In one, he had highlighted a passage about the relative commonness of T. bataar, which, he believed, underscored his point that his specimens were scientifically unimportant.

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He moved to New York when his patron had to sell his collection of bird specimens to the American Museum in order to pay off a blackmailer.

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The poets have been matched to collections at Cambridge University, which include objects such as Captain Scott's farewell letter to his wife and Charles Darwin's zoological specimens.

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Dice Iida-Klein and his wife, Briohny Smyth, are awesome physical specimens and definitely seemed pretty cool and nice when I met them in a yoga inversions workshop.

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But Defenders are notoriously difficult to find and import to the U.S. So the 28-year-old Chicago native founded his own company to scour North America and Europe for vintage specimens.

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He sold his plunder to map dealers who asked few questions in a market hungry for rare specimens of high quality.

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Poignantly, the exhibition includes a handful of rocks, part of a 35lb load of geological specimens found on a sledge with the bodies of Scott and two of his polar companions.

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When not prescribing purges and pills to his sickly employer and his friends, Sloane crisscrossed the island on horseback or on foot, collecting plant and shrub specimens, guided by slaves from the sugar plantations with knowledge of local medically useful seeds and grasses.

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