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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
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
"Join the dots" collections assessment exercise The files submitted here form the backbone to a 2018 collections assessment exercise at the Natural History Museum and support a methodology paper submitted to Museum Management... DOCX PDF MACRO-ENABLED EXCEL SPREADSHEET TXT	Giles Miller	Collections	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... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum	Collections	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Ray Bate Collection of mainly Cretaceous ostracods from West Africa The dataset describes a named taxonomic reference collection of 311 slides of individual specimens as well as a listing of related assemblage slides covering 4 slide cabinets.... CSV	Giles Miller; Jamie Rolt	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ordovician conodonts from Al Fleij, Oman This dataset includes a listing of all conodont specimens illustrated from the Amdeh Formation at Al Fleij, Oman and accompanies a paper submitted to PGA on the trilobites and... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
A biological nano-foam: the wall of coniferous bisaccate pollen The outer layer of the pollen grain, the exine, plays a key role in the survival of terrestrial plant life. However, the exine structure in different groups of plants remains... CSV	Ruxandra Cojocaru; Oonagh Mannix; Stephen Stukins; Alexandra Pacureanu; Giles Miller; Marie Capron	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminife... The size structure of plankton communities is an important determinant of their functions in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have quantified how organism size varies... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
CT data from Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate ... Original scan data for G. ruber and N. dutertrei used in the publication Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton... STL PDF	Lyndsey Fox; Stephen Stukins; Tom Hill; Giles Miller	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
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
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E... Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller	Research	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... XLSX	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Robin Whatley's type and figured ostracods at the NHM This is a list of papers on ostracods authored by Prof. Robin Whatley that contain reference to specimens housed at the Natural History Museum. The list was compiled as... XLSX	Giles Miller	Collections	CC-BY-SA-4.0

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