He would survey the region's wildlife and ship specimens back to London for sale to museums and wealthy collectors.
Their goal was to find the plant in flower, return in due season to collect seed, then see their delicate specimens back to Europe through varying climatic zones.
By the time of World War I, Andrews was trekking across China and Mongolia, shipping hundreds of rare specimens back to the museum and doing some spying for the United States Navy on the side.
I was just too far behind on documenting our last days finds and sending in the list to my colleagues at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to issue the export permit to allow us to take specimens back to the Academy for future studies.
Down House also became the hub of a postal web that eventually reached around the world, that sent out requests for information from Darwin, and that conveyed answers and specimens back to him.
We then transferred the specimens back to plates containing Ac4GalNAz (or to control plates) for an additional 12 h.
In China, the proportion of TB due to Beijing family strains in stored specimens going back to the 1950s was similar to the proportion among more recent specimens (12).
He found that specimens dating back to the nineteen-thirties were indeed already carrying the fungus.
On the face of it, little in Lena Herzog's earlier monographs prepares her audience for LOST SOULS (de.MO design, $54), photographs taken in "cabinets of curiosities," collections of anatomical specimens dating back to the 17th century.
Simply supported test specimens of back to back LCBs with aspect ratios of 1.0 and 1.5 were loaded at mid-span until failure.
