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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to Jamaica Hans Sloane was a seventeenth-century doctor and collector. He amassed a vast amount of material that eventually formed the basis of the British Museum. In 1881, Sloane's... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Clifford Herbarium The herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant. The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Evolutionary transitions in broad tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea) Broad tapeworms (Diphyllobothriidea Kuchta, Scholz, Brabec and Bray, 2008) are wildlife parasites whose adults are capable of infecting a wide range of freshwater, marine and... NEX RTF CSV	Natalia Fraija-Fernández; Andrea Waeschenbach; Andrew Briscoe; Suzanne Hocking et al.	Research	License not specified
Hermann Herbarium The collection of dried plants and drawings made in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for Paul Hermann in the 1670s possesses a special importance in being one of the first major collections... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera In 2006, Eric Robinson, formerly of University College London, donated his ostracod collection to the Natural History Museum. This collection contains slides of named taxa and... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Notes from Nature crowd sourcing raw data set Raw transcription data from the Notes from Nature crowd sourcing site for the ornithology collections of the NHM CSV	Natural History Museum		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
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
Duxbury collection database Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst specimens. The database includes the original... CSV	Susanne Feist-Burkhardt; Andrew S Henderson; Iona McLachlan	Collections	License not specified
Supporting information for: Collins RA, Britz R, Rüber L (2015) Supporting information for: Collins RA, Britz R, Rüber L (2015). Phylogenetic systematics of leaffishes (Teleostei: Polycentridae, Nandidae). J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. CSV BASH	Collins R A; Britz R; Rüber L	Research	License not specified

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