Datasets

Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Collection specimens Popular Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection dwc	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. CSV	Sue Ryder	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Ludlow Museum Fossils in Shropshire Project data The Fossils in Shropshire project dataset includes collections data and images of geological specimens from Shropshire Museums collections. The collection is principally... CSV	Daniel Lockett, Jackie Tweddle	Collections	CC0-1.0
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data from the paper Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae. CSV PTS pts TRE	Travis Park, Bastien Mennecart, Loïc Costeur, Camille Grohé, Natalie Cooper	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Lincolnshire Plants: Past and Future This is a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported project of three years duration in collaboration with the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust (LWT), Sir Joseph Banks Society (SJBS), the...	Kath Castillo, Fred Rumsey, Debra Turner	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean... Data from the paper: What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years. This dataset contains information on... CSV	Ellen J Coombs; Rob Deaville; Richard C. Sabin; Louise Allan et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Fossil and recent ostracod collections A dataset of fossil and recent ostracods CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Phthiraptera collection The Phthiraptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted parasitic lice material at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes the main collection and the... PDF	Olha Shchedrina, E. Louise Allan, Paul Brown, Laurence Livermore, Vincent S. Smith	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Darwin's Fossil Mammals 3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle. The initial upload will be of all surviving specimens of Toxodon and Megatherium...	Pip Brewer, Kate Burton, Adrian Lister	Collections	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
3D Cetacean Scanning 3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the...	Richard Sabin, Kate Burton, Natalie Cooper, Anjali Goswami	Collections	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
ALICE test images Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.	Ben Price; Steen Dupont; Elizabeth Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al.	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility The data required to run the analyses in Al Sabouni et al "Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for measures of... R XLSX .zip PNG	Isabel Fenton	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
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 GRI GRD	Clive N Trueman; Andrew L 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... tif JPEG TIFF PDF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Data from 'Acosta-Galvis et al. 2018 - Zootaxa' Among New World direct-developing frogs belonging to the clade Brachycephaloidea (= Terraranae), there are several genera with uncertain phylogenetic placements. One notable... NEX TRE PHY TXT	Andrés R. Acosta-Galvis, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Luigi Manuelli, Travis Cuddy, Rafael O. de Sá	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Data from 'Meik et al. 2018 - Journal of Natural History' We describe two diminutive species of rattlesnakes (Genus Crotalus) from small nearshore islands off the coast of Baja California in the western Gulf of California, Mexico. In... STRU NEX TXT	Jesse M. Meik, Sarah Schaack, Oscar Flores-Villela, Jeffrey W. Streicher	Research	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	Professor Graham N Stone, Professor Alfried Vogler, Dr Adam Vanbergen, Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection The Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand... XLSX	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Xenophyophores Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated... CSV	Andrew Gooday, Dan Sykes, Adrian Glover	Collections	License not specified
Fenton et al Reproducibility The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera". CSV R XLSX	Isabel Fenton	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License

You can also access this registry using the API (see API guide).

Datasets

115 datasets found

Collection specimens Popular