Fonds contains records created by William Threlfall that pertain primarily to the diseases, virology, and parasitology of birds and waterfowl. Records are thesis, research notes, and articles.
File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."
File contains handwritten note regarding Myers' visit and his research involving spatial populations dynamics from John Lawton, of Centre for Population Biology.
File contains schedule, handwritten notes and list of participants for workshop presented by The Billfish Foundation of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute.
File contains transparencies for Introduction to Ecology course taught by Ransom Myers. File also contains photocopy of annotated folder from which the records were removed.
File contains letter of recommendation for James' thesis: "At-Sea biology and movements of leatherbackturtles, Dermochelys coriacea, in the Northwest Atlantic.
File contains annotated memorandum for pacific whiting in Northwest treaty tribes and photocopy of "Biology and fisheries of North pacific hake (M. productus)" by Richard Methot and Martin Dorn.
Item is a handwritten outline for an address given by Henry Hicks on 23 March 1974 at the 14th annual Canadian Hydrographic Service Conference in Ottawa.
Fonds contains records that span Hayes' career as a zoology professor. It consists of research data, laboratory experiments and other teaching material, correspondence, and publications. The research data has a wide geographic scope, but was primarily gathered in Nova Scotia.
Item is a ticket to an electro-biology class at an unidentified school. The ticket is printed on thick blue card and Jame Baxter's name is written on the back.
File consists of two copies of a photograph of a biology lecture in 1948. The photograph was selected for inclusion in the publication "The Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol. 2" by Peter B. Waite (page 152).
File contains correspondence with the "Quarterly Review of Biology," Joyce Rosner, Mr. Ronning, and Plenum Publishing Corporation (the latter referring to pictures for inclusion in "The Mines of Neptune").