(Scientists had largely discounted the significance of a 1967 report of what appears to be the same parasite in single specimen of white-tailed deer in Texas).
Zhu-Liang Yang and Tai-Hui Li discovered the species by reexamining various herbarium specimens of white Amanita typically referred to as either A. verna or A. virosa.
The cuff, which required half a year to carve and polish, is set with an icicle-like specimen of jagged white crystal sprinkled with green epidote.
For all the brutal "civilizing" of this tiny specimen of the white man's burden, Mr. Thornhill adores her — both as a reminder of his dead son and increasingly, it seems, for herself, since she may also represent atonement for a mysterious day long ago (and upriver, of course) that he wishes he could take back.
The only known complete specimen of a fine white stoneware dating from about 1400 bce is decorated with chevrons (linked V-shapes) and a key-fret pattern, the shoulder motifs being reminiscent of those seen on contemporary bronze vessels.
He paused for a moment, undecided, a unique specimen of sartorial splendor — white Panama stuck on the back of his shiny shaved skull, yellow silk polo shirt dirtied slightly by the black of his bulging muscles, draped trousers of a brilliant pea green, tight waisted and slack hanging above size eleven shoes of freshly shined tan.
The only known complete specimen of a fine white stoneware dating from about 1400 bce (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C). is decorated with chevrons (linked V-shapes) and a key-fret pattern, the shoulder motifs being reminiscent of those seen on contemporary bronze vessels.
Zhang Yun Ying is a perfect specimen of grandmother, with bright white hair and profound wrinkles that get better when she smiles.
In 1877 Richard Bowdler Sharpe recognised two species, but recorded that the feather bases of the type specimen of C. coronoides were white.
Another great white specimen of similar size has been verified by the Canadian Shark Research Center: A female caught by David McKendrick of Alberton, Prince Edward Island, in August 1988 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off Prince Edward Island.
