Some chapters use sketches of reindeer, cattle or camels to show fur marks, ear marks and brands: one chapter (Schlee) devotes an Appendix of no less than 23 pages to 46 sketches of camel brands - nicely drawn, but it is hard to see to what purpose in a collection of this nature.
It seems strange that artists should need permission to copy works of art in a museum these days, when the purpose of establishing a collection of historical paintings in American museums, and elsewhere in the new world, was so that artists would have original paintings to study.
For this purpose, we assembled a collection of ten clade C envelope genes with diverse sequences.
Two main types of baseline data exist: a) measurements that serve as negative controls within a given experiment, and b) experiments that were carried out for the purpose of creating a collection of default states.
For this purpose we produced a collection of cDNAs derived from four different tissues belonging to four different adult animals of three diverse sheep breeds.
For the purpose of creating a collection of cDNA for printing onto microarrays, a clonal isolate of a D. pulex / D. pulicaria hybrid (called log52) was cultured under standard laboratory conditions by Jim Haney (University of New Hampshire) within a large, aerated, 200 liter container of filtered lake water by feeding a concentrated monoculture of green algae (Scenedesmus acutus).
"Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, what has emerged, as the company has maintained all along, is a document that Steve Jacobs actually ordered for his own personal purposes and is simply a collection of meaningless speculation.
For our purposes a gene is a collection of transcripts, also called splice forms.
Sometimes an exhibition does not need a big theme or a purpose; it can just be a collection of beautiful, powerful pictures.
There is no sense here of a team emerging, of a shape and a purpose being found, simply of a collection of parts poking out in various places, occasionally offering the odd misleading sparkle of hope, before collapsing back into a froth of confusion.
