The three other rings in the exhibition/sale are all spectacular specimens of their time periods, sentiment, meaning and their culture place in history.
Campbell is considered a spectacular physical specimen — big, fast, long arms, and strong (he bench-pressed 225 pounds 34 times) — but also a raw talent.
So, when the opportunity arose to obtain a spectacular new specimen of a Stegosaurus, the museum embarked on a project that took nearly two years from its conception to the appearance of this iconic dinosaur centre-stage in our Earth Hall.
As I walk back and forth to school with my boys, we wind up collecting a lot of spectacular specimens.
Horlick's passion for rhododendrons is obvious: spectacular specimens tower over a visitor's head.
One of Mr. Whitehead's "spectacular specimens" fell out of a tree last year while he was touring the country in "Porgy and Bess".
However, this rarity may also be due to the incompleteness of the fossil record or to the bias of fossil collectors towards larger, more spectacular specimens.
Rumours had been flying around for years in the palaeontological community about a spectacular primate fossil specimen.
Several years ago at the Philadelphia Flower Show, I saw a spectacular award-winning specimen of the amaryllis Pamela, bearing dozens of star-shaped flowers.
Holburne Museum, Bath, until 5 March Memorial Taxidermist Jazmine Miles-Long explores the history of her art at a museum with a spectacular collection of stuffed natural history specimens.
