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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
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... CSV PDF	Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E... Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller	Research	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... CSV PDF	Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al.	Collections	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... CSV	Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
The herbarium specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811) Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...	Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
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... XLSX	Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine	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
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis The Codex Vindobonensis Med. GR. 1 Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (sometimes referred to as the Juliana Anicia codex and hereafter referred to as ‘The Codex’) is a... XLSX	Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventory From 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... CSV PDF	Brad Scott; Victoria Pickering; Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
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 Fossil Historical Collections There are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100... JPEG TIFF	Consuelo Sendino	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... TIFF JPEG PDF	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Lyell Collection - List of specimens Lyell Collection with identifications, and specimen numbers CSV	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Lincolnshire Plants: Past and Future Lincolnshire Plants: Past and Future (popularly known as ‘LoveLincsPlants’) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) supported project in collaboration with the Lincolnshire... PDF	Kath Castillo; Fred Rumsey; Debra Turner	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens Introduction This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they... CSV	Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Artefacts Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution