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236 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

Data from the "Back to the water" project

Data from papers published as part of Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-323): Back to the water: macroevolutionary dynamics of secondarily aquatic tetrapods....
 Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper Research 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...
 Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Sampaio_Uropeltidae

Supplementary files
 Natural History Museum Research License not specified

Function and ecology of Solanum underground organs

Datasets used for analyses in the publication: Gagnon E, Baldaszti L, Moonlight P, Knapp S, Lehmann C, Särkinen T (submitted) Functional and ecological diversification of...
 Edeline Gagnon; Tiina Särkinen; Sandra Knapp Research Creative Commons CCZero

Artefacts

Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
 Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections

Data from paper: Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections. link to paper. Tara Wainwright, Morwenna Trevenna, Sarah R. Alewijnse, Patrick...
 Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Wheat Through the Ages

The project entailed to stub-record, image and transcribe all of the Triticeae tribe from General Herbarium, British & Irish Herbarium and Percival Collection at the Natural...
 Larissa Welton; Krisztina Lohonya; Krisztina Lohonya; Krisztina Lohonya et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

The John Murray Foraminifera Collection

Data pertaining to the collection of John W. Murray's now housed at the NHM. This includes specimens, samples, residues, theses and published/unpublished data
 Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

South American morelloid Solanum

Occurrence and specimen data used in the publication: Knapp S, T. Särkinen & G.E Barboza (2023) A revision of the South American species of the Morelloid clade (Solanum L.;...
 Sandra Knapp; Tiina Särkinen; Gloria E. Barboza Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Plants of South Asia

The Plants of South Asia dataset comprises details of herbarium specimens from the South Asian region and includes botanical specimens Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,...
 Jovita Yesilyurt; Shyam Biswa; Mark Carine; Felipe Dominguez Santana et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioi...

The project "Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioindicators" involved the rehousing, imaging and label data transcription of all the...
 Katharine Holub-Swindell; Katharine Holub-Swindell; Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Thysanoptera Slide Collection

The Thysanoptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted Thysanoptera material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of the project completion...
 Larissa Welton; Louise Berridge; Joseph Deane; Daniel Hall et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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

Join the Dots collection-level descriptions

The records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
 Natural History Museum Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Peruvian herbarium data for accurate IUCN threat assessments

Data downloaded from Solanaceae Source and the Begonia Resource Centre for use in analyses in the following paper: Delves, J. et al. (in preparation) Small and in-country...
 Sandra Knapp; Peter Moonlight; Tiina Särkinen Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

CHROMREP

Data from the CHROMREP project led by Marcello Mezzasalma (m.mezzasalma@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. This data was used in the paper: Marcello...
 Marcello Mezzasalma; Jeffrey Streicher; Fabio Maria Guarino; Marc Jones et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

The herbarium specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811)

Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...
 Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch Research Creative Commons Attribution

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