A collection of 29 birds from the island of New Britain is described. It was made by Else Hoff in 1908 and perhaps in surrounding years, but certainly before 1927, and is now deposited in the National Museum in Praha, Czechia.

A total of nine species of the family Braconidae and five species of the family Ichneumonidae are reported as new for the Czech Republic. Trachyusa nigrothoracica (van Achterberg & O’Connor, 1990), Streblocera fulviceps Westwood, 1833, Diospilus nigricornis (Wesmael, 1835), Eubazus tibialis…

Natural history museums play a crucial role because their collections provide essential biological data for scientists, educators and the public. Greek centipedes in the natural history collection of the National Museum of the Czech Republic in Prague (NMPC) were mainly collected during expeditions…

This study details the verification of documented biological family relationships in the skeletal remains of 9 members of the Dietrichstein princely family from their tomb in Mikulov, Moravia, using skeletal morphology. Another goal was to determine the degree of morphological similarity to other…

In 1872, the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (today the National Museum) acquired the private mineral collection of Josef Hieronymus Zeidler, abbot of the monastery in Prague at Strahov. The collection is referred to as private because there were two mineralogical collections in the…

During his short life, Karel Holub, together with his father Karel Holub Sr. (a tannery worker), assembled an extensive collection of fossils from the Bohemian Lower and Middle Ordovician. Due to his poor living conditions, he was unable to study palaeontology and instead became a teacher in rural…

A bat belonging to the family Molossidae was discovered on the eastern shore of Săo Vicente Island, Cape Verde Archipelago (approx. coordinates 16°50’45’N, 24°52’15’W) on 3 October 2023. The record represents a fourth bat species, and third bat family documented from the north-western island group…

We summarized records of the Swinhoe’s Rail and reconstructed its breeding range, winter range and migration ways. We distinguished two evolutionarily significant units within Swinhoe’s Rail: a continental and a Japanese. The continental form breeds mainly in the borderland between China and the…