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Beaver study correspondence

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Correspondence between Fiona Watson and Ron O'Dor concerning her MSc thesis, "Locomotor Activity of Laboratory-reared Stage I and II Lobster Larvae ..."

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 12
File
1989 - 1993

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence between Ransom Myers and Dalhousie University

MS-2-179, Box 4, Folder 14
File
1998

Part of Ransom Myers fonds

File contains correspondence regarding Myers' involvement in the Honours Committee Biology Department at Dalhousie University.

Correspondence between Ransom Myers and Memorial University of Newfoundland

MS-2-179, Box 1, Folder 24
File
1990

Part of Ransom Myers fonds

File contains correspondence regarding Myers' appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology.

Correspondence between Richard Tait and Ron O'Dor concerning his doctoral thesis, "Physiological Aspects of Post-reproductive Senescense in Octopus Vularis"

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 13
File
1984 - 1987

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence between Steve Nicol and Ron O'Dor regarding employment references

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 14
File
1985 - 1989

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence from Clyde F.E. Roper concerning his research on bathypolypus arcticus and his participation at a workshop on illex illecebrosus

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 8
File
1974 - 1979

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence from Janet Voight to Ron O'Dor concerning her search for employment after completing her PhD. dissertation

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 11
File
1989 - 1990

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence from Lucilia Coelho regarding her thesis

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 4
File
1984-1987; 1990

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence from Raymond Pierotti, Director of Research at the Ocean Research and Education Society (ORES), inviting O'Dor's students to participate in a research sailing voyage aboard the R.V. Rambler

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 6
File
1985-1990

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File also includes a letter from Pierotti asking for support from O'Dor with his promotion at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Correspondence from research students Roy, Edwin, Elaine, Dale and John Shears to Ron O'Dor during his time in France

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 29
File
1979 - 1980

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File contains correspondence from a group of students who referred to themselves as the PIST group of Squid Inc.

Correspondence from Timothy Foyle to Ron O'Dor

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 17
File
1986; 1991; 1996

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence regarding Ransom Myers' research

MS-2-179, Box 3, Folder 36
File
1997

Part of Ransom Myers fonds

File contains handwritten note regarding Myers' visit and his research involving spatial populations dynamics from John Lawton, of Centre for Population Biology.

Correspondence regarding the appointment of Robert W. Elner to the Biology Department at Dalhousie University

MS-2-778, Box 59, Folder 12
File
1988

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Correspondence relating to Jill Aiten

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 1
File
1997; 2001-2004; 2010-2012

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File contains a letter of recommendation from Ron O'Dor regarding Jill Aitken's PhD application as well as correspondence between Aitken and O'Dor while she ran his lab in Halifax during his sabbatical.

Correspondence relating to Jill Aiten's MSc thesis

MS-2-778, Box 57, folder 17
File
1998-2001

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

File also contains a letter by Ron O'Dor nominating Jill P. Aitken for the 2000/2001 Governor General's Gold Medal.

Correspondence with Peter Boyle from the University of Aberbeen regarding O'Dor's contribution to Cephalopod Life Cycles, volumes 1 & 2

MS-2-778, box 57, Folder 11
File
1979-1983

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Crossing species boundaries : ethical aspects of chimaera making in stem cell biology : [Canadian Institutes of Health Research funding application and correspondence]

MS-2-807, Box 3, Folder 4
File
2003

Part of Françoise Baylis fonds

Crossing species boundaries : ethical aspects of chimaera making in stem cell biology : [correspondence with Louise Robert of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ]

MS-2-807, Box 28, Folder 1
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Françoise Baylis fonds

Drawings of the Biology Department and Ron O'Dor's correspondence with Martin Giddy re. proposed space changes

MS-2-778, Box 56, Folder 20
File
1983

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Leslie E. Haley's records regarding practical laboratory experience in the biology undergraduate curriculum

MS-2-758, SF Box 106, Folder 22
File
[ca. 1985] - [ca. 1988]

Part of Leslie E. Haley fonds

File contains a letter sent by the biology instructor to the member of the Biology Department's COW, and a typescript entitled Safety Manual Worksheet.

Leslie E. Haley's records regarding the high school biology

MS-2-758, SF Box 106, Folder 26
File
1987 - 1988

Part of Leslie E. Haley fonds

File contains correspondence between Leslie E. Haley and the Canadian Teacher's Federation, Gordon Fraser, and Donald D. Betts. File also contains a teaching guider on Biology 421, 441, 521 and 541, and the Heffer catalogue 227: biological sciences.

Leslie E. Haley's records regarding the Nova Scotia Department of Education's Biology Task Force

MS-2-758, SF Box 106, Folder 16
File
1989

Part of Leslie E. Haley fonds

File contains correspondence between Leslie E. Haley and Nova Scotia Department of Education's Biology Task Force, a draft typescript entitled Biology 20-30: Program Outline, and meeting agendas.

Letter of recommendation for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Doctoral thesis award for Michael James by Ransom Myers

MS-2-179, Box 46, Folder 11
File
2005

Part of Ransom Myers fonds

File contains letter of recommendation for James' thesis: "At-Sea biology and movements of leatherbackturtles, Dermochelys coriacea, in the Northwest Atlantic.

Postcards from James Woods to Ron O'Dor

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 20
File
1998

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Postcards from Ron O'Dor's graduate students

MS-2-778.2019-051, Box 58, Folder 19
File
1975 - 1999

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

Research on Japanese Squids

MS-2-778, box 57, Folder 13
File
1986-1993

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

This file consists correspondence and papers on Japanese squids, one is titled Study of flying squid behavior by ultrasonic telemetry. Two other papers are in Japanese.

Ron O'Dor correspondence with Satoquo Seino of Japan related to research on Cephalopods

MS-2-778, Box 57, Folder 12
File
1994-1998

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds

This file consists of correspondence and draft manuscripts of Seino's papers. This file contains a letter written on a dried squid.

Ron O'Dor's correspondence with Dalhousie administration and other university departments

MS-2-778, Box 59, Folder 16
File
1977-2012

Part of Ron O'Dor fonds