So far, the Hambrechts have collected illustrations of more than 600 verses from about 130 artists.
Zalasiewicz ignored them, patiently explaining to me the import of his latest monograph, "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy," which ran to sixty-six pands and included illustrations of more than six hundred and fifty species.
This labored illustration of history, more imaginary than real despite documentary pretensions, is not exactly dreamlike.
What may be most interesting in all of this, for the outside observer, is the illustration of a more diverse Iranian religious establishment than we often credit.
Computer simulation of a model continuous-flow uranium biosorption process serves as a brief illustration of a more sophisticated approach to describing and predicting performance of dynamic sorption systems.
Perhaps it is an unfair comparison, given the huge appeal of Ashes tours down under, but by way of illustration more than 5,000 of the many thousands of England fans who went to Australia last winter went as part of the official Barmy Army party.
The visitor was meant to be transformed as he climbed through the levels of Borobudur, encountering illustrations of progressively more profound doctrines the nearer he came to the summit.
The book would have been helped had Gee included illustrations of the more exotic creatures he describes -- the Icthyostega (a fishlike, four-limbed animal) or the recently discovered Confuciusornis (a birdlike dinosaur).
Many of these vehicles date to the days before Guyana gained independence from Britain in 1966 -- an illustration of the effect more than two decades of isolationist policies can have on an economy.
The Neapolitan novels can be read, in part, as an illustration of how much more damaging such attitudes are for those who don't have the knowledge or resources to seek diagnosis.
