Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen...
Recently acquired from the Boston Society of National History, a rare specimen of rock, featuring intricate columnar jointing, will be on display in the Geologic Museum next week, according to Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. The specimen, originally coming from Germany, weighs over four tons and is considered a valuable addition not only for its fossils, but also for its relation to American rocks of the same ages, its formation covering a period of roughly 1,250,000 years...
...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years of the sea and the army whipped him into a tough physical specimen...
Ward's will sell a good human skeleton for $105. The company sends out catalogs to 20,000 select institutional and personal customers. Current lists show that a specimen board of 50 insect pests can be had for $12, a model of a Neanderthal skull or $2.50, a series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia...