Two Palaces by Bartolomeo F. Rastrelli According to Drafts from Friedrich Bergholtz collection, Stockholm National Museum

A Pollack Whale from Florida Presented to the National Museum by the Miami Aquarium Association

Among tlie whalebone whales found on the Atlantic coast of North America the Pollack Wliale {Balmnoptera horealis) is the species about whose occurrence the least is known. Hitherto the only recorded eastern American specimens have been some blades of baleen from Newfoundland, in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and one jaw, several blades of baleen, and two ribs from Chatham Light,...

From Palaces to Yurts: Why Requirements Engineering Needs Design Thinking

T he German saying " von Palästen zu Zelten " compares different systems to different levels of flexibility and agility — that is, " from palaces to yurts. " Requirements engineering systems are geared for developing information system palaces and aren't what's needed for today's world of rapidly changing, app-enabled products. These Web and mobile apps are small, require rapid development, mus...

A collection of sea spiders (Pycnogonida: Pantopoda) in the National Museum, Prague (Czech Republic)

The arachnological collection of the National Museum, Prague contains material preserved in ethanol and a microscopic slide of recent sea spiders (Pycnogonida: Pantopoda). The collection is small, containing only twelve specimens. A revision of all of them revealed the presence of nine species from five families: Anoplodactylus lentus Wilson, 1878, Boreonymphon abyssorum (Norman, 1873), Callipa...

The Eton Myers collection virtual museum

The digitisation of museum collections provides great opportunities for broad communication and access. However, currently the majority of online ‘virtual’ museums present information two-dimensionally. Three-dimensional data capture using laser scanning provides the potential to generate 3D virtual objects that can be used for a much greater interactive experience. This paper presents the resu...

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