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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
A list of publications by Dr John E. Whittaker This list is based mainly on data provided by the late Dr John E. Whittaker from his CV when he kept it up to date during his career at the British Museum (Natural... DOCX	Natural History Museum	Collections	Open Data Commons Attribution License
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
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
Plymouth University (Prof. Malcolm Hart) Microfossil Collection This is a collections level description of 12 cabinets from the research collection of Malcolm hart, donated in 2022 to the NHM. PDF	Natural History Museum	Collections
The John Murray Foraminifera Collection Data pertaining to the collection of John W. Murray's now housed at the NHM. This includes specimens, samples, residues, theses and published/unpublished data XLS	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
CT scans of Challenger Sediments CT scans of HMS Challenger sediments application/sla	Natural History Museum	Research	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
CT data from Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate ... Original scan data for G. ruber and N. dutertrei used in the publication Fox et al. 2020 Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton... STL PDF	Lyndsey Fox; Stephen Stukins; Tom Hill; Giles Miller	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera In 2006, Eric Robinson, formerly of University College London, donated his ostracod collection to the Natural History Museum. This collection contains slides of named taxa and... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified

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