Sentence examples for history specimen from inspiring English sources

There is only one word for Damien Hirst's toothy tiger shark, which gapes as it appears to glide towards you, as this natural history specimen is given the illusion of movement by the refractive perspectives of a glass vitrine: surreal.

A sculpture by Berlinde De Bruyckere, enclosed in an old glass vitrine like a natural history specimen, is a pale gray wax figure of a naked man whose head and shoulders have been engulfed by tree roots and branches also cast in wax.

But they house about 99percentt of natural history specimens nationwide.

The walls around it are crammed with natural history specimens – impaled butterflies, glassed-in stag beetles.

Natural history specimens passed on to the Natural History Museum, while other items went to Kew gardens.

The opening of trade with the Americas kindled a similar interest in ethnographic and natural history specimens.

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.

The curator of the natural history specimens at the British Museum described them as "gross delusions" appealing to the "curiosity of the less informed".

She understood the necessity for proper documentation and preservation of fossils and other natural history specimens if they were to be of scientific value.

Then, in the 1820s, the natural history specimens in the royal collection (including the jawbone) were transferred to the Royal Museum of Natural History, one Copenhagen's first natural history museums open to the public.

Banks then traveled extensively, collecting plant and natural history specimens in journeys to Newfoundland and Labrador (1766), around the world with Captain James Cook (1768 71), and to Iceland (1772).