Coast redwoods are also used extensively in Pacific horticulture (CA, OR, WA), in public parks, golf courses, highways and private landscapes; and are popular horticultural specimens used throughout the USA and in temperate climates around the world.
But what is most interesting about the flag-raising image is that it was a specimen of popular art, that it was not a painting or a statue.
The artifacts had been exhibited for more than a century at the Niagara Falls Museum, a private showcase for natural history specimens that was popular with tourists but unknown in the art world.
However, the presentation in popular media of new fossil specimens or new analysis of human fossils sometimes obscures just how much and how firmly we know about our fossil relatives and ancestors.
However, the pull-out specimen is more popular due to ease of construction and simplicity of the test.
However, despite many engineering materials like metals, polymers, ceramics and rocks, there is no popular test procedure and test specimen for determining a valid and representative KIc value for the asphalt concretes.
Forceps biopsy and pleural brush could be used through medical thoracoscope to obtain pleural cytopathological specimens, however the most popular used one was the forceps biopsy.
3D models of fossil specimens have become increasingly popular, providing more or less accurate reconstructions of volumes, spatial distribution, orientation and size of fossils in a sample as well as of biostratinomic and diagenetic processes.
This movie is an acceptable specimen of a currently popular genre, carefully trying to balance the sly humor and low-budget resourcefulness of earlier horror films with the bloodiness and digital showing-off currently in fashion.
Mr Strachan said: "It's a fine specimen and is already proving popular with visitors who often find it difficult to believe that such an exotic-looking creature could be living around our coastline".
At a time when theories of spontaneous generation were popular, and when most naturalists contented themselves with specimens pinned behind glass, Merian believed "in what could not be encased — the moment-by-moment shifts".
