A brief description of the four seasons
- MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder G2
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- [ca. 1793]
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is a manuscript in which Dinwiddie describes changes in weather and flora and fauna between seasons.
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- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 7
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- April 16, 1968
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of a signed agreement -- dated April 16, 1968 -- between the Dalhousie Board of Governors and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (via the Department of the Secretary of State, which oversees the National Museum of Canada) regarding the loaning and preservation of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 2
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- 1916
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President A. Stanley MacKenzie, Dr Leonard Sanford, C.J. Burchell, and Henry Fairfield Osborn, regarding Dalhousie's holding of extinct Labrador duck specimens in the Thomas McCulloch Museum.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 3
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- 1933, 1943
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President Carleton Stanley's office, as well as Robie Tufts and Burlingham Schurr, regarding Dalhousie's holding of two Labrador duck specimens at the Thomas McCulloch Museum.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 4
- Item
- 1964-1968
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President Henry Hicks and several other stakeholders between 1964 and 1968, regarding the potential loaning of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada. Includes correspondence between President Hicks and L.B. Macpherson, Eric Mercer, A.W.F. Banfield, Waldemar Fries, Sylvia Fullerton, John E. McInerny, R.A. Cluney, T.A. Russell, J. Lynton Martin, Elisabeth A. Christian, D.H. McNeill, K.E. von Maltzhan, and W. Earl Godfrey.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 6
- Item
- March 25, 1968
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of a facsimile draft of an agreement -- dated March 25, 1968 -- between the Dalhousie Board of Governors and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (via the Department of the Secretary of State, which oversees the National Museum of Canada) regarding the loaning and preservation of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 5
- Item
- February 29, 1968
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of a facsimile draft of an agreement -- dated February 29, 1968 -- between the Dalhousie Board of Governors and Her Majesty the Queen (via the Department of the Secretary of State, which oversees the National Museum of Canada) regarding the loaning and preservation of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
- MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder F1
- Item
- 1774 - 1841
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is a journal containing lists of materials, expenses and books, and well as miscellaneous notes and diary entries, including copies made by W.J. Proudfoot in 1841 of earlier pencilled notes by Dinwiddie, and a loose letter from Mr Ashton requesting the loan of a book.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 1
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- 1887
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of a handwritten Memorandum of Agreement between the Reverend William McCulloch of Truro, Doctor of Divinity, of the one part, and The Board of Governors of Dalhousie College and University, of the other part, October 1st, 1887, as well as a typed transcription of the handwritten document. The Agreement outlines Dr McCulloch's aiding in establishing a natural history museum at Dalhousie College in the name of Thomas McCulloch.
- UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 8
- Item
- 1968
Part of President’s Office fonds
Item consists of a press release issued by the National Museum of Canada regarding the long-term loan acquisition of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum at Dalhousie University to the National Museum of Natural History in Ottawa. Also includes correspondence between A.W.F. Banfield and Eric Mercer.
Queries and hints, vol. 3 new series or 21st old / J. Dinwiddie, LLD
- MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D17
- Item
- 1797
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is volume 3 of the "new series" (or volume 21 of the "old series") of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 171-471 and was written in Calcutta.
- MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E10
- Item
- April 21, 1810 - May 26, 1811
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about lectures at the Royal Institution (April 21, 1810 - May 26, 1811). Dinwiddie notes that he did not attend the first two lectures.
- MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D14
- Item
- 1792-1793
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is volume 16 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2252-2360 and subject headings including navigation and natural history.
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- MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D15
- Item
- 1793
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is volume 17 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2361-2455 and was created when Dinwiddie was in China.
![Vol. 18 [Queries and Hints]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/8/8/3/88375944bca5f96f76c99aa56387289f13067f4615fa15810fdf80ffd97aee67/MS-2-726_14_D16_142.jpg)
- MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D16
- Item
- 1794
Part of James Dinwiddie fonds
Item is volume 18 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2457-2508 and was created when Dinwiddie was in China.