Our case study concerns the symmetry and asymmetry of corallites in a specimen of colonial coral (Galaxea sp).
In 1900 the Crown Agents for the Colonies sent three albums of postage stamps made on their order for colonial governments and then sent specimens of all future stamps commissioned.
Henry H. Slater reported that he saw a single specimen in south western Rodrigues during his three-month stay to observe the 1874 Transit of Venus, and assistant colonial secretary William J. Caldwell saw several specimens in 1875 during his own three-month visit.
They found a simple but gracious Civil War-era colonial on six acres with specimen trees and a tennis court.
The first, termed the "colonial" phase, was characterized by expeditions that collected specimens from the colonies and shipped them to museums in Europe, where they were cataloged and described, often in beautifully illustrated volumes.
Explorers, scientific-minded military officers and colonial officials, and merchants — not just British — collected specimens, mapped unknown lands and recorded observations in every corner of the globe.
Octocoral specimens were identified through examination of colonial features under a dissecting microscope and dissection of sclerite layers, with observations with both a compound microscope and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (unpublished data).
Well-characterized clinical isolates were from respiratory specimens wherever possible, and were identified by colonial morphology, standard biochemical methods, VITEK-2 (bioMérieux, Basingstoke, UK), Microflex matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Bruker, Coventry, UK), and sequencing, as appropriate.
The Nigerian pygmy hippopotamus ranged in the Niger River Delta, especially near Port Harcourt, but no reliable reports exist after the collection of the museum specimens secured by I. R. P. Heslop, a British colonial officer, in the early 1940s.
Many collections were sent to Europe for study during the American colonial period, and checklists of marine species were compiled as studies of the specimens were published.
