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Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
The former British Petroleum microfossil collectionThe database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
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Andrew S Henderson; Giles Miller; Geoff Eaton | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collectionA catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum.
The...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |
Conodont collection databaseThe database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Imperial College of London Royal School of Mines Micropalaeontological Collec...This dataset provides a drawer level listing of the Imperial College Royal School of Mines microfossil collection of mainly Foraminifera collected by Dr David Carter. It was...
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Jonathan Whittaker | Collections | License not specified |
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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Jacek Wajer | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
John Whittaker's collection of micropalaeontological slides from his archaeol...This is a listing of all of the unregistered slides from John Whittaker's work on Archaeological Sites from the UK. Each row represents an assemblage slide of mixed...
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Robin Whittaker; Ergian Musto | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Global Asteroidea Occurrence DataThis is a dataset to accompany a paper to Nature Ecology and Evolution: Carter, Hugh. F; Bribiesca-Contreras, G; Williams, Suzanne T. 2025. Deep seafloor diversity in Asteroidea...
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Hugh F Carter; Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras; Suzanne T Williams | Research | License not specified |
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 |
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment CollectionThis 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...
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Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
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...
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Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondritesThermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
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Helena Bates | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Mark My BirdThe 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...
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Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
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,...
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Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
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 |
Ocean Bottom Deposits CollectionThe Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |
Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibianMany island archipelagos sit on shallow continental shelves. During the Pleistocene, these islands were often connected as global sea levels dropped following glaciation. Given...
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Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Asia (excluding New Guinea)Collection event and specimen datasets used for the publication: Knapp S (2024) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in tropical Asia. PhytoKeys 245:1-1-6,...
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Sandra Knapp | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |