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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
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection This is a dataset to accompany a paper submitted in April 2025 to Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S. Challenger... CSV	Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Reassessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th century surface ocean indicator using X-ray microcomputed...	Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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... XLSX	Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondrites Thermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. CSV	Helena Bates	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Diatoms Herbarium Collection The Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...	Edgley Cesar	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Mark My Bird The Mark My Bird dataset comprises 3D scans of bird bills from the ornithology collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Mark My Bird is part of a European Research... CSV	Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney	Research	CC-BY-4.0
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
What predicts gene flow during speciation? The relative roles of time, space,... The processes that restrict gene flow between populations are fundamental to speciation. Here, we develop a simple framework for studying whether divergence in morphology,... R PHY TRE STRU VCF CSV XML NEX LOG GZ ZIP	Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al.	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
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
British and Irish 'Larger' Micro Moths Collection The British and Irish 'Larger' Micro Moths Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Alucitidae, Cossidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae and Zygaenidae housed in...	Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Joseph Deane et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Chrysopidae Collection The Chrysopidae collection comprises the records of all the pinned material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (June 2023). Each specimen...	Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Skye Neal et al.	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
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
Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection The Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibian Many island archipelagos sit on shallow continental shelves. During the Pleistocene, these islands were often connected as global sea levels dropped following glaciation. Given... TXT VCF GZ STRU XML CSV NEX	Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Atlas of Living Malaysia The Atlas of Living Malaysia project comprises the records of pre-selected pinned insect specimens at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes representatives of over...	Robyn Crowther; Phaedra Kokkini; Peter Wing; Louise Allan; Charlotte Barclay; Laurence Livermore	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Cooper Collection The Cooper collection comprises the records of all material from the Martin Cooper acquisition (BMNH-ENT-2018-128) at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project...	Phaedra Kokkini; Nicola Lowndes; Louise Allan; Charlotte Barclay et al.	Corporate	Creative Commons CCZero

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The Herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)

Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection

The Herbarium of William Bartram (1739 – 1823)

The Herbarium of Samuel Dale M.D. (1659-1739)

CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments

The seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum

Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondrites

Diatoms Herbarium Collection

Mark My Bird

Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances

What predicts gene flow during speciation? The relative roles of time, space,...

Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) seeds stranded on the south-...

British and Irish 'Larger' Micro Moths Collection

Chrysopidae Collection

Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventory

Annotations in Hans Sloane's copy of John Ray's Historia Plantarum (1686-1704)

Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection

Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibian

Atlas of Living Malaysia

Cooper Collection

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