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Clayton Herbarium

John 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...
Charles Jarvis Collections CC-BY-SA-4.0

Hermann Herbarium

The 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...
Charles Jarvis Collections License not specified

Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens

Introduction This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they...
Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble Research Creative Commons Attribution

Artefacts

Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Global seabird plastic occurrence database

Data from the paper: Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds. 2026. Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Nia Potapova, Chrissie Potter, Alexander...
Stephanie Avery-Gomm; Nia Potapova; Chrissie Potter; Alexander Bond et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

CaSSIS Resampled Data Record (CaRDR): A Near-Global Multispectral View of Mar...

The CaSSIS Resampled Data Record (CaRDR), provides a near-global "CaSSIS-style" four-band multispectral view of the martian surface at a spatial resolution of ~90 m/pixel. By...
Joseph McNeil; Roger Stabbins Research Creative Commons Attribution

Drepanidae Collection

The Drepanidae Collection comprises the records of all the pinned material of Drepanidae housed in the Lepidoptera Collection at the Natural History Museum, London at the time...
Peter Wing; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo; Nicola Lowndes et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Small Orders Slide Collection

The Small Orders Slide Collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted material of Archaeognatha, Collembola, Diplura, Protura, Psocoptera, Thysanura and Zoraptera...
Larissa Welton; Larissa Welton; Louise Berridge; Emma Bonzo et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Part-processed Indonesian Fossil Specimens

Collections 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...
Kenneth Johnson Collections Creative Commons Attribution

3D Cetacean Scanning

3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

First report of the biomineral whitlockite from the fossil record of holoceph...

Data from paper: First report of the biomineral whitlockite from the fosssil record of holocpehalans submitted to Royal Society Open Science All the images featured in the...
Esther Manzanares Ubeda; Zerina Johanson; Jens Najorka; Joseph Razzell Hollis et al. Research

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...
Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Prof. Richard J. Aldridge conodont collection

An 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...
Richard R. W. Knight Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Summary Statistics Echinoid Collection

Summary Statistics derived from a full shelf audit compared to CMS/GBIF data
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...
Chloe Victoria Griffiths; James Witts; Emma Bernard; Julie C.S. Brown; Richard John Twitchett Research Creative Commons Attribution

SPME GCMS data for bespoke conservation box

Solid phase microextraction (SPME) GCMS volatile compound data collected from a bespoke enclosure constructed from foamboard, acid-free card, plastazote foam, Tyvek and a final...
Wren Montgomery; Fabiana Portoni Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Coral Reef Sand Data for Training SandE

This repository contains all the training data used to train the Sediment Analysis Neural-network Data-engine (SAND-e). SAND-e was created as part of the PhD thesis of G....
George William Harrison; Teigan Georgia Collins; Nadiezhda Santodomingo; Kenneth Johnson et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Micropalaeontology Collection citations and visitor numbers

A 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...
Giles Miller Collections License not specified

Fossil and recent ostracod collections

A collections level dataset of fossil and recent ostracods in the collections at the Natural History Museum.
Giles Miller; Adrian Rundle Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The former British Petroleum microfossil collection

The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
Andrew S Henderson; Giles Miller; Geoff Eaton Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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