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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 |
UK Species Inventory - Master CopyA full copy of the UK Species Inventory, including all tables. This gives the ultimate in functionality but does require a copy of Microsoft Access (or similar database...
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Chris Raper | Citizen Science | 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 |
Clifford HerbariumThe herbarium contains over 3,000 specimens collected by George Clifford (1685-1760), a wealthy Anglo-Dutch merchant.
The Herbarium includes plants that were newly cultivated...
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Charles Jarvis | Collections | 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 Seaweed BreakthroughThe Seaweed Breakthrough initiative is a global initiative aimed to protect seaweeds through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2030 Breakthrough...
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Juliet Brodie; Ben Jennings; Patrick Sullivan; Elizabeth J, Cottier-Cook et al. | Research | License not specified |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History MuseumSir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present...
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Consuelo Sendino | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to JamaicaHans Sloane was a seventeenth-century doctor and collector. He amassed a vast amount of material that eventually formed the basis of the British Museum. In 1881, Sloane's...
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Charles Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
Lincolnshire Plants: Past and FutureLincolnshire Plants: Past and Future (popularly known as ‘LoveLincsPlants’) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) supported project in collaboration with the Lincolnshire...
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Kath Castillo; Fred Rumsey; Debra Turner | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Clayton HerbariumJohn Clayton (1694-1773) was a notable early collector of plant specimens in North America. From 1720 until his death, he was Clerk to the Court of Gloucester County in...
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Charles Jarvis | Collections | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
Hermann HerbariumThe collection of dried plants and drawings made in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for Paul Hermann in the 1670s possesses a special importance in being one of the first major collections...
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Charles Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
Part-processed Indonesian Fossil SpecimensCollections of marine invertebrates from the Miocene and Pliocene of East Kalimantan Indonesia that have not been identified to specific taxa so cannot be added to the NHMUK...
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Kenneth Johnson | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Plymouth University (Prof. Malcolm Hart) Microfossil CollectionThis is a collections level description of 12 cabinets from the research collection of Malcolm hart, donated in 2022 to the NHM.
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Stephen Stukins | Collections | |
The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) developed by the Natural History Muse...This document outlines the data and processes used for The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1. This document is available for...
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Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis | Research | Other (Non-Commercial) |
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" collections assessment exerciseThe 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...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical a...Here we provide machine-readable (csv files) and human readable (pdf files) tables of country, subregion and region averages for the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) and land...
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Adriana De Palma; Andrew Hoskins; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Luca Borger et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |