Sloane’s collection was not limited to one time period or one topic. Natural artefacts made up the largest part of Sloane’s collection. The works below cover Sloane’s botanical specimens within his collection, as well as his fossils, vertebrates, human specimens, insects, shells and more. The Enlightenment Gallery, room 1, at the British Museum includes many specimens from this part of his collection.

Cannon, John (1994) ‘Botanical Collections’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.136-149.

Cook, Jill (2003) ‘The nature of the earth and the fossil debate’, in Kim Sloan, Andrew Burnett, Enlightenment. Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century. The British Museum Press, London, pp.92-99.

Cook, Jill (2012) ‘The elephants in the collection: Sloane and the history of the earth,’ in Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, Michael Hunter, From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. The British Library, London, pp.158-167.

Clutton-Brock, Juliet (1994) ‘Vertebrate Collections’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.245-262.

Dandy, J.E., (1958) The Sloane Herbarium: an annotated list of the Horti Sicci composing it, with biographical accounts of the principal contributors. London.

Day, Michael (1994) ‘Humana. Anatomical, pathological and curious human specimens in Sloane’s museum,’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.228-244.

Fitton, Mike, Gilbert, Pamela (1994) ‘Insect Collections’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.278-290.

Hinz. P.A., (2001) ‘The Japanese plant collection of Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) in the Sir Hans Sloane Herbarium at the Natural History Museum, London.’ The Bulletin of the Natural History Museum London, Botany 31, pp.27-34.

Huxley, Robert (2003) ‘Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world’, in Kim Sloan, Andrew Burnett, Enlightenment. Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century. The British Museum Press, London, pp.70-79.

Huxley, Robert (2003) ‘Natural history collectors and their collections: simpling macaronis and instruments of empire’ in Kim Sloan, Andrew Burnett, Enlightenment. Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century. The British Museum Press, London, pp.80-91.

Jarvis, Charlie, Spencer, Mark, Huxley, Robert (2012) ‘Sloane’s plant specimens at the Natural History Museum’ in Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, Michael Hunter, From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collections. The British Library, London, pp.137-157.

Jarvis, C.E. and Cooper, J.H., (2014) ‘Maidstone’s woodpecker – an unexpected bird specimen in the herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane’ in Archives of Natural History 41:2, pp.230-239.

Nair, Savithri Preetha (2012) ‘…to be serviceable and profitable for their health: a seventeenth-century English herbal of East Indian plants owned by Sloane’ in Alison, Walker, Arthur, MacGregor, Michael, Hunter, Michael. From Books to Bezoars. Sir Hans Sloane and his Collection. The British Library, London, pp.105-119. 

Rose, Edwin D. (2017) ‘Natural history collection and the book. Hans Sloane’s ‘A Voyage to Jamaica (1707-1725)’ and his Jamaican plants.’ The Journal of the History of Collecting, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Thackray, John (1994) ‘Mineral and Fossil Collections’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.291-294.

Way, Kathie (1994) ‘Invertebrate Collections’ in Arthur MacGregor, Sir Hans Sloane. Collector, Scientist, Antiquary Founding Father of the British Museum. The British Museum Press, London, pp.263-277.

Wilkins, G L., (1953) A catalogue and historical account of the Sloane shell collection. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series, 1:1, pp.1-48.