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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
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... XLSX	Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) seeds stranded on the south-... Alignment of 399bp fragment of the nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer region comprising 132 samples of the Ipomoea batatas group, used by Minchin and Carine to... TXT	Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine	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... CSV	Mark Carine	Collections	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
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
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
Bound Volumes and Exsiccatae in the Botanical Collections at the Natural Hist... This dataset provides an overview of the bound volumes and exsiccatae preserved in the botanical collections of the Natural History Museum. For each of the 1320 items accounted... XLSX	Norbert Holstein; Mark Carine; Edgley Cesar; Len Ellis et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero

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