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Plant development

File is a textbook by Gary Hicks entitled “Plant development”, which was published in 1996 by Dalhousie University. Text and illustrations were by Gary Hicks, graphic design was by Rick Janson, and the cover design was by Ingrid Walker. Textbook contains an introduction, a sequence of class presentations, eleven chapters, and four appendices. Chapters include topics such as plant development, zygotic embryos, seed germination, leaf development, and cell differentiation.

Biology 3220B land plants : a survey

File is a textbook entitled “Land plants : a survey” by Gary Hicks. The textbook was published in 1997 for Biology 3220B, a course offered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The textbook was designed by Rick Janson and includes original text and botanical drawings by Gary Hicks. Textbook contains the course syllabus, lecture and lab schedule, and fifteen chapters on land plants. The chapters include information on different divisions and classes of plants, including clubmosses, spikemosses, horsetails, ferns, and seeds.

Biology 3220 lab manual : part one

File is a lab manual written by Gary Hicks in 1994 for the course Biology 3220B at Dalhousie University. Manual contains a lab schedule and quiz dates, a list of lab materials, and a policy on missed labs. Manual contains labs on mosses, club mosses, horsetails, whisk ferns, and ferns. Each lab includes an introduction, background reading, related terms, exercises, and original sketches by Gary Hicks.

Gary Hicks fonds

  • MS-2-828
  • Fonds
  • 1994-1997
Fonds consists of textual records and graphic material from Gary Hicks’ time as professor of plant biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. The textual records include two textbooks and one lab manual for the course Biology 3220. The graphic material consists of original botanical drawings, some of which are included in the textual records.

Hicks, Gary

Hugh Philip Bell fonds

  • MS-2-798
  • Fonds
  • 1932 - 1956
Fonds consists of notebooks documenting Hugh Bell's plant-collecting trips around Nova Scotia.

Bell, Hugh Philip

Effects of habitat on variations of phenology and nutrient concentration among four common plant species of the Alexandra Fiord lowland : [draft manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the draft manuscript written by E.J. Woodley and J. Svoboda, for the Freedman-edited volume "Ecology of a Polar Oasis". File also contains correspondence from Freedman, outlining "extensive modifi[cations]" made by Freedman to the draft.

Ecology of a high Arctic lowland oasis, Alexandra Fjord (78 53'N, 75 65'W), Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada : 1980 and 1981 progress reports : [manuscript]

File contains the manuscript reports edited by Freedman and Josef Svoboda, documenting the 1980 and 1981 progress of the Alexandra Fjord Lowland Ecosystem Study. Freedman contributes to two articles in the 1980 report: "Ecology of a high arctic lowland oasis on Ellesmere Island. An overview" (with J. Svoboda) and "Populations of breeding birds" (with J. Svoboda), and five articles in the 1981 report: "Seed banks and seedling occurrence in a high arctic oasis" (with Nick Hill, Josef Svoboda, and Greg Henry), "Populations of breeding birds at Alexandra Fiord, compared with other high arctic localities" (with Josef Svoboda), "Regional survey of plant communities" (with Josef Svoboda), "Birds of Alexandra Fiord and vicinity", and "Mammals of Alexandra Fiord and vicinity".

Ecology and health of communities dominated by Cassiope tetragona at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Canada : [manuscript and other materials]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with Margorie L.N. Names, for Holarctic Ecology, volume 10. This manuscript also later appeared in the Freedman-edited "Ecology of a Polar Oasis" volume. File also contains correspondence, figures, and handwritten notes.

Vegetation and soils of the terrestrial watershed of Pine Marten Brook, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

File contains draft manuscript reports written by Freedman with W. Maass, regarding consultancy work at the Pine Marten Brook in Kejimkujik National Park. Includes data sets, chemical analysis of water samples, maps, correspondence, and the consultancy contract with Environment Canada.

COSEWIC status report on the Thread-leaved sundew, Russulis filiforme (Drosera filiformis) : [draft manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman and Jim Jotcham for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, about the status of Drosera filiformis, at several bog sites in southwestern Nova Scotia. File also contains correspondence and related articles.

Assessment of the likely effects of peat extraction from Swaines Road (Barrington) bog, Shelburne County, on Drosera filiformis and its habitat : [draft manuscript and other materials]

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman, with W. Maass and P. Parfenov, for COSEWIC (the Committe on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada", relating to the protection of the endangered thread-leaved sundew (Drosera filiformis) form bog sites being surveyed as potential peat extraction locations. File includes manuscripts, correspondence, data sets, and relevant statutes.

Field notes related to flora at lake sites in southwestern Nova Scotia

File contains a field notebook compiled by Bill Freedman in 1984 during his research on the Riverside region. Includes lists of flora seen at the following Nova Scotia lakes and bogs: Grafton, Snake, McGinty, Big Red, Little Red, Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, North Cranberry, Puzzle, Cosiuelle, Little Peskowesk, Mud, Loon, George, Peskowesk, Hilchemakaar, Big Dam East, Big Dam West, Iramy Bog, Mill Bog, Drain, Spectacle, Jordan, and Round Pond.

Photographs of copper-zinc and sulfur dioxide devegetation

File contains 13 photographs taken by Todd Keith (and collected by Bill Freedman) between 1984 and 1990. Photographs show devegetation near smelter plants in Flin Flon, Manitoba and Sturgeon Lake, Ontario (Cu-Zn), Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (Cu-Zn and SO2), and acidification of quartzite at Killarney, Ontario. Also includes a photograph by Keith of Kilauea Crater (Hawaii) and three photos of New Zealand scenery.

Photographs of vegetation in barrens and bogs of Nova Scotia

File contains 22 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1989 and 2001. Photographs show vegetation at the Murchyville bog (near Moose River, Nova Scotia), a Christmas tree lot in Lunenburg County, the barrens at Polly Cove (Halifax County), and examples of the endangered Geum peckii on Brier Island (Digby County).
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