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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
The Herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) This dataset integrates three data sources, namely: An inventory of the Sloane herbarium developed by Scott et al (2024); see... XLSX	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
The Herbarium of William Bartram (1739 – 1823) The renowned artist & naturalist William Bartram was born in in Kingsessing, near Philadelphia in 1739, the son of acclaimed horticulturalist John Bartram. His love of...	Debra Turner; Mark Carine	Collections	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
The Herbarium of John Ray FRS (1627 – 1705) John Ray F.R.S. (1627-1705) was the leading English naturalist of the 17th century. The son of a blacksmith, born in Black Notley in Essex, Ray was educated at Trinity College... XLSX	Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
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 PDF	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, Griffin and Carine... TXT	Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
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
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
The herbarium specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811) Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...	Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis The Codex Vindobonensis Med. GR. 1 Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (sometimes referred to as the Juliana Anicia codex and hereafter referred to as ‘The Codex’) is a... XLSX	Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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