Norell argued, "These specimens are the patrimony of the Mongolian people and should be in a museum in Mongolia".
Most of these specimens are the harvest of the botanical garden's own worldwide collecting missions, pursued since 1897.
These specimens are exhibited in zoos in the United States and Europe.
These specimens are filed in cases according to families and genera, available for ready reference.
(Museum preservation makes a fish inedible, and in any case these specimens are the property of the federal government and beyond the call of bouillabaisse).
These specimens are organized according to genre (rather than date), from "Advertising" and "Album Amicorum" to "Walmart" and "Weaving".
For the first time these specimens are undergoing high-definition digital radiography in a $175,000 study that, with luck, will answer this crucial question: How can this 68-year-old exhibition best be saved?
If a new species is described based on a number of fossil specimens, it is common practice to make sure that these specimens are deposited in a collection where they can be studied by other scientists.
As Gregory Long, president of this National Historic Landmark, writes in his foreword, "some of these specimens are actually landmarks themselves" — like the double allée of tulip trees planted 110 years ago.
These specimens are organized thematically rather than chronologically, moving from the outside (a Baltimore painted screen door, a push lawn mower) in, and throughout the rooms of the house.
The specifications of these specimens are shown in Table 1.
