Archives Catalogue

Lead and zinc contamination of roadside soil and vegetation in Halifax, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 7
File
1982

File contains the manuscript of an article written by Freedman and J.M. Dale for the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 32. File also includes two hand-drawn charts and correspondence.

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]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 7
File
1991-1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

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

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 8
File
1999-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

Thread-leaved sundew, Drosera filiformis in Nova Scotia : an assessment of risks of a proposal to mine fuel peat from its habitat : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 9
File
1992-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with W. Maass and P. Parfenov, for the Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 106, number 4. File also contains correspondence, reviewer comments, and three photographs.

Mine-boggling decision : Nova Scotia's government said no to development, to save an endangered plant : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman for Nature Canada, Spring 1992. File also contains drafts, correspondence, and colour photographs of the endangered plant.

Aquatic vegetation of Nova Scotian lakes differeing in acidity and trophic status : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 4
File
1993-1995

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with Diane S. Srivastava and Cynthia A. Staicer, for Aquatic Botany, volume 51. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Silver hairgrass, Aira caryophyllea, new to eastern Canada, and other notable records from Seal Island, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 8
File
1984

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with P.M. Catling and V.R. Brownell, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 98, number 2. File also contains a draft manuscript and correspondence.

Vegetation and phytogeography of Sable Island, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 9
File
1982-1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript by Freedman, with P.M. Catling and Z.Lucas, for Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, volume 34, parts 3-4. File also contains the draft manuscript entitled "The vegetation of Sable Island", as well as correspondence and photo negatives.

Airphoto assessment of changes in plant cover on Sable Island, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscripts]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 13
File
1996-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains two draft reports by Freedman, tracking changes of Sable Island vegetation, in 1996 and 2001.

Aquatic plants of acid lakes in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia : floristic composition and relation to water chemistry : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1983-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with P.M. Catling, C. Stewart, J.J. Kerekes, and L.P. Lefkovitch, for Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 64, number 4. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Vegetation inventory of McNabs Island, Lawlors Island and Devils Island : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 2
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a draft manuscript compiled for Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests, Parks and Recreation Division, gathering information on the flora of three islands in Halifax Harbour. Marked in Freedman's hand as being "Anon (1985)".

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

MS-2-789, Box 27, Folder 7
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

Final report to Halifax Harbour Cleanup Inc. on vegetation and soil survey :[ draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 5
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript report compiled by Freedman and others for the consultancy firm Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd. File also contains a large folding facsimile map and annotated tables of flora from sites on McNabs Island.

Surveys of flora and avifauna at the Sydport Industrial Park, Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 17, Folder 6
File
2012

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains field notes written by Bill Freedman documenting flora and avifauna seen at a selection of sites near the Sydport industrial complex.

MS-2-789, Box 17, Folder 7
File
1984

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

Letters from Rev. James Rosborough to Mrs. Pearson

MS-2-471, SF Box 43, Folder 12
File
1898

File contains three letters from Reverend James Rosborough to Mrs. Pearson, in which he describes the death of his daughter, identifies plant specimens sent to him by her, and discusses matters related to the Presbyterian Church.

Rosborough, James, Rev., fl. 1898

George Lawson fonds

MS-2-159
Fonds
1854-1895

Fonds contains off-prints of Lawson's papers (1854-1894), a handwritten catalogue of Lawson's library, handwritten botanical observations (1891), a published program of a course of botany lectures, published testimonials (1874), and an obituary (1895).

Lawson, George

Inventory of ecological values on McNab's Island, Halifax County : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 1
File
1996

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript compiled by Freedman and others in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, prepared for Parks Canada.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1943 and summer 1944

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 3
Item
1943-1944

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

File contains a notebook with details of plant collecting trips in and around Halifax by Hugh Bell and other members of the Biology Department at Dalhousie University.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1947 and summer 1948

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 5
Item
1947-1948

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1932-1934

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 2
Item
1932-1934

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

File contains a notebook with details of plant collecting trips in and around Halifax by Hugh Bell and other members of the Biology Department at Dalhousie University.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1949, 1950 and 1951

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 6
Item
1949-1951

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1952, 1953 and 1954

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 7
Item
1952-1954

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, 1954-1956

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 8
Item
1954-1956

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Catalogue of plants collected by Hugh Bell in 1950

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 9
Item
1950

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall watching his wife Edith arrange daffodils

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 40, Item 2
Item
1957

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to commercial photographer Bob Brooks on the reverse side. Raddall's return address in Liverpool, Nova Scotia is also written on the reverse.

Hugh Bell's plant collecting trips notebook, summer 1945 and summer 1946

MS-2-798, SF Box 87, Folder 4
Item
1945-1946

Part of Hugh Philip Bell fonds

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

Biology 3220 lab manual : part one

MS-2-828, SF Box 113, Folder 5
File
1994

Part of Gary Hicks fonds

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.

Plant development

MS-2-828, SF Box 113, Folder 7
File
1996

Part of Gary Hicks fonds

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

MS-2-828, SF Box 113, Folder 6
File
January 1997

Part of Gary Hicks fonds

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.