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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
John Chainey Lepidoptera Collection The John Chainey Lepidoptera Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material donated by John Chainey to the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum,...	Glory Turnbull; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Leo Le Good et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
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
Castniidae Collection The Castniidae Collection comprises the records of all the pinned and spirit material of family Castniidae housed in the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum,...	Glory Turnbull; Glory Turnbull; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
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
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
Birdwing Butterfly Collection The Birdwing Butterfly collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of...	Peter Wing; Louise Allan; James Ayre; Blanca Huertas et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Images for the evaluation of automatic image segmentation algorithms A collection of 804 jpeg images, each of one or more objects from the Natural History Museum's collections. All images are 4,096 pixels in width. These images can be used to... TAR	Lawrence Hudson; Vladimir Blagoderov; Blanca Huertas; Laurence Livermore et al.	Collections	CC-BY-4.0
iCollections The iCollections dataset comprises the records of all the British and Irish butterfly specimens in the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, London....	Gordon L J Paterson; Sara Albuquerque; Vladimir Blagoderov; Stephen J Brooks et al.	Collections	CC0-1.0
UK Georeferenced Master Sites iCollections Project This Natural History Museums (NHM) digitisation project has produced 7217 georeferenced master sites representing the collection localities for approx., 500,000 NHM Lepitoptera... CSV	Malcolm G Penn; L Duffel; Caitlin McLaughlin; Geoff Martin	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution

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