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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
UK Species Inventory - Simplified Copy An 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... XLSX PDF	Chris Raper; Chris Raper	Citizen Science	Creative Commons Attribution
Catalysts for change: museum gardens in a planetary emergency A 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... XLSX	Sandra Knapp; Chris Dixon; John Hunnex	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
UK Peatland species functional traits This dataset provides plant functional trait information automatically extracted from published taxonomic descriptions for a curated set of UK peatland plant species. The... XLSX	Ana Claudia Araujo; Ben Hartley; Neil Brummit	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances Hans 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... XLSX PDF	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... XLSX	Debra Turner; Fred Rumsey; Mark Carine	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis The 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... XLSX	Hanouf Al-Alawi; John Hunnex	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Summary Statistics Echinoid Collection Summary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data XLSX	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... XLSX	Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Earthworm Watch Participants Anonymised 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... XLSX	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 Museum This dataset represents over three thousand seed plants fluid collection at the Natural History Museum that have been recently recurated with 70% IMS (Industrial methylated... XLSX	Ranee Om Prakash; Geoff Dart; Gabriella Gilliat; Kathryn Campion; Ranee Om Prakash	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Micropalaeontology student thesis collection The NHM holds micropalaeontology thesis slide collections from the University of Hull, University College London, Imperial College London and University College of Wales,... XLSX	Library and Archives	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for Australia This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in Australia. Each location Lat and Long has... XLSX CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Database of the NHM Fossil Porifera Collection with drawer label content Database of 752 entries with drawer label content concerning hand specimen and slide cabinets. The data recorded includes taxa, geographic site and stratigraphic locations of... XLSX	Consuelo Sendino	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution
Insect Pollinators Archive An up to date dataset of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, A multi-institution initiative with the NHM, BBSRC and The University of Edinburgh. The archive is held at the... XLSX	Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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