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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Index Lot collection Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection CSV	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. CSV	Suzanne Ryder	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
Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens Introduction This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they... CSV	Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Artefacts Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Please note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the... CSV PDF	Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández	Research	Creative Commons CCZero
A guide to lichens on twigs Welcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al.	Citizen Science	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Beetle Drawer Scans Drawer scans of beetles from the Natural History Museums (NHM) collections. These scans are a mix of work produced by volunteers at the NHM as part of the VFactor program as... CSV	Josh Humphries	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
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
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
Xenophyophores Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated... CSV	Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover	Collections	License not specified
Conodont collection database The database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Pushing the limits – two new species of Pteromalus (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea... Two new species, Pteromalus briani sp. n. and P. janstai sp. n., with unusual characters are described from the Central Plateau and the Alps in Switzerland, respectively. P.... CSV TXT ZIP	Hannes Baur	Research	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Notes From Nature Contributor statistics from the Museum's Notes From Nature Ornithological project, transcribing bird register information from 1837 to 1990. CSV	Tim Conyers		CC-BY-4.0

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