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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...
Lyndsey Fox; Stephen Stukins; Tom Hill; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s

This is a collection of 1481 images that were made by Eileen Graham between 1966 and 1968 showing coral reefs from the northern coast of Jamaica. Most of the image were made of...
Kenneth Johnson CC-BY-4.0

Hermann Herbarium

The collection of dried plants and drawings made in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for Paul Hermann in the 1670s possesses a special importance in being one of the first major collections...
Charles E Jarvis Collections License not specified

Morelloid solanum North and Central America and the Caribbean

Specimens used in the monograph of the morelloid clade of Solanum occurring in North and Central America and the Caribbean Knapp S, Barboza GE, Bohs L, Särkinen T (2019) A...
Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Old World morelloids

Specimens used in the published monograph of the Old World members of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades) Särkinen TE, Poczai P, Barboza GE, van der Weerden GM,...
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Psylloidea phylogenomics

Resolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological...
Diana Percy Research Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM London

The Natural History Museum, London, holds a collection of >6000 specimens of dry-preserved hard (mainly scleractinian) corals from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean...
Andrew Cabrinovic; Miranda Lowe; Kenneth Johnson; Natalina Bonassera; Mia Williams; Charles Sheppard Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History Museum

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present...
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Phthiraptera collection

The Phthiraptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted parasitic lice material at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes the main collection and the...
Olha Shchedrina; Louise Allan; Paul Andrew Brown; Laurence Livermore; Vincent Smith Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Supplementary data remipede Toxins paper

These data are the supplementary data accompanying a paper submitted to the journal Toxins titled Venomics of remipede crustaceans reveals novel peptide diversity and...
Ronald Jenner Research License not specified

Metrosideros-feeding psyllids of the Hawaiian Islands

Abstract of publication: The Hawaiian psyllids (Psylloidea, Triozidae) feeding on Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) constitute a remarkable radiation of more than 35 species. This...
Diana Percy Research ODC-BY-1.0

First Fleet artwork collection

On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as the First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their...
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

Some Useful Equations and Tables for the Digitisation of Taped Sound Collections

This document contains conversion tables and equations that have been useful while digitising the Natural History Museum’s collection of recorded wildlife sound as part of the...
Edward Baker Collections CC-BY-4.0

Tropical Asian spiny solanums (2016)

Static dataset of species identities and coordinates for specimens used to create Figure 2 in Aubriot et al. (see Abstract and publication details below). Data presented here...
Xavier Aubriot Collections ODC-BY-1.0

Solanum section Aculeigerum

Collections used in the preparation of the publication of a taxonomic revision of Solanum section Aculeigerum. The data are presented in two formats: 1) a static pdf file of an...
Sandra Knapp Collections ODC-BY-1.0

IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator (Annotated building ins...

Dupont et al. 2015. IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator. Supplement.
Steen Dupont; Benjamin Price; Vladimir Blagoderov Research CC-BY-4.0

UK Species Inventory - Master copy

A 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...
Chris Raper License not specified

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