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
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
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
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 collected by...	Pip Brewer, Kate Burton, Adrian Lister	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Old World morelloids Specimens used in the published monograph of the Old World members of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades) Särkinen TE, Poczai P, Barboza GE, van der Weerden GM,... XLS CSV PDF	Sandra Knapp	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Coral Reefs of Discovery Bay Jamaica in 1969 Video including underwater footage of the reefs around Discovery Bay Jamaica made by Lynton Land in 1969 and 1970 mp4 PDF	Lynton Land and others	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Psylloidea phylogenomics Resolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological... nexus TXT XLSX PDF	Diana Percy	Research	Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
Index Lot collection Popular Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	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 L Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance Survey The moth ultraviolet (UV) reflectance survey dataset is constituted of images showing the portion above 360 nm of the UVA reflection of specimens belonging to 176 moth species....	Elisa Cane, Jonathan Laventhol, Sophie Ledger	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
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 R. P. Phillips, John M. Halley, J. Nicolas Urbina-Cardona and Andy Purvis	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection A catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum. The... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
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 Schedrina, Louise Allan, Paul Brown, Laurence Livermore, Vincent S. Smith	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Artefacts Popular Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
iCollections The iCollections dataset comprises the records of all the British and Irish butterfly specimens in the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, London....	Gordon L J Paterson; Sara Albuquerque; Vladimir Blagoderov; Steve Brooks et al.	Collections	CC0-1.0
The former British Petroleum microfossil collection The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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	Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copy An up to date export of the UK Species Inventory database in its simplified form. This dataset contains all names and all taxonomic concepts in 2 tables, which can be used to... ZIP PDF	Chris Raper	Citizen science	License not specified
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... Excel PDF	Andrew Cabrinovic, Miranda Lowe, Kenneth Johnson, Natalina Bonassera, Mia Williams, Charles Sheppard	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution

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