Like a butterfly pinned to cotton, the accused becomes a specimen.
Once an object comes through the Smithsonian's door, it becomes a specimen, to be handled with white cotton gloves: iPhone cases, a whoopee cushion, emery boards, bottle openers, plastic signs, and dozens and dozens of lapel buttons.
After a series of adventures and hijinks, such as a surprise late night trip to the University chaplain, the bear eventually became a specimen in the University's museum.
The reptile had been plucked from its arboreal perch in what is now Papua New Guinea, catalogued in a French naturalist's journal, and packed up to become a holotype a specimen that serves as a physical reference for all others of its kind.
Vassar, where I teach, is one of those campuses that seems to typify, for some, how wacky and permissive higher education has become — a readymade specimen for those seeking to depict the twenty-first-century American college at its most insular and navel-gazing.
"I will become a clinical specimen," she tells him.
Due to the relatively easy preparation of such tubes by our injection method using commercial samples, we foresee that for testing the resolution and setting up of new generation electron microscopes, TPPS4 aggregates will become a benchmark specimen.
The reptile had been plucked from its arboreal perch in what is now Papua New Guinea, catalogued in a French naturalist's journal, and packed up to become a holotype — a specimen that serves as a physical reference for all others of its kind.
She has become an exquisite specimen.
It became a "type specimen" — a physical example on which all subsequent descriptions of the species were based.
