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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 |
"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 |
Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical a...Here we provide machine-readable (csv files) and human readable (pdf files) tables of country, subregion and region averages for the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) and land...
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Adriana De Palma; Andrew Hoskins; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Luca Borger et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Join the Dots collection-level descriptionsThe 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...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
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 |
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copyAn up to date export of the UK Species Inventory database in its simplified form. This dataset contains all names and all taxonomic concepts in 2 tables, which can be used to...
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Chris Raper | Citizen Science | License not specified |
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 |
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 |
Plymouth University (Prof. Malcolm Hart) Microfossil CollectionThis is a collections level description of 12 cabinets from the research collection of Malcolm hart, donated in 2022 to the NHM.
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HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran HostplantsPlease note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the...
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Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández | Research | Creative Commons CCZero |
Butterflies and Moths of the WorldThere 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...
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Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to JamaicaHans Sloane was a seventeenth-century doctor and collector. He amassed a vast amount of material that eventually formed the basis of the British Museum. In 1881, Sloane's...
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Charles E Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
A guide to lichens on twigsWelcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the...
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Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification ProjectProject Summary
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced the consistent use of binomial names for both plants and animals, validly publishing over 9,000 plant names. Since 1981 the...
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Catalogue of MeteoritesThe Catalogue of Meteorites is the world taxonomic database of all meteorite falls and finds recorded up to June 2002.
The first edition was published in 1847 and consisted of...
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Monica Grady | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Tropical Asian spiny SolanumSpecimen data used for the publication:
Aubriot X, Knapp S (2022) A revision of the “spiny solanums” of Tropical Asia (Solanum Leptostemonum Clade: Solanaceae).PhytoKeys 198:...
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Sandra Knapp; Xavier Aubriot | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Lincolnshire Plants: Past and FutureLincolnshire Plants: Past and Future (popularly known as ‘LoveLincsPlants’) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) supported project in collaboration with the Lincolnshire...
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Kath Castillo; Fred Rumsey; Debra Turner | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Clifford HerbariumThe herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant.
The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated...
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Charles E Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
Coral Reefs of Discovery Bay Jamaica in 1969Video including underwater footage of the reefs around Discovery Bay Jamaica made by Lynton Land in 1969 and 1970
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Lynton Land | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |