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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 |
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification ProjectProject 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...
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Jacek Wajer | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
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 Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
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Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Prof. Richard J. Aldridge conodont collectionAn initial listing of UK Silurian assemblage slides from the collection of Prof. Richard J. Aldridge formerly of the University of Leicester. The file synthesises data from the...
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Richard R. W. Knight | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment CollectionThis is a dataset to accompany a paper published in 2025 in the journal Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S....
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Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Micropalaeontology Collection citations and visitor numbersA dataset to support the figures in a publication in Revue de Micropaleontologie on the Natural History Museum Microfossil Collection. Data derived mainly from annotations in...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |
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 |
The former British Petroleum microfossil collectionThe database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
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Andrew S Henderson; Giles Miller; Geoff Eaton | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collectionA catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum.
The...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |
Conodont collection databaseThe database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Imperial College of London Royal School of Mines Micropalaeontological Collec...This dataset provides a drawer level listing of the Imperial College Royal School of Mines microfossil collection of mainly Foraminifera collected by Dr David Carter. It was...
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Jonathan Whittaker | Collections | License not specified |
John Whittaker's collection of micropalaeontological slides from his archaeol...This is a listing of all of the unregistered slides from John Whittaker's work on Archaeological Sites from the UK. Each row represents an assemblage slide of mixed...
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Robin Whittaker; Ergian Musto | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |