No longer could I knock on a door down the hall and expect some outstanding specimen of white trash to sling me a dub of some decent nugs.
(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).
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.
ONLY eight specimens of the northern white rhino are left alive on the planet, and they are all in captivity.
The index of hypsodonty is defined as: <img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009703.e001.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> Guérin [5] gave hypsodonty values for two specimens of P4 in white rhinos as 188.68 and 201.96, contrasting with black rhinos at 134.65 and 142.20.
Routine sepsis work up includes collection of blood cultures, other microbial specimens where appropriate, and measurements of white blood cell count, including differential and plasma levels of C-reactive protein.
Young specimens of Volvopluteus gloiocephalus have white gills so it is possible to mistake them for an Amanita and vice versa.
With institutional review board approval (University Cancer Center Frankfurt), specimens of normal human gray and white matter were collected and stored at -80°C until RNA extraction.
The majority of specimens obtained from white and yellowish brown segments exhibited minimal mononuclear cell infiltration, cardiomyocyte changes, and interstitial fibrosis, indicating inactive (subsided or healed) CM. White or yellowish brown endocardial colour, however, was also observed in other categories of heart diseases in the present and other studies.
