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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...
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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...
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Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Andrea Waeschenbach; Paul Taylor; Helen Jenkins | Research | License not specified |
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copyAn 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...
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Chris Raper | Citizen Science | License not specified |
American Phlebotominae types at the NHMDetails for the collection of American type specimens (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) held at The Natural History Museum, London.
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Paloma Helena Fernandes Shimabukuro; Zoe J. O. Adams | Collections | License not specified |
Global Asteroidea Occurrence DataThis 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...
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Hugh F Carter; Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras; Suzanne T Williams | Research | License not specified |
The State of the World's Seaweeds 2025The oceans are experiencing extraordinary human-induced threats from global climate change, overfishing, pollution and an increase in invasive non-native species. Seaweeds...
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Sophie Corrigan; Elizabeth J, Cottier-Cook; Phaik Eem Lim; Juliet Brodie | Research | License not specified |
Join the Dots collection-level descriptionsThe 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...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
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...
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Natural History Museum | 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...
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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...
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Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sedimentsThis 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...
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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 MuseumThis dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated...
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Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Diffuse infrared reflectance of CY carbonaceous chondritesThermal (~5 - 50 µm) infrared diffuse reflectance of the Y-86720, Y-86789 and B-7904 CY carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
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Helena Bates | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Diatoms Herbarium CollectionThe Diatoms Herbarium is an ancillary collection in the Diatoms Collections at the Natural History Museum. It comprises processed and unprocessed samples preserved dried...
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Edgley Cesar | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Mark My BirdThe 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...
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Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable SubstancesHans 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...
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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,...
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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...
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Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventoryFrom 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...
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Brad Scott; Victoria Pickering; Mark Carine | Collections | 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...
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Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |