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Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Angiosperm functional traits extracted from botanical descriptionsThis dataset provides a large-scale compilation of plant functional traits automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions of flowering plants. The taxonomic...
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Global seabird plastic ingestion databaseData from the paper: Global seabird plastic ingestion varies across phylogeny but not behavioural traits. 2026. Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Nia Potapova, Chrissie Potter, Alexander...
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Stephanie Avery-Gomm; Nia Potapova; Chrissie Potter; Alexander Bond et al. | 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...
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Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Summary Statistics Echinoid CollectionSummary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data
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Hugh F Carter | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Slimehead size through time: testing the temperature-size relationship in Lat...As global temperatures rise, fish are predicted to become smaller. Body size is a fundamental trait that impacts many aspects of an animal's life history and ecology, and...
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Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Coral Reef Sand Data for Training SandEThis repository contains all the training data used to train the Sediment Analysis Neural-network Data-engine (SAND-e). SAND-e was created as part of the PhD thesis of G....
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George William Harrison; Teigan Georgia Collins; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Kenneth Johnson et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Fossil and recent ostracod collectionsA collections level dataset of fossil and recent ostracods in the collections at the Natural History Museum.
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Giles Miller; Adrian Rundle | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergencyA csv file containing collector and identification records for herbarium specimens found that have been collected in the Museum grounds. Dates range from 1865 to 2022. As the...
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Sandra Knapp; Chris Dixon; John Hunnex | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Earthworm Watch ParticipantsAnonymised data from participants who registered for the Earthworm Watch citizen science project which ran from April 2016 to August 2018. This data was used for the paper Who...
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Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis | Citizen Science | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Plants from Fort St. George India collected by Samuel Browne in 1697Samuel 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...
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Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for ChinaThis 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...
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Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |