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Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal both underestimation and overestimatio...

Among direct-developing rain frogs of the genus Craugastor is a clade of 19 described species (bocourti series) that occur in Mexico and northern Central America. Many of these...
Jeffrey Streicher; John Wiens; Merlijn Jocqué; Uri García-Vázquez; Eric Smith Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Plants from Fort St. George India collected by Samuel Browne in 1697

Samuel Browne (d. 1698) was a surgeon employed by the English East India Company (EIC) at Fort St. George, Madras (now Chennai) in India. In 1697, Browne sent a herbarium of...
Ranee Prakash Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed Shearwaters

Introduction This image database is intended for the analysis of physical and colorimetric properties of plastic litter consumed by fledgling seabirds, but we hope that these...
Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database V1.1

This is an updated version of the 2016 release of the PREDICTS database. Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. One source...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC BY-NC 4.0

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database [SUPERSEDED]

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS VERSION OF THE DATABASE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. The new version...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens

Introduction This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they...
Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble Research Creative Commons Attribution

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for China

This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in China. Each location Lat and Long has been...
Malcolm G Penn; Malcolm G Penn Research Creative Commons Attribution

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for Australia

This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in Australia. Each location Lat and Long has...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

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...
Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Sampaio_Uropeltidae

Supplementary files
Natural History Museum Research License not specified

Artefacts

Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections

Data from paper: Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections. link to paper. Tara Wainwright, Morwenna Trevenna, Sarah R. Alewijnse, Patrick...
Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Wheat Through the Ages

The project entailed to stub-record, image and transcribe all of the Triticeae tribe from General Herbarium, British & Irish Herbarium and Percival Collection at the Natural...
Larissa Welton; Krisztina Lohonya; Krisztina Lohonya; Krisztina Lohonya et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

The John Murray Foraminifera Collection

Data pertaining to the collection of John W. Murray's now housed at the NHM. This includes specimens, samples, residues, theses and published/unpublished data
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

South American morelloid Solanum

Occurrence and specimen data used in the publication: Knapp S, T. Särkinen & G.E Barboza (2023) A revision of the South American species of the Morelloid clade (Solanum L.;...
Sandra Knapp; Tiina Särkinen; Gloria E. Barboza Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

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

Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioi...

The project "Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioindicators" involved the rehousing, imaging and label data transcription of all the...
Katharine Holub-Swindell; Katharine Holub-Swindell; Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Thysanoptera Slide Collection

The Thysanoptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted Thysanoptera material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of the project completion...
Larissa Welton; Louise Berridge; Joseph Deane; Daniel Hall et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Join the Dots collection-level descriptions

The records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
Natural History Museum Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Peruvian herbarium data for accurate IUCN threat assessments

Data downloaded from Solanaceae Source and the Begonia Resource Centre for use in analyses in the following paper: Delves, J. et al. (in preparation) Small and in-country...
Sandra Knapp; Peter Moonlight; Tiina Särkinen Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

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