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Collection specimens

Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections CC0-1.0

Index Lot collection

Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Wallace and Banks drawers

Drawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
Suzanne Ryder Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project

Project 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...
Jacek Wajer Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by The Natural History Museum, Lo...

A temporally limited release of The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1 is made available here for non-commercial use under a...
Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis Research Other (Non-Commercial)

The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) developed by the Natural History Muse...

This document outlines the data and processes used for The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1. This document is available for...
Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis Research Other (Non-Commercial)

The former British Petroleum microfossil collection

The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
Natural History Museum Collections 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...
Robin Whittaker; Ergian Musto Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergency

A csv file containing collector and identification records for herbarium specimens found that have been collected in the Museum grounds. Dates range from 1865 to 2022. As the...
Sandra Knapp; Chris Dixon; John Hunnex Collections Creative Commons Attribution

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...
John Whittaker; Giles Miller Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Earthworm Watch Participants

Anonymised data from participants who registered for the Earthworm Watch citizen science project which ran from April 2016 to August 2018. This data was used for the paper Who...
Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution

John Chainey Lepidoptera Collection

The John Chainey Lepidoptera Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material donated by John Chainey to the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum,...
Glory Turnbull; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Leo Le Good et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

The Herbarium of John Ray FRS (1627 – 1705)

John Ray F.R.S. (1627-1705) was the leading English naturalist of the 17th century. The son of a blacksmith, born in Black Notley in Essex, Ray was educated at Trinity College...
Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Unexpected high taxonomic diversity in the bryozoan family Horneridae (order ...

The taxonomically challenging cyclostome bryozoan family Horneridae is abundant and diverse in the waters around Aotearoa New Zealand. Using a combination of molecular and...
Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Andrea Waeschenbach; Paul Taylor; Helen Jenkins Research 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...
Chris Raper Citizen Science License not specified

American Phlebotominae types at the NHM

Details for the collection of American type specimens (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) held at The Natural History Museum, London.
Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro; Zoe J. O. Adams Collections License not specified

Global Asteroidea Occurrence Data

This 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...
Hugh F Carter; Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras; Suzanne T Williams Research License not specified

The State of the World's Seaweeds 2025

The oceans are experiencing extraordinary human-induced threats from global climate change, overfishing, pollution and an increase in invasive non-native species. Seaweeds...
Sophie Corrigan; Elizabeth J, Cottier-Cook; Phaik Eem Lim; Juliet Brodie Research License not specified

Join the Dots collection-level descriptions

The 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...
Natural History Museum Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Castniidae Collection

The Castniidae Collection comprises the records of all the pinned and spirit material of family Castniidae housed in the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum,...
Glory Turnbull; Glory Turnbull; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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