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Index Lot collection

Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Wallace and Banks drawers

Drawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
Suzanne Ryder Collections Creative Commons Attribution

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

Micropalaeontology student thesis collection

The NHM holds micropalaeontology thesis slide collections from the University of Hull, University College London, Imperial College London and University College of Wales,...
Library and Archives Collections Creative Commons Attribution

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

Data from the "Back to the water" project

Data from papers published as part of Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-323): Back to the water: macroevolutionary dynamics of secondarily aquatic tetrapods....
Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper 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

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

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...
Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

CHROMREP

Data from the CHROMREP project led by Marcello Mezzasalma (m.mezzasalma@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. This data was used in the paper: Marcello...
Marcello Mezzasalma; Jeffrey Streicher; Fabio Maria Guarino; Marc Jones et al. 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

British and Irish butterflies and moths: The Cockayne collection

This collection was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell collection with the many other important British and Irish Lepidoptera collections...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

NATRICINE

Data from the NATRICINE project led by V.Deepak (veerappandeepak@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. These data have been used in several papers: Deepak....
Veerappan Deepak; Natalie Cooper; David J Gower Research Creative Commons Attribution

Morphological study of Bombus flavescens’s visual organs

List of specimens, including species, collection (CUNHM= Chulalongkorn University Natural History Museum, Bangkok, Thailand; KKIC= Kasetsart Kamphaeng Saen Insect Collection,...
Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams Research Creative Commons Attribution

Southeast Asian Bumblebee Specimen Database

List of Southeast Asian bumblebee specimens (the CT database), including CT ID, collection (BEEP=Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang...
Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams Research Creative Commons Attribution

Bombus flavescens Specimen Database

List of Bombus flavescens specimens (the FLA database) including FLA ID, collection (MNHN= Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; NHMUK= Natural History Museum,...
Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams Research Creative Commons Attribution

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