It compared well, he noted, with a specimen in the botanic garden of Cambridge University.
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For the provenance-conscious, the most noteworthy item in this sale is a specimen of azurite on malachite with a noble past.
Two patients lie asleep on operating room tables, each with an inflamed appendix demanding to be relocated to a specimen jar.
This later turned out to be a specimen ballot of the kind distributed to observers and the media, and which he had asked for officially.
In fact, Mac hacker Charlie Miller has performed a vivisection of the exploit, and what he found seems to be a specimen of true countersecurity brilliance.
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According to a specimen 2011 census on the Office for National Statistics website, they will also ask about "same sex civil partnership status" for the first time.
Miles, whose company has been excavating, cleaning and mounting fossilized dinosaur remains for 20 years, has never sold a specimen at auction, instead negotiating directly with museums while eschewing private collectors.
He proposed yet another moniker dussumieri named after another Frenchman and referring to a tortoise specimen stored in a Dutch museum, which had been obtained from Aldabra in the late 1800s.
Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
The DNA samples used to identify a "true" wildcat include a Victorian specimen kept in the British Museum - providing a sample with 63, 000 genetic markers.
Chances are a charity near you is planning a designer showcase and wants a willing specimen.
Then come fossils, dinosaurs, evolution and paleontology, including a new specimen, uncovered in Alaska, named Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum for the Perot family.
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In 2006, he designated a tortoise specimen at the Smithsonian museum as the new type specimen for the Aldabra tortoise, which he continued to call gigantea.
His performance is large-spirited comic acting: a pure specimen of Celtic soulfulness, the magical substance that everyone else in the movie has been trying to produce synthetically.
At just nine feet long, the Dryosaurus' relatively petite size could make it attractive to a private collector interested in displaying a Jurassic specimen in his living room.
The Chattanooga Volkswagen plant must appear a robust specimen.
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The scientists found a way to chemically remove the lipid fats that normally make brain tissue opaque, in effect turning any postmortem brain specimen into a picture window that reveals its internal structure.
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The ideal person would still seem to be someone with composure, a self-controlled specimen of high esteem.
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The mayor there, Milorad Dodik, is that rare Bosnian specimen, a Serb who opposes an ethnic carve-up of Bosnia.
In that mock epic, the manacled, nearly naked Charlton Heston is rated an interesting specimen by a variety of simian overlords.
Liquid cytology involves placing the smear specimen in a liquid for transport.
Sereno came across the specimen as a graduate student while doing research in a Harvard University laboratory and intended to write about it immediately.
The ONS is using the questions in the specimen census in a series of "rehearsals" but says it does not anticipate making major changes.
The perfect specimen should have a golden and crunchy crust, with a contrastingly soft and spongy white interior -- and should spring back into shape when squeezed.
One of the new specimens, known as KMN-ER 62000, has a face like the type specimen of Homo rudolfensis (the fossil that defines the species, if species it turns out to be), though it seems to be from an adolescent, whereas the type specimen is an adult.
Using an antibody marker, Kraus selects the stem cells from a larger population, adds a growth mixture and places the specimen in an incubator for three weeks.
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