The latest Concord specimen grants time a space that befits its very nature: free from constraints or ties.
Das was the unfortunate charged with reviewing the entire sprawling collection, four major museums including the internationally renowned 80,000-artefact Petrie archaeology and the 62,000-specimen Grant zoology collections, and a score more departmental museums, by visiting every store and turning out every cupboard.
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Permission to work with these specimens was granted by the curator (Thomas F. Duda, Jr). at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
After careful inspection, comparing the enigmatic Grant specimen with other zebras and the single quagga in the Natural History Museum collection, Gentry reached his conclusion: "Z581 can be taken quite safely as E. quagga," he wrote.
Granted, Specimen Days declines in quality as it goes along.
Much of the merchandise seems to have been in production for decades: there are books and journals with titles like Wardrobe Notes and Wine Memoranda, and at least one specimen that evokes Cary Grant more than it does Samuel Pepys: a little black book entitled Blondes Brunettes Redheads.
ALM developed the study concept, obtained IRB approval and grant funding, specimen collection, maintenance of database, PFGE of isolates, and manuscript preparation.
PLH-R, HAC, and LB participated in the design of the nested case-control study, were responsible for specimen collection, and obtained grant funding for the study.
PDA samples were obtained under a Western Institutional Review Board protocol (20040832) for a National Institutes of Health-funded bio-specimen repository (NCI P01 grant CA109552) and two American Association for Cancer Research/Stand up to Cancer (SU2C) sponsored clinical trials, 20206-001 and 2026-003.
Support for some specimen handling came from a grant from DAIDS (RO1 AI062333, to R.M.G).
