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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 |
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 |
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 |
The Fungarium Sequencing Project: Natural History Museum SamplesThe Fungarium Sequencing Project (FSP) was launched in 2024 to sequence genomes of fungal type specimens across the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew), Royal Botanic Garden...
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Muhammad Usman; Juliet Anderson; Mark Carine; Debra Turner et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
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 |
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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Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
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Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller | Research | 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 |
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 |
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 specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811)Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...
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Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Fossil Historical CollectionsThere are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100...
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Consuelo Sendino | 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 |