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Collection specimensSpecimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
A list of publications by Dr John E. WhittakerThis list is based mainly on data provided by the late Dr John E. Whittaker from his CV when he kept it up to date during his career at the British Museum (Natural...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification ProjectProject Summary
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced the consistent use of binomial names for both plants and animals, validly publishing over 9,000 plant names. Since 1981 the...
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Jacek Wajer | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Castniidae CollectionThe Castniidae Collection comprises the records of all the pinned and spirit material of family Castniidae housed in the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum,...
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Glory Turnbull; Glory Turnbull; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo et al. | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
The Herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)This dataset integrates three data sources, namely:
An inventory of the Sloane herbarium developed by Scott et al (2024); see...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copyAn 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...
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Chris Raper | Citizen Science | License not specified |
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment CollectionThis is a dataset to accompany a paper submitted in April 2025 to Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S. Challenger...
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Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Herbarium of William Bartram (1739 – 1823)The renowned artist & naturalist William Bartram was born in in Kingsessing, near Philadelphia in 1739, the son of acclaimed horticulturalist John Bartram. His love of...
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Debra Turner; Mark Carine | 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...
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Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
The Herbarium of John Ray FRS (1627 – 1705)John Ray F.R.S. (1627-1705) was the leading English naturalist of the 17th century. The son of a blacksmith, born in Black Notley in Essex, Ray was educated at Trinity College...
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Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sedimentsThis represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Reassessing the HMS Challenger
collection as a late 19th century surface ocean indicator using X-ray microcomputed...
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Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History MuseumThis dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated...
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Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondritesThermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
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Helena Bates | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Diatoms Herbarium CollectionThe Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...
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Edgley Cesar | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Mark My BirdThe Mark My Bird dataset comprises 3D scans of bird bills from the ornithology collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Mark My Bird is part of a European Research...
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Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable SubstancesHans 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...
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Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
What predicts gene flow during speciation? The relative roles of time, space,...The processes that restrict gene flow between populations are fundamental to speciation. Here, we develop a simple framework for studying whether divergence in morphology,...
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Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) seeds stranded on the south-...Alignment of 399bp fragment of the nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer region comprising 132 samples of the Ipomoea batatas group, used by Minchin, Griffin and Carine...
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Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |