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296 datasets found

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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

Wheat Through the Ages

The project entailed to stub-record, image and transcribe all of the Triticeae tribe from General Herbarium, British & Irish Herbarium and Percival Collection at the Natural...
Larissa Welton; Krisztina Lohonya; Peter Wing; Hillery Warner et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Malvales Digitisation

The Malvales collection comprises the records of all the sheet-mounted material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (June 2022). Each...
Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Larissa Welton; Krisztina Lohonya; Peter Wing et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Aphidoidea Slide Collection

The Aphidoidea collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted Aphidoidea material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of the project completion...
Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Joseph Deane et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioi...

The project "Data mobilisation for IUCN conservation assessments of global freshwater bioindicators" involved the rehousing, imaging and label data transcription of all the...
Katharine Holub-Swindell; Katharine Holub-Swindell; Robyn Crowther; Elizabeth Devenish et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Ceratopogonidae Slide Collection

The Ceratopogonidae Slide Collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of...
Daniel Hall; Louise Berridge; Joseph Deane; Phaedra Kokkini et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Convolvulaceae Digitisation

The Convolvulaceae collection comprises the records of all the sheet-mounted material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (September 2023)....
Ranee Om Prakash; Krisztina Lohonya; Hillery Warner; Larissa Welton et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Chrysopidae Collection

The Chrysopidae collection comprises the records of all the pinned material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (June 2023). Each specimen...
Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Skye Neal et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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

Small Orders Slide Collection

The Small Orders Slide Collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted material of Archaeognatha, Collembola, Diplura, Protura, Psocoptera, Thysanura and Zoraptera...
Larissa Welton; Larissa Welton; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Drepanidae Collection

The Drepanidae Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Drepanidae housed in the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum, London at the time...
Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Nicola Lowndes et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Plants from Fort St. George India collected by Samuel Browne in 1697

Samuel Browne (d. 1698) was a surgeon employed by the English East India Company (EIC) at Fort St. George, Madras (now Chennai) in India. In 1697, Browne sent a herbarium of...
Ranee Om Prakash Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Herbarium of William Bartram (1739 – 1823)

The renowned artist & naturalist William Bartram was born in in Kingsessing, near Philadelphia in 1739, the son of acclaimed horticulturalist John Bartram. His love of...
Debra Turner; Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances

Hans Sloane’s Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances originally consisted of 12,752 botanical specimens, most housed in small glass and wooden boxes. Sealed inside...
Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

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...
Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Fungarium Sequencing Project: Natural History Museum Samples

The Fungarium Sequencing Project (FSP) was launched in 2024 to sequence genomes of fungal type specimens across the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew), Royal Botanic Garden...
Muhammad Usman; Juliet Anderson; Mark Carine; Debra Turner et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution

UK Peatland species functional traits

This dataset provides plant functional trait information automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions for a curated set of UK peatland plant species. The...
Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit Research Creative Commons Attribution

Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance Survey

The moth ultraviolet (UV) reflectance survey dataset is constituted of images showing the portion above 360 nm of the UVA reflection of specimens belonging to 176 moth species....
Elisa Cane; Jonathan Laventhol; Sophie Ledger Collections Creative Commons CCZero

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