Once they reach their destinations, the collectors hike in various directions, gathering several specimens of each type of plant they find before rejoining colleagues at the car at day's end.
Six of Cousteau's trusty and well-trained oceanauts lived in the structure for 30 days, performing all manner of experiments, as well as the precious gathering of specimens for study.
Although Ynés Mexía didn't receive formal training in botany, she distinguished herself as a premier collector, gathering approximately 150,000 specimens including a new genus and several new species.
He continued, "As life science became more professionalized and academic during the 19th century, however, the term "naturalist" increasingly came to take on its modern sense of either a professional or an amateur enthusiast in the field (as distinct from the lab) for whom direct observation of the natural world, cataloging, specimen gathering and collecting are primary".
Most of his expeditions took him to Yunnan province, in China -- a harsh and brutal China -- where he died at 58 after long years of flat-out adventure and prodigious specimen-gathering, in 1932.
But on several specimen-gathering expeditions, Rubinoff saw species he had thought were terrestrial living in the middle of streams.
After 4 years gathering live footage and visiting specimens in museums, the researchers classified birds around the planet by assigning scores across five characteristics: measurements, songs, plumage, behaviors, and geographical relationships with one another.
PB21584a, b, c, d (Fig. 4a, c; Fig. 5a, b) (designated here. A gathering with part and counterpart specimens, including slides of leaf cuticles).
We left our specimens behind in the gathering dusk.
