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.
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").
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.
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.
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.
File contains drafts of the conference report, Ron O'Dor's notes, and correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Shubha Sathyendranath, Jesse Ausubel, and Cynthia Decker.
