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Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
The seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History MuseumThis dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated...
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Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable SubstancesHans 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...
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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...
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Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventoryFrom 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...
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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...
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Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Plants from Fort St. George India collected by Samuel Browne in 1697Samuel Browne (d. 1698) was a surgeon employed by the English East India Company (EIC) at Fort St. George, Madras (now Chennai) in India. In 1697, Browne sent a herbarium of...
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Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for ChinaThis 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...
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Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
"Join the dots" collections assessment exerciseThe files submitted here form the backbone to a 2018 collections assessment exercise at the Natural History Museum and support a methodology paper submitted to Museum Management...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
UK Species Inventory - Master copyA full copy of the UK Species Inventory, including all tables. This gives the ultimate in functionality but does require a copy of Microsoft Access (or similar database...
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Chris Raper; Charles Hussey | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution |
Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collectionsData 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,...
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Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell; Marc Jones; Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Data from the "Back to the water" projectData from papers published as part of Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-323): Back to the water: macroevolutionary dynamics of secondarily aquatic tetrapods....
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Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Lycianthes (Solanaceae) of Australia, New Guinea & OceaniaSpecimen data used in the publication: Knapp S (2022) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific. PhytoKeys 209: 1-134,...
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Sandra Knapp | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Micropalaeontology student thesis collectionThe NHM holds micropalaeontology thesis slide collections from the University of Hull, University College London, Imperial College London and University College of Wales,...
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Library and Archives | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Part-processed Indonesian Fossil SpecimensCollections of marine invertebrates from the Miocene and Pliocene of East Kalimantan Indonesia that have not been identified to specific taxa so cannot be added to the NHMUK...
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Kenneth Johnson | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |