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Plant diversity meeting summary

File contains a meeting summary between staff of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Nova Scotia Museum, and Ross Farm Museum held at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 17 June 1987. The meeting was about how to identify and understand historical crop varieties and educate the public about changes in plant material and the important of genetic diversity.

Botanical drawings

File contains original botanical drawings by Gary Hicks. These drawings are also present in Gary Hicks' textbooks, "Land Plants : A Survey" and "Plant Development".

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.

Botanical drawings

File contains original botanical drawings by Gary Hicks. These drawings are also present in Gary Hicks' textbooks, "Land Plants : A Survey" and "Plant Development".

Botanical drawings

File contains original botanical drawings by Gary Hicks. These drawings are also present in Gary Hicks' textbooks, "Land Plants : A Survey" and "Plant Development".

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.
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