The British Museum MSS of Juvenal

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Taking the British Golf Museum Home

Over the last two and half years, I have been in the unique position helping to create CD-I discs while at the same time, I was the first end-user of CD-I in the United Kingdom. From the onset, it was always our intention to make a consumer disc as well as the museum discs, but it was a secondary consideration. Our first objective was to finish and open the British Golf Museum and then take thi...

The Memory Machine : sound and memory at the British Museum

Some Comments on “Drehem Tablets” in the British Museum

§1.1. Th ere have not been any archaeological excavations at Drehem and all of the tablets that are currently in collections were dug up unoffi cially and sold on the antiquities market. As a consequence, there is inevitably some uncertainty about the provenience of these tablets. Jones states that the Drehem fi nd was made, “presumably in 1909, but possibly as early as 1908. Th e discovery was...

Precocious Sexual Development in the Juvenal

In the course of trapping English Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in the Los Angeles area in the summer of 1952, three juvenal males with enlarged testes were taken. Histologic examination of the gonads of these individuals showed that all three were in breeding condition. In the descriptions of these juveniles, the following criteria of sexual maturity were used: 1. Bill color. The bill of Passer...