and reference). DOCX	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
The Fossil Historical Collections There are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100... JPEG TIFF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Insect Pollinators Archive An up to date dataset of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, A multi-institution initiative with the NHM, BBSRC and The University of Edinburgh. The archive is held at the... XLSX	Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil Dataset of specimen and localities of Brazilian species of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades) CSV	Sandra Knapp	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090... TPS CSV	Charlotte E Page; Natalie Cooper	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area... Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both... CSV	Helen Phillips; John M Halley; J Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Andy Purvis	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
NHM Interactions Bank A combined ecological interactions dataset from various projects at the Natural History Museum, London. The data is aggregated from a number of individual projects hosted in the... CSV	Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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