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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

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

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,...
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...
Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine Research Creative Commons Attribution

The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by The Natural History Museum, Lo...

A temporally limited release of The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1 is made available here for non-commercial use under a...
Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis Research Other (Non-Commercial)

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...
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...
Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection

The Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand...
Giles Miller Collections License not specified

Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibian

Many island archipelagos sit on shallow continental shelves. During the Pleistocene, these islands were often connected as global sea levels dropped following glaciation. Given...
Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection

An interim listing of John Murray's H.M.S. Challenger Sediment Collection. This is intended to accompany a forthcoming publication on that collection. Some parts are incomplete...
Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

CT scans of H.M.S. Challenger sediments

This represents the ct scan dataset from a paper entitled "Assessing the HMS Challenger collection as a late 19th Century physicochemical surface ocean indicator using computed...
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

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

Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Asia (excluding New Guinea)

Collection event and specimen datasets used for the publication: Knapp S (2024) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in tropical Asia. PhytoKeys 245:1-1-6,...
Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for China

This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in China. Each location Lat and Long has been...
Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya Research Creative Commons Attribution

"Join the dots" collections assessment exercise

The files submitted here form the backbone to a 2018 collections assessment exercise at the Natural History Museum and support a methodology paper submitted to Museum Management...
Giles Miller Collections Creative Commons Attribution