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296 datasets found

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Collection specimens

Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
 Natural History Museum Collections CC0-1.0

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

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

Coccoidea Slide Collection

The Coccoidea slide collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted scale insect material housed at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project...
 Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Phaedra Kokkini; Krisztina Lohonya et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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...
 Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds Research 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...
 Olha Shchedrina; Louise Allan; Paul Andrew Brown; Laurence Livermore; Vincent Smith Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Defra ODA Legumes Project

The Defra ODA Legumes Project comprises the records of all herbarium sheet specimens of Dalbergia and Pterocarpus, and selected specimens from the subtribe Phaseolinae, housed...
 Krisztina Lohonya; Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Louise Allan et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

The Art of 3D Insects

A collaboration between Adobe and the Natural History Museum, London. Adobe has partnered with the Museum to create a custom curated collection of 20 3D insect assets inspired...
 Jennifer Pullar Public Engagement Creative Commons CCZero

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; Stephen J Brooks et al. Collections CC0-1.0

Birdwing Butterfly Collection

The Birdwing Butterfly collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of...
 Peter Wing; Louise Allan; James Ayre; Blanca Huertas et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Bee Land-use Change Project

The Bee Land-use Change Project dataset comprises the records of all pinned Bombus hortorum, B.hypnorum, B.lapidarius, B.muscorum, B.pascuorum, B.ruderatus and B.sylvarum...
 Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons CCZero

World and European Brassicales Collection

The World and European Brassicales collections comprises the records of all the sheet-mounted material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion...
 Peter Baker; Clare Booth-Downs; Yoke-Shum Broom; Robyn Crowther et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Papilionoidea New Types Digitisation Project

The Papilionoidea type collection comprises the records of recently acquired (~last 20 years) Papilionoidea type material held within a synoptic collection at the Natural...
 Robyn Crowther; Louise Allan; Charlotte Barclay; Blanca Huertas Collections Creative Commons CCZero

British and Irish Agromyzidae (Diptera) Collection

The British and Irish Agromyzidae Collection comprises of the records of all pinned agromyzid material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion...
 Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Peter Wing; Louise Allan et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

iCollections: British and Irish Pyraloidea (Moths) Collection

The Pyraloidea collection comprises the records of all British and Irish material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (August 2019). It...
 Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Phaedra Kokkini; Nicola Lowndes et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Psylloidea Slide Collection

The Psylloidea slide collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted psyllid material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion...
 Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Phaedra Kokkini; Nicola Lowndes et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Aleyrodoidea Slide Collection

The Aleyrodoidea slide collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted whitefly material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion...
 Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish; Nicola Lowndes; Peter Wing et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Cooper Collection

The Cooper collection comprises the records of all material from the Martin Cooper acquisition (BMNH-ENT-2018-128) at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project...
 Phaedra Kokkini; Nicola Lowndes; Louise Allan; Charlotte Barclay et al. Corporate Creative Commons CCZero

Atlas of Living Malaysia

The Atlas of Living Malaysia project comprises the records of pre-selected pinned insect specimens at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes representatives of over...
 Robyn Crowther; Phaedra Kokkini; Peter Wing; Louise Allan; Charlotte Barclay; Laurence Livermore Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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