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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
Global Asteroidea Occurrence Data This is a dataset to accompany a paper to Nature Ecology and Evolution: Carter, Hugh. F; Bribiesca-Contreras, G; Williams, Suzanne T. 2025. Deep seafloor diversity in Asteroidea... CSV	Hugh F Carter; Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras; Suzanne T Williams	Research	License not specified
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
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project Project Summary Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced the consistent use of binomial names for both plants and animals, validly publishing over 9,000 plant names. Since 1981 the... CSV PDF	Jacek Wajer	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection This is a dataset to accompany a paper submitted in April 2025 to Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S. Challenger... CSV	Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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... CSV	Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondrites Thermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. CSV	Helena Bates	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Mark My Bird The Mark My Bird dataset comprises 3D scans of bird bills from the ornithology collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Mark My Bird is part of a European Research... CSV	Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney	Research	CC-BY-4.0
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,... R PHY TRE STRU VCF CSV XML NEX LOG GZ ZIP	Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al.	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
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... CSV PDF	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... CSV PDF	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... CSV	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... TXT VCF GZ STRU XML CSV NEX	Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Asia (excluding New Guinea) Collection event and specimen datasets used for the publication: Knapp S (2024) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in tropical Asia. PhytoKeys 245:1-1-6,... CSV	Sandra Knapp	Collections	Open Data Commons Attribution License
NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for China This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in China. Each location Lat and Long has been... CSV	Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie... Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional... CSV JSON	Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al.	Research	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed Shearwaters Introduction This image database is intended for the analysis of physical and colorimetric properties of plastic litter consumed by fledgling seabirds, but we hope that these... CSV ZIP	Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al.	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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. https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/142/3/308/7287291. Tara Wainwright,... CSV TXT ZIP	Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell; Marc Jones; Natalie Cooper	Research	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.... TEXT/MARKDOWN CSV RDS TRE TXT PNG	Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection

The Herbarium of Samuel Dale M.D. (1659-1739)

Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondrites

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What predicts gene flow during speciation? The relative roles of time, space,...

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

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

Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection

Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibian

Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Asia (excluding New Guinea)

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for China

The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...

Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed Shearwaters

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

Data from the "Back to the water" project

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