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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 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

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. 
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...
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...
Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

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