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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Collection specimens Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection DWC	Natural History Museum	Collections	CC0-1.0
Index Lot collection Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection CSV	Natural History Museum	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
British and Irish butterflies and moths: The Cockayne collection This collection was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell collection with the many other important British and Irish Lepidoptera collections...	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Butterflies and Moths of the World There are currently an estimated 112,000 to 165,000 described species of butterflies and moths (Scoble, 1999) in nearly 24,000 available and objective replacement genus-group... PDF XLSX	Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
NHM Bird Collection Type Specimens Summary Search and browse the bird type specimens held in the collection of the Natural History Museum, or download and re-use the dataset describing the NHM's bird holotypes,... XLSX	Natural History Museum; Natural History Museum; Rachel L. M. Warren; C. J. O. Harrison et al.	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Artefacts Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Historical UK cetacean strandings dataset (1913-1989) Over 100 years ago, the Natural History Museum created a project to document the cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) stranded on British beaches. Annual reports were... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
The former British Petroleum microfossil collection The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Fossil and recent ostracod collections A dataset of fossil and recent ostracods CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
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
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection A catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum. The... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
First Fleet artwork collection On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as the First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their... PDF	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
Biodiversity Heritage Library Natural History Museum biodiversity literature published to the Biodiversity Heritage Library.	Natural History Museum		License not specified
Natural History Museum Library and Archives Explore one of the world's finest collections of natural history literature, artwork, photographs and manuscripts.	Natural History Museum		License not specified
Natural History Museum Picture Library Explore our comprehensive range of natural history images. From specimens to skins and skeletons, mammals, maps and microscopic views of the natural world, a unique resource of...	Natural History Museum		License not specified

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