Collectors of minerals, insects, seashells, and plants may use microscopes as tools to uncover features that help them classify their collected items.

During this long trip he collected many plants and animals.

The plants are ‘ tapped ’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber.

It contains a collection of nearly 750, 000 pressed plants, collected over the garden's two-hundred-year history.

He steadily created a renowned botanical masterpiece on the estate, achieved primarily with many of the great variety of foreign plants he had collected on his extensive travels around the world, particularly to Australia and the South Seas.

The Bounty remained in Tahiti for five idyllic months, during which over 1000 plants were collected, potted and transferred to the ship.

In 1791, Bligh commanded a second expedition with the Providence and the Assistant, which collected live breadfruit plants in Tahiti and transported these to St Helena, in the Atlantic, and St Vincent and Jamaica in the West Indies.

Ibn Bassal then founded a garden in Seville, most of its plants being collected on a botanical expedition that included Morocco, Persia, Sicily and Egypt.

This herbarium consisted of duplicates sorted out from Linnaeus ' personal herbarium and other plants collected by his son.

Frémont collected a number of plants on his expeditions, including the first recorded discovery of the Single-leaf Pinyon by a European American.

On April 23, 2009, Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) and eight other senators introduced legislation to provide " rebates " from a $ 30 billion federally managed fund into which nuclear power plants had been paying, so as to refund all collected funds if the project was in fact cancelled by Congress.

In his two years of travel, Lamarck collected rare plants that were not available in the Royal Garden, and also other objects of natural history, such as minerals and ores, that were not found in French museums.

Since all native sundews species are protected in many parts of Europe and North America, extracts are usually prepared using cultivated fast-growing sundews ( specifically D. rotundifolia, D. intermedia, D. anglica, D. ramentacea and D. madagascariensis ) or from plants collected and imported from Madagascar, Spain, France, Finland and the Baltics.

Edward Bach thought that dew collected from the flowers of plants contains some of the properties of the plant, and that it was more potent on flowers grown in the sun.

He collected plants and animals while staying with Jiang, a supportive Chinese vegetable storekeeper.

In January 1892 he returned to Jacksonville and worked on the plants he had collected in Florida and Cuba at Jiang's.

He collected insects and plants, made microscope slides and colored illustrated manuals, read hundreds of books, completed a draft for the English translation of Hojoki: The Ten Square Feet Hut co-authored with Frederick Victor Dickins, and proofread Primal Text of Japan also by Dickins.

The market offers many plants such as orchids that have been collected and farmed across the province.

Fruits are mostly collected from wild plants growing on publicly accessible lands, notably Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, parts of England, Alpine countries, Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and northern parts of Turkey and Russia.

As a botanist, Smuts collected plants extensively over southern Africa.

In 1820 – 1825, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, he collected thousands of specimens of plants and animals.

* Water: Tradition holds it that the medicinal plants mentioned above are most effective when dipped in water collected from seven different springs.

This was an important use in the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal, where the plants collected were known as moliço.

Shells, insects, exotic fruits and flowers began to be collected and traded, and new plants such as the tulip ( imported to Europe from Turkey ), were celebrated in still life paintings.

" In this voyage of fourteen weeks I collected those few plants upon Van Diemen's Land which had not been familiar to me in New South Wales ," he wrote to Banks, " and have done myself the honour of submitting them to your inspection.

However, they are called something entirely different in Jamaica ( Butterbirds ) where they are collected as food, being that they are very fat as they pass through on migration.

The collection includes artifacts recovered during excavations directed by Dr. Charles A. Hoffman, Jr. on the islands of Antigua and St. Kitts, a study collection derived from the excavations directed by Dr. Kathleen A. Deagan from the sites of En Bas Saline and Puerto Réal, Haiti, a collection of important artifacts donated by Mr. Leon Wilder that were surface collected from sites in Grenada and a number of artifacts recovered from sites in Jamaica and Grenada that were recently donated by Mr. Geoffrey Senior.

He collected over 20 caps for the ' Tico's ' and played his final international in a FIFA World Cup qualification match against Jamaica on 11 May 1997.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

Some ( usually less than one percent of collected shards in most of the Bahamas, about ten percent in the Caicos Islands ) sand-tempered pottery was imported from Cuba and / or Haiti.

He was transporting 500, 000 silver pesos collected from the citizens of Havana, Cuba, to fund supplies for the siege and payroll for the Continental Army.

The Cuban National Assembly Constitution and Legal Affairs Committee tabled the Varela Project citizens ' initiative and responded with a counter initiative, the petition for which collected 8. 1 million signatures, to request that Cuba's National Assembly amend the constitution to state " Socialism and the revolutionary political and social system ... are irrevocable ; and Cuba will never again return to capitalism.

This is also of great importance where the Chart Datum was collected more than fifty years prior, as for example in the Bahamas ( 1950's ) or in Cuba ( 1930's ) and has not since been updated, verified, or sounded electronically.

During the Spanish-American War Van Deman collected information on the military capabilities of Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines and had charge of the White House war map.

The collection contains much material collected by other, mostly anonymous German entomologists from Germany and other parts of Europe. There is also material collected in ( not by Loew ) :-Brasilien, Bismark Arch Ralum, Bogota, Columbien, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Carolina, Chile, Sumatra, Soekaranda, Montivide, Askhaabad, Transcaspian, Amboine, Klein-Asien-Asia Minor, Arab fel., Andalusia, Griechenland, Santiago, Lapland, N. Kamerun Cameroons, Kaukkasus, Texas, Aegyptea.

These include those by N. J. Jacquin who collected new species in the West Indies, Colombia, and Venezuela.

It was originally extracted from Streptomyces nodosus, a filamentous bacterium, in 1955 at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research from cultures of an undescribed streptomycete isolated from the soil collected in the Orinoco River region of Venezuela.

After that second meeting Vásquez de Armas said he collected 12kg of C4 plastic explosive in Panama and transported it to Venezuela.

This is not the case in the Americas: 89 species have been collected in Venezuela alone.

It was found using data collected by at the CIDA Observatory in Venezuela.

Evidence collected immediately after the war by Squadron Officer Vera Atkins and Major Bill Barkworth of the SAS War Crimes investigation team ( included in the Justice-SAS Style program in the television series Nazi Hunters ), indicates that Borrel regained consciousness before being placed in the cremation oven and fought to save her life, facially scarring the camp executioner who was placing her in the oven.