Online collections
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Zoological specimens database
Search the Museum's digital collections for zoological specimens.
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Wallace Letters Online
Explore this amazing collection of letters from one of the world's most significant scientists British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913).
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Fossil and recent ostracod database
Browse collection titles or search by donor, collector, taxonomic level, stratigraphic location or country of origin.
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BioCase
The BioCase project is an established web-based information service providing researchers with unified access to biological collections in Europe while leaving control of the information with the collection holders
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Bird collection type specimen database
Search or browse bird type specimens and access catalogue data on holotypes, syntypes, lectotypes and neotypes.
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Botanical specimens
Search the Museum's digital collections for botanical specimens.
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Buckley collection database
Access a complete catalogue of the Buckley foraminifera slide collection.
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Duxbury collection database
Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts.
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Electronic inventory of European bird collections
Search the database containing the electronic Inventory of major European bird collections for content based on Dr. C. S. Roselaar 's original publication (2003).
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Entomology specimens
Search the digital collections for entomological specimens held at the Museum.
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Former Aberystwyth Microfossil Collection database
A catalogue of discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, including foraminifera, ostracods, coccoliths and conodonts.
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Former British Petroleum microfossil database
Search materials from over 3,500 individual well runs, including palynological and nannofossil slides from over 120 countries.
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Fossil and recent ostracod database
Browse collection titles or search by donor, collector, taxonomic level, stratigraphic location or country of origin.
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Heron-Allen slide collection database
Access a complete catalogue of the Heron-Allen foraminifera slide collection, including specimens collected during historic research voyages.
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Historical collections
Find out about the important fossil collections of Sir Hans Sloane,Carl Dietrich Eberhard König and Thomas Pennant, held at the Museum.
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Library catalogue
Search online for books, periodicals, artworks, maps and manuscripts.
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Mineralogy collection database
Search the database to find specimens in the Museum's mineralogy collections.
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Museum Archives catalogue
Browse or search online for Archive materials.
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Palaeontology specimen database
Search the palaeontology database for specimens held in the Museum's palaeontology collections.
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Plant diversity in Paraguay
Search a database of flowering plants and ferns from Paraguay and find out how plant inventories are aiding conservation.
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The George Clifford Herbarium
A prolific collector, Clifford employed Carl Linnaeus to catalogue his garden and herbarium.
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The Paul Hermann Herbarium
Hermann's dried plants and drawings represent the first major botanical collection from the East Indies.
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The John Clayton Herbarium
One of the earliest plant collectors in Virginia, Clayton contributed many type specimens to Linnaean classification.
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The Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium
Sloane amassed a collection so large it formed the foundation of the Natural History Museum. The Herbarium contains volumes from his pioneering voyage to Jamaica.
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Weird Chilean dinosaur is plant-eating theropod - 01/05/2015
Museum dinosaur expert Paul Barrett comments on a new species of dinosaur that has unusual mix of meat-eating and plant-eating features.