Series comprises Ron O'Dor's administrative correspondence, reports and other records related to his teaching, committee work and research roles within and external to Dalhousie University, and to his roles as head of the Department of Biology and director of the Aquatron facility. Records related directly to his teaching are largely found in the teaching records series, while most correspondence related to named research projects is found within the related series or subseries.
Fonds contains materials documenting Brian Hall's research and teaching. Records include awards and notices of awards, correspondence, lecture and class notes, grant information, early zoology schoolwork, publication information, media coverage, seminar materials, photographs, and a reference card system.
Series contains materials regarding the appointments, awards and honorary degrees received by Brian Hall. Records types include correspondence, articles, administrative documents and photographs.
File contains correspondence regarding Hall's writing on atavisms, including for his manuscript "Developmental Mechanisms Underlying the Formation of Atavisms". The materials also include handwritten notes and file cards.
File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "B". These include John de Bavay of the University of New England, Marion Blute of the University of Toronto, Bill Beresford, Christopher Barnes of the University of Victoria, Walter Bock at Columbia University, and more.
File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "H". These include Richard Haines at the University of London, Dr. Arthur Ham, and Nick Hopwood at the Wellcome Insitute for the History of Medicine. Materials include a roster of the honorary degrees committee as of July 1, 2003.
Series contains materials regarding Brian Hall's grants. Written materials include approval letters, information about the projects requiring grants, and work updates.
File contains documents relating to Hall's National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants for 2009. Materials include applications, financial and project reports, an investigator checklist, a list of Hall's publications, and consent forms.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on cell death. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as overhead slides, an omissions list, and a references list.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on or for the Dalhousie Integrated Science Program (DISP). Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as overhead slides and notes from a third party who listened to the lecture.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on how to be a scientist. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as a day schedule for January 12 and January 18.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lecture titled Balfour, Garstang, and de Beer: The first century of Evolutionary Embryology. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as figures.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures for Florida International University. Materials include overviews of each lecture and a reading list.
File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on homology. Materials include handwritten notes, as well as copies of overhead slides, overviews of lectures, and a presentation script.
File contains documents and photographs depicting Brian Hall in the media from 2001 to 2006. Materials include correspondence, newspaper articles, a photograph of participants including Hall at a workshop for theoretical biology, and certificates from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
File contains documents and photographs depicting Brian Hall in the media in 2005, including his Killam Prize win. Materials include magazines and booklets, correspondence, and newspaper articles.
File contains documents relating to Hall's education at the University of New England. Materials include correspondence regarding Hall's degrees, including Doctor of Philosophy, and an abstract for and reports on Hall's Doctor of Science dissertation.
File contains documents relating to the Zoology II : Protochordates and vertebrates course taken by Hall. Materials include handwritten class notes and figures.
File contains documents relating to the second portion of the Zoology II course taken by Hall. Materials include typed and handwritten class notes and figures.
File contains documents relating to the Zoology III special project done by Hall in 1962. The project is a paper titled "The Histology of the Skull Articulations of Notechis acutatus (the Tiger Snake) with a Preliminary Description of the Anatomy of the Skull".
File contains the Zoology IV honours reading list for 1963 - 1964. The list is described as the basis for Hall's paper in the Kovalevsky medal issue of a journal in 2004.
Subseries contains materials related to the figures and original visuals used by Brian Hall for his publications. Publications include Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1st and 2nd editions, and Homology. Subseries also includes a master list of Hall's reprints until 2005.
File contains original artwork for Brian Hall's book "Homology: The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology", published by Academic Press in 1994. Materials include one page of correspondence, and several photographs backed on board.
File contains documents related to the publication of the 2nd edition of Brian Hall's book "Evolutionary Developmental Biology". Materials include a request for the 2nd edition, correspondence, an author questionnaire about the book, and a bio for the book including three different questionnaires. Hall has noted that this edition is published by Kluwer rather than Chapman and Hall because of a company takeover.
File contains documents related to protocols, primarily for laboratory animals, followed by Hall during his work. Materials include practical training certifications, filled out forms regarding laboratory animals, a notice of protocol expiry, protocol approval for skates, a project description, and animal counts.
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.
