Sentence examples for specimen in hand from inspiring English sources

Those who describe species cannot always be certain that the specimen in hand has not been given a name by someone else in a different country and sometimes even in a different century.

The low rate of morphological specimen identification says little about the ability of taxonomists to identify a specimen in hand, but much about the difficulty of placing every specimen from a large survey into the hands of the appropriate specialist [ 23, 34].

"You can actually hold the specimen in your hand and study the computer program at the same time," Dr. Glover said.

In 20 years working as a zoologist, I had never held a live specimen in my hands.

These features are often small, requiring examination or measurement of specimens in the hand, reflecting the fact, repeated many times in the book, that those interested in birds shot them to collect unusual specimens.

With the blood specimen in his left hand, walking in a kind of distraction he had felt all morning, probably because of the dream and his restless night, he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs.

The natural stone sampled on the Church facade (see blue square in Figure 1) is a dacitic to rhyolitic welded ignimbrite, pink to violet in colour in hand specimen with white grains standing up from the matrix.

Dolomite occurs in both fluvial and aeolian sandstones (up to 28%, mean value 7.5%) showing sporadically 'spotty' purple-red-stained cements and sometimes in irregular band distribution in hand specimen (Fig. 5a).

Of course, some structures can be studied in hand specimens, which were preferably oriented when collected in the field.

Volume percentages, accurate to within 1 percent, can be estimated under the microscope by using a point-counting technique over a plane section of the rock; volumes also can be approximated visually in hand specimens in the field.

Nevertheless, as a consequence of their distinctive appearances, they are frequently recognized in hand specimens and become part of the name of the rock in which they are contained e.g., garnet mica schist.