The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

A live specimen was caught in 1938 off southern Africa ; other coelacanths have since been found in the vicinity of the Comoro Islands.

Phylis Canion, who was responsible for capturing the alleged specimen, claimed that t-shirts highlighting the event were shipped to locations such as Italy, Guam, and Iraq.

Climbing cacti can be very large ; a specimen of Hylocereus was reported as long from root to the most distant stem.

The image displayed by an SEM maps the varying intensity of any of these signals into the image in a position corresponding to the position of the beam on the specimen when the signal was generated.

The type specimen was the Taung Child, an Australopithecine infant which was discovered in a cave.

Also, the specimen showed short canine teeth, and the position of the foramen magnum was evidence of bipedal locomotion.

He was one of the earliest composers for stringed instruments, and Athanasius Kircher has given one specimen of this class of his works in his Musurgia.

A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.

The largest verified wild specimen was long and weighed, including undigested food.

This was disputed when London Zoological Garden employee Joan Proctor trained a captive specimen to come out to feed at the sound of her voice, even when she could not be seen.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

It was independently described as Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by Johann Blumenbach in 1800 ( from a specimen given to him by Sir Joseph Banks ) and following the rules of priority of nomenclature it was later officially recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.

The first Pterodactylus specimen was described by the Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini in 1784, based on a fossil skeleton unearthed from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria.

Collini, however, did not conclude that the specimen was a flying animal.

It was not until 1817 that a second specimen of Pterodactylus came to light, again from Solnhofen.

This tiny specimen was that year described by von Soemmerring as Ornithocephalus brevirostris ( for its short snout, now understood to be a juvenile character ), and provided a restoration of the skeleton, the first one published for any pterosaur.

This specimen was also covered in hair-like pycnofibres, with unusually long pycnofibres covering the back of its neck.

This specimen was sent to Othniel Charles Marsh, who believed that the formation from which it came dated from the Pliocene, and that the bones belonged to a particularly large and unusual bison, which he named Bison alticornis.

Some minerals exhibit unusual optical phenomena, such as asterism ( the display of a star-shaped luminous area ) or chatoyancy ( the display of luminous bands, which appear to move as the specimen is rotated ).

Officially it is a specimen of Ulmus americana, but is unusual because it grows sideways, making it a " tabletop " elm tree.

Although called a white oak, it is very unusual to find an individual specimen with white bark ; the usual color is a light gray.

An unusual specimen of calcite, densely intergrown with grains of sand.

The largest verified specimen was and weighed, although one unusual specimen was estimated to measure an enormous.

The only albino gorilla known to man, he was captured outside Nko, in the Equatorial forest of Nko, near Rio Campo, in the Rio Muni region, on October 1, 1966, by Benito Mañé, an ethnic Fang farmer, who had killed the rest of his group ( all charcoal black in color ) in order to obtain this unusual albino specimen.

A specimen of Common Hawthorn found at Glastonbury, first mentioned in an early sixteenth century anonymous metrical Lyfe of Joseph of Arimathea, was unusual in that it flowered twice in a year, once as normal on " old wood " in spring, and once on " new wood " ( the current season's matured new growth ) in the winter.

This highly unusual specimen remained in the abdomen of a woman for 55 years.

The specimen displayed an unusual " black material " around the base of the tail, containing several calcium carbonate spherules, suggesting a quite noticeable amount of muscle behind the animal's hips.

In 1986, Martill compared the bones of Leedsichthys to a pachycormid that he had recently discovered, but the unusual proportions of that specimen gave a wide range of possible sizes.

* " Lab Animal " ( written by Jim Davis ; illustrated by Gary Barker and Larry Fentz ): at a secret government facility, lab specimen 19-GB receives an unusual injection, followed by his escape from the military base.

For example Test 3, E 1 refers to a specimen which has been washed by procedure `` 3 ( '' ( at 160-degrees-F ) for a total of 60 minutes in the machine, has been dried in a tumble dryer by procedure `` E '' and has been subjected to restorative forces on the Tension Presser by procedure `` 1 ''.

Distances marked on the specimen in warp and filling directions ( or wales and courses for knitted fabrics ) are measured before and after laundering.

A special template is furnished with the apparatus to enable marking a specimen for a central measuring area and the fabric extensions to the clamps ( see Fig. 2 ).

The specimen of fabric is a rectangle at least 22 by 22 inches, except for cloth narrower than 22 inches, in which case the specimen is the entire width of the fabric.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

The regent-mother Oghul Qaimish ( the " Camus " of William of Rubruck ) seems to have received and dismissed him with presents and a letter for Louis IX, the latter a fine specimen of Mongol insolence.

Through successive evaporation of material, layers of atoms are removed from a specimen, allowing for probing not only of the surface, but also through the material itself.

Once this condition is met, it is sufficient that local bonding at the specimen surface is capable of being overcome by the field, allowing for evaporation of an atom from the surface to which it is otherwise bonded.

Whilst the magnification of both the field ion and atom probe microscopes is extremely high, the exact magnification is dependant upon conditions specific to the examined specimen, so unlike for conventional electron microscopes, there is often little direct control on magnification, and furthermore, obtained images may have strongly variable magnifications due to fluctuations in the shape of the electric field at the surface.

The Philosophical Society of Australasia later offered to reimburse Hume for any costs incurred in recovering a specimen of the unknown animal, but for various reasons, Hume did not return to the lake.

In late 2010 the company announced that the concordat cum originali had been granted for the Breviary and specimen pages appeared on their website.

* Critical Point Drying, a method of specimen preparation for electron microscopy

The Management Authority of the exporting state is expected to check that an import permit has been secured and that the importing state is able to care for the specimen adequately.

They have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years in the wild, and can live considerably longer in captivity, with one specimen reportedly surviving for 35 years.

Because of improved test accuracy, ease of specimen management, convenience in specimen management, and ease of screening sexually active men and women, the NAATs have largely replaced culture, the historic gold standard for chlamydia diagnosis, and the non-amplified probe tests.

Foot of the Oxford specimen, used as source for the genetic study

The advantages of electron diffraction over X-ray crystallography are that the specimen need not be a single crystal or even a polycrystalline powder, and also that the Fourier transform reconstruction of the object's magnified structure occurs physically and thus avoids the need for solving the phase problem faced by the X-ray crystallographers after obtaining their X-ray diffraction patterns of a single crystal or polycrystalline powder.

Low voltage reduces the specimen damage by the incident electrons and increases image contrast that is especially important for biological specimens.