Conover reflects on the nature of roads by travelling six specimens, including a West Bank highway, an Andean logging route, and a Himalayan ice trail.
On March 26th she sailed into Manzanillo, in Mexico, bearing a trove of specimens including a dozen or so Pompeii worms.
Sotheby's will be offering several impressive specimens, including a large brilliant-yellow pillow-shaped diamond, at its Dec. 11 sale.
The exhibition will trace the evolution of the science of forensics, including fingerprinting and DNA evidence, borrowing from collections normally closed to the public such as the pathology museum at Bart's hospital, which is lending specimens including a liver with a stab wound, and the Met's "Black Museum", which is lending Crippen and Jack the Ripper material.
Dr. Barbara Thiers, the herbarium director, showed off some of the rarest specimens, including a fragile, tiny moss (Ulota darwinii) collected by Charles Darwin in Tierra del Fuego on the Voyage of the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, and a microscopic fungus collected on Dec. 12, 1900 by George Washington Carver.
The article contains several images of the specimens, including a brief movie once the ad is over.
In this paper seven different multiaxial fatigue criteria were used to estimate the fatigue lives of aluminium 7075-T6 plate specimens including a pre-treated fastener hole.
This latter species, known from Ethiopia and, possibly, Kenya at 4.4 million years ago, is the best known of the four and is represented by more than 100 specimens, including a partial skeleton (e.g., White et al. 2009).
Although Ynés Mexía didn't receive formal training in botany, she distinguished herself as a premier collector, gathering approximately 150,000 specimens including a new genus and several new species.
