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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Collection specimens Specimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection DWC	Natural History Museum	Collections	CC0-1.0
Index Lot collection Index Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection CSV	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. CSV	Suzanne Ryder	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... DOCX	Natural History Museum	Collections	Open Data Commons Attribution License
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... CSV PDF	Jacek Wajer	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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
The Herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) This dataset integrates three data sources, namely: An inventory of the Sloane herbarium developed by Scott et al (2024); see... XLSX	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
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... XLSX PDF	Chris Raper	Citizen Science	License not specified
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection This 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... CSV	Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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
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 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
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Reassessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th century surface ocean indicator using X-ray microcomputed...	Stergios Zarkogiannis; Thomas Wood; Giles Miller; Stephen Stukins; Brett Clark	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
The seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum This dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated... XLSX	Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondrites Thermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. CSV	Helena Bates	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Diatoms Herbarium Collection The Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...	Edgley Cesar	Collections	Creative Commons CCZero
Mark My Bird The 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... CSV	Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney	Research	CC-BY-4.0
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... XLSX PDF	Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
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,... R PHY TRE STRU VCF CSV XML NEX LOG GZ ZIP	Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al.	Research	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) seeds stranded on the south-... Alignment of 399bp fragment of the nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer region comprising 132 samples of the Ipomoea batatas group, used by Minchin, Griffin and Carine... TXT	Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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