[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.
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.
One of his plates may hold a modernist bauble next to a specimen from the forest floor.
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.
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.
b Pathological examination of a specimen from the breast showed scirrhous carcinoma, a grade II invasive ductal carcinoma (×100 magnification).
c Pathological examination of a specimen from the right axillary lymph node showed metastatic cells from the invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast (×100 magnification).
