One of his plates may hold a modernist bauble next to a specimen from the forest floor.
In a hand-bound book, Mr. Andersson explained, taking a specimen from his shelf, those bands correspond to strings beneath the leather, cords that hold the book together.
[A40.] The 360-acre agricultural laboratory in Weybridge, England, that is testing a specimen from a Washington cow for mad cow disease has had plenty of experience.
They once fashioned a prosthetic beak for an injured hornbill in Jungle World, using a specimen from the American Museum of Natural History for the mold.
The face must be long and straight; a curved nose of the Nubian type disqualifies a specimen from the show ring.
"I've been on call, waiting for a specimen from the O.R., and I'll do a lesson with Jori," Dr. McClure said.
The Great Basin bristlecone pine (P. longaeva) is notable for being extremely long-lived, with a specimen from Nevada thought to be about 5,000 years old.
In 1935 Darwin collected a specimen from one of these invasive species during a visit to Santiago Island iaboard the HMS Beagle, which might also have brought rats from the UK or elsewhere along the ship's route.
The solution, of course, is for farmers and researchers to trade plants, using a cacao variety developed in, say, Ecuador to improve production in Côte d'Ivoire, or crossbreeding a specimen from the International Cocoa Genebank, in Trinidad, with one in Indonesia.
Milbert sent us a specimen from New York.' I think it improbable that Milbert's specimen was actually the Mediterranean species Scorpaena porcus — more likely it was a Plumier's pigfoot on its way north — but any fish enough like Scorpaena porcus to fool Cuvier and Valenciennes should do perfectly well in a bouillabaisse.
b Pathological examination of a specimen from the breast showed scirrhous carcinoma, a grade II invasive ductal carcinoma (×100 magnification).
