Fonds MS-2-798 - Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1932-1934 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1943 and summer 1944 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1947 and summer 1948 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1949, 1950 and 1951 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1952, 1953 and 1954 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1954-1956 Catalogue of plants collected by Hugh Bell in 1950 Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1945 and summer 1946

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Hugh Philip Bell fonds

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MS-2-798

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7 cm of textual records

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(1889-1957)

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Hugh Philip Bell was a noted botanist and former head of Dalhousie University biology department. He was born on 22 February 1889 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Charles Bell and Isabella Jane Ray. He was educated in Halifax schools and attended Dalhousie University, where he studied botany and played an active part in college activities. After graduation he taught at Morris Street School in Halifax and at the Lunenburg Academy. During World War One Bell served as a captain with the RCRs in France, where he was wounded severely. On returning from the war he received his PhD degree from the University of Toronto before being appointed at Dalhousie, where he remained until his retirement in 1954. Bell was an associate of the Nova Scotia Research Foundation and published over fifty scientific papers on the development of Nova Scotia plants. At the time of his death on 25 October 1957, he was working as a botanist for the Research Council of Nova Scotia.

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Records were donated to the Dalhousie University Archives by Dr. Brian Hall in accession (2017-018) in May 2017.

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Fonds consists of notebooks documenting Hugh Bell's plant-collecting trips around Nova Scotia.

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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room. Materials may be under copyright. Contact departmental staff for guidance on reproduction.

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Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Hugh Philip Bell fonds, MS-2-798, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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