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Full text now available! Rediscovery of Disepyris semiruber (Kieffer) (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) in Southern Africa, with first description of the male, based on specimens in NHMUK (in part) : https://t.co/bCRZ2nCUqu

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2018-12-12

All this talk of big cows demands perspective! Certainly the body size is big (& there are some huge specimens), but please, it pales in horn size to the which is the largest extant horned animal on Earth! Just goes to show that the Watusi is the real Bos

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2018-11-28

Jenny argues the enjoyment people get out of taxidermy and other collections isn’t just limited to visitors — can get a real kick out of working with these specimens too! Tune in here: https://t.co/4f112UKsDK

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2018-11-26

We talk about the ‘ick factor’ of fluid specimens, visitor enjoyment of (and reactions to) collections, and how natural history has become kind of sexy again. Curious? Tune in here: https://t.co/4f112UsRMc

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2018-11-19

The renown Asa Gray was born in 1810. Gray exchanged a great deal of botanical knowledge and specimens with during his career, including this beautiful Egyptian grass basket which he donated to the Museum in 1869.

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2018-11-18

Mineralogy
Dr. Steven Chamberlain donated a collection of specimens from the Balmat Mining District in St. Lawrence County, NY. The NYSM now has the most complete & significant Balmat mineral collection that can be used for exhibitions, research, & education.

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2018-11-14

Happy Pictured here are 3 beautiful Helianthus verticillatus specimens. This only occurs in small sections of Tennessee, Alabama, & Georgia making it one of the many species of 🌻🌿🌼

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2018-11-08

ALICE our Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction equipment is a multi camera set up and software pipeline that allows up to 1000 specimens to be imaged per day and is unlocking insect collections at an unprecedented rate. Preprint: https://t.co/WDR9JuhFas

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2018-11-05

I’m gonna give the challenge a crack, credit to . Swipe to see the teaching lab museum collection - glass display cases, animals in ethanol, boxes and boxes of pinned insects, and some specimens in storage out the back.

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2018-11-01

🦑The really great shock came when we undid one tarpaulin. It seems that others as well as Lake had been interested in collecting typical specimens; for there were two here, perfectly preserved. They were the bodies of young Gedney & the missing dog🎨Crowsrock🦑#Lovecraft

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2018-10-22

This Jack the Giant Killer themed writing blank was filled in by one John Pierce Meade on the 31st of December, 1810. Blanks of this sort were given as presents to children to fill in with handwriting specimens. https://t.co/tiJN0Ixtqd

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2018-10-16

inktober inspired by specimens from the "ebayfriends" tumblr https://t.co/oqtL2rrxz7

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2018-10-14

Work in progress with and . This is a figure for a manuscript on historical teleosaurid specimens from Germany and England which is about ready for submission.

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2018-10-08

189/365— The west mines are known for flawless rock candy specimens. It occurs to me that I probably need to name this magical world but nothing comes to mind...I’ll think about it 😂 •
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2018-10-07

According to the preface of John Hill's "Exotic Botany", dried specimens were reconstituted for illustration by macerating them in warm water. Explore the 2nd ed. (1772) in for via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/1IiNCqBOzY

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2018-08-24

The moral of the story is, keep practicing kiddos, and one day your OCs will blossom into the beautiful specimens they were meant to be.
The glo up is real.
Aunty Lola believes in you all, get art buff 🎨💪✨

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2018-08-04

in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology.

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2018-08-03

Hey I painted one of your excellent stag beetle specimens.

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2018-07-02

Jean Baptiste Vérany's "Mollusques méditeranéens: Céphalopodes" (1851) describes specimens fished from the Mediterranean Sea and features chromolithographed plates depicting octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes. In via : https://t.co/LNTMPk4x1c

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2018-06-20

If this beautiful weather is making you want to go on an adventure, why not try a digital expedition instead? Help transcribe Kew's Specimens from Australia and Pacific Islands. Sign up, choose your expedition and start transcribing! https://t.co/SXfr2VYpEJ

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2018-04-19