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Index Lot collection

Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Wallace and Banks drawers

Drawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
Suzanne Ryder Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Summary Statistics Echinoid Collection

Summary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data
Hugh F Carter Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Slimehead size through time: testing the temperature-size relationship in Lat...

As global temperatures rise, fish are predicted to become smaller. Body size is a fundamental trait that impacts many aspects of an animal's life history and ecology, and...
Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett Research Creative Commons Attribution

Coral Reef Sand Data for Training SandE

This repository contains all the training data used to train the Sediment Analysis Neural-network Data-engine (SAND-e). SAND-e was created as part of the PhD thesis of G....
George William Harrison; Teigan Georgia Collins; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Kenneth Johnson et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Fossil and recent ostracod collections

A collections level dataset of fossil and recent ostracods in the collections at the Natural History Museum.
Giles Miller; Adrian Rundle Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergency

A csv file containing collector and identification records for herbarium specimens found that have been collected in the Museum grounds. Dates range from 1865 to 2022. As the...
Sandra Knapp; Chris Dixon; John Hunnex Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Earthworm Watch Participants

Anonymised data from participants who registered for the Earthworm Watch citizen science project which ran from April 2016 to August 2018. This data was used for the paper Who...
Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis Citizen Science 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...
Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine 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...
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...
Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum

This dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated...
Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 1697

Samuel 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...
Ranee Om Prakash Collections Creative Commons Attribution

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for China

This 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...
Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya Research Creative Commons Attribution

"Join the dots" collections assessment exercise

The 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...
Giles Miller Collections Creative Commons Attribution

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