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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to Jamaica Hans 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... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
Clifford Herbarium The 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... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copy An 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... ZIP PDF	Chris Raper		License not specified
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... CSV PDF	Charles E Jarvis	Collections	License not specified
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... ZIP PDF	Ronald Jenner	Research	License not specified
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... PDF	Natural History Museum	Collections	License not specified
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... PDF	Chris Raper		License not specified

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