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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

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,...
 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...
 Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

British and Irish 'Larger' Micro Moths Collection

The British and Irish 'Larger' Micro Moths Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Alucitidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae and Zygaenidae housed in...
 Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Joseph Deane et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Chrysopidae Collection

The Chrysopidae collection comprises the records of all the pinned material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (June 2023). Each specimen...
 Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Skye Neal et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by The Natural History Museum, Lo...

A temporally limited release of The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1 is made available here for non-commercial use under a...
 Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis Research Other (Non-Commercial)

Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventory

From the early 1680s until his death in 1753, London physician Hans Sloane amassed a vast collection of objects, among which were the 121,000 plant specimens that formed his...
 Brad Scott; Victoria Pickering; Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Annotations in Hans Sloane's copy of John Ray's Historia Plantarum (1686-1704)

John Ray’s Historia Plantarum is a three-volume work in Latin comprising three volumes. Volumes I and II were published in 1686 and 1688, and contain approximately 1,000 pages...
 Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al. Collections 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...
 Giles Miller Collections License not specified

Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibian

Many island archipelagos sit on shallow continental shelves. During the Pleistocene, these islands were often connected as global sea levels dropped following glaciation. Given...
 Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection

An interim listing of John Murray's H.M.S. Challenger Sediment Collection. This is intended to accompany a forthcoming publication on that collection. Some parts are incomplete...
 Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments

This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Assessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th Century physicochemical surface ocean indicator using computed...
 Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances

Hans 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...
 Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

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

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

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

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

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

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