For the preservation of anthropological and biological specimens during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, objects were dipped in or were painted with a "mercuric solution."

"The ghetto experience led me to look at the people around me almost as anthropological specimens," he said.

Other artists might have made her exotic; under Liotard's clinical, detail-obsessed gaze she's an anthropological specimen.

Starling followed the guard into a dim maze of corridors walled high with wooden cases of anthropological specimens.

They have been burying priceless anthropological specimens, bodies we could learn a lot from, and... well, you get in the habit of secrecy.

Visitors can watch as conservators work to preserve and study anthropological specimens from all over the world.

What came out of the discussions was a consistent plea to show the objects as part of living cultures, not mere anthropological specimens.

A couple of portraits of women, while expressive, still have the ruthless cast of anthropological specimens.

The British claimed to be the bearers of civilization, but their collecting of anthropological specimens was barbaric.

Under the reception desk, behind a sheet of plexiglass like an anthropological specimen or the relics of a saint, wrapped in blankets, is a sleeping figure with long black hair.