Should a country be paid if a plant specimen taken from its jungle produces a cancer drug?
The plant specimen commanded the attention of the other scientists.
In total, he brought back perhaps 31,000 plant specimens.
Today it also has the largest collection of tropical plant specimens.
It, along with a 1989 extension, houses the entire collection of 1.2 million plant specimens.
Other books are devoted to mining, animals and plant specimens.
He collected many plant specimens during his journey to Brazil.
He saw plant specimens and items of natural history, but ignored them all.
He brought hundreds of plant specimens, which fascinated resident scientists.
Once a plant specimen has been identified, its name and properties are known.