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Riker mount

flat container used for mounting a specimen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ18390430 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Riker mount is a flat container used for mounting a specimen (typically plant or insect) on cotton wool or other backing material, often with transparent glass or plastic cover as protection. It was patented by Clarence B. Riker (d. 1947), American naturalist and drug manufacturer, in 1902.

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“Riker mount” enters the record as flat container used for mounting a specimen. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Riker, mount and flat can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1902—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Riker, mount and flat.
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“Riker mount” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Riker, mount and flat provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18390430. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1902.

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This entry incorporates text from “Riker mount” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.