Ticket-buyers might reasonably conclude that $850 of a $1,000 ticket will go to purchase specimens for the garden's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory greenhouse, or support its famous fieldwork.
We purchased specimens of Cyanea capillata (Scyphozoa), Clava multicornis, Ectopleura larynx, Laomedea flexuosa, and Pennaria tiarella (Hydrozoa) from the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole (www.mbl.edu) and Nemopsis bachei from the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab (www.gulfspecimen.org).org
The Indian Head design was apparently prepared by April, as on the twelfth of that month, a Mr. Howard wrote to Snowden that "I have learned that a new pattern piece for the cent has been struck off at the Mint [with] a head resembling that of the three dollar piece and on the reverse a shield at the top of the olive and oak wreath", and asking to purchase a specimen.
In a world before scuba diving, underwater photography or ocean life surveys, the Blaschkas' models proved an invaluable educational resource, with universities worldwide purchasing collections of glass specimens.
Among the specimens purchased from aquarium store #1, only sample 305.11.2 was morphologically similar to the Virginia zoanthid sample (Fig. 1, Fig. 2C).
Primary human mammary epithelial cells (pHMEC), obtained from reduction mammoplasty under Institutional Review Board approval, were a generous gift from Eric R. Hugo at The University of Cincinnati; cell lines and anonymous tissue microarray specimens purchased from the National Cancer Institute were considered to be exempt.
"You're not looking at bones but at carvings," said Mr. LeDray, who first used the material in 1995 when he recreated a tiny rocking chair from a bone purchased at a specimen shop.
The mammalian cerebral pyramidal neuron was a Golgi stained specimen purchased in 1969 from Ward's Sciences (West Henrietta, NY).
Purchase a good specimen.
