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Exiled and living rough, he is kidnapped and sent to Brazil to become a specimen for an inhuman research institute.

"We wanted to have a specimen for the hall," Tammy Pittman, the museum's co-director, said one recent Sunday.

To the Third Duke of Richmond, a graduate of Leiden University, this strange creature (something between a deer and a horse) was not so much a status symbol for a nobleman's menagerie as a specimen for scientific study.

Mr Wonka lurks in beggar's dress at the side of the stage, as if selecting a specimen for a social experiment.Tales of upward social mobility attempted or achieved are crowding the London stage.

At first, his field journal on the museum's website did not indicate he had killed the bird - but it was later clarified that it had been "collected as a specimen for additional study".

With his shirt thrown open during a rousing rendition of "Baba O'Riley" Mr. Daltrey — a specimen for his age, to be sure — unfortunately invited comparisons to his groupie-magnet self from the "Tommy" era.

Figure 2 shows the configuration of a test specimen, for a single evolutionary path, that of the A. minus.

A sample refers to a cell line or a tissue specimen for which RNA-seq data have been measured.

Fig. 1 Test setup with a specimen mounted for biomechanical testing.

Seven years later, on November 27, 1874, a specimen sold for $700 $$ today).

This model is an unusual specimen for a number of reasons.