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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; Chris Raper | Citizen Science | 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 |
Darwin's Fossil Mammals
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3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle.
Scanning,...
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Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Jennifer Pullar et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
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 |
UK Peatland species functional traitsThis dataset provides plant functional trait information automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions for a curated set of UK peatland plant species. The...
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Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Bound Volumes and Exsiccatae in the Botanical Collections at the Natural Hist...This dataset provides an overview of the bound volumes and exsiccatae preserved in the botanical collections of the Natural History Museum. For each of the 1320 items accounted...
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Norbert Holstein; Mark Carine; Edgley Cesar; Len Ellis et al. | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
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 |
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 |
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex VindobonensisThe Codex Vindobonensis Med. GR. 1 Der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (sometimes referred to as the Juliana Anicia codex and hereafter referred to as ‘The Codex’) is a...
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Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 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 |
Micropalaeontology student thesis collectionThe NHM holds micropalaeontology thesis slide collections from the University of Hull, University College London, Imperial College London and University College of Wales,...
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Library and Archives | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Ray Bate Collection of mainly Cretaceous ostracods from West AfricaThe dataset describes a named taxonomic reference collection of 311 slides of individual specimens as well as a listing of related assemblage slides covering 4 slide cabinets....
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Giles Miller; Jamie Rolt | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |