The New Yorker, December 9, 1961 P. 45 A Bostonian reports that among some specimens of Americana in Goodspeed's Book Shop, on Beacon Hill, he noted a bright new dime, and told a Goodspeed clerk about it.
Some specimens of a plant species may take a tree form, whereas others, under different conditions, may assume a shrub or arborescent form e.g., sumacs, willows, and spruces.
Due to the unpredictable nature of fluorescence, some specimens of a mineral manifest it, while other seemingly similar specimens, even those from the same geographic area, do not.
Talk story about the New Cinema Festival I, put on by the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, a society of avant-garde film-makers, at the Astor Place Playhouse, 434 Lafayette St .Stan Vanderbeek showed some specimens of his recent work.
His first publication, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764), which contains English translations with historical notes, secured his reputation as a scholar and critic.
In my present line of duty, however, I have decided that I ought to take a look at some specimens of this school of writing, which has grown so prodigiously popular and of which the output is now so immense that this department has to have a special editor to deal with its weekly production.
By Miriam Mallett and John McCarten The New Yorker, December 9 , 1961P. 45 A Bostonian reports that among some specimens of Americana in Goodspeed's Book Shop, on Beacon Hill, he noted a bright new dime, and told a Goodspeed clerk about it.
He did not know what to expect and imagined he might encounter some specimen of pimp the dagger-dark madam or tracksuited thug but it was a petite black girl who answered his knock and asked him who his appointment was with.
It was possible to obtain identifications only to genus level for some specimens, some of which may represent new species.
In 1966 1967 Harry B. Whittington found another good specimen, and in 1975 he published a detailed description based on very thorough dissection of some specimens and photographs of these specimens lit from a variety of angles.
Amazingly, some individual specimens of Welwitschia have been estimated to be 1,500 to 2,000 years old.
