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Zoology IV : Honours reading list

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.

Zoology III : Special project

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".

Zoology III

File contains documents relating to the Zoology III course taken by Hall. Materials include a typed syllabus and instructions for the course.

Zoology II : Part 2

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.

Work and seminars

Series contains materials related to Brian Hall's work and seminars. Written materials include programmes and notices for seminars, protocols, notes taken by Hall at seminars, and Hall's Student Ratings of Instructions (SRIs) for 2006 - 2007.

William Threlfall fonds

  • MS-14-33
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1984
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.

What is evolutionary development?

File contains documents relating to Hall's lecture titled "What is evolutionary development?". Materials include typed and handwritten notes.

"W" correspondence

File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "W". These include Wilfrid Laurier University, Professor Willmer at the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and George Washington University. Materials include a request for Hall to agree to be nominated to be a consultant for the appraisal of the MSc program in Integrative Biology at Wilfrid Laurier.

University of Western Australia appointments

File contains documents relating to Hall's appointments at the University of Western Australia, including Fellow of the Centre for Human Biology and the Raine Visiting Professorship. Materials include correspondence, descriptions of seminars given by Hall from February 15 - May 15, 1993, and seminar posters.

University of Calgary honorary degree

File contains documents relating to Hall's honorary degree received from the University of Calgary in 2014. Materials include a photograph of Hall in graduation robes, the 2014 convocation booklet and invitation for June 12, correspondence, a small news feature, and an outline for Hall's speech.

University of Calgary

File contains correspondence with the University of British Columbia regarding avian clavicles with Anthony P. Russell. Materials include photocopied notes.

University of British Columbia

File contains correspondence with the University of British Columbia regarding the appointment of the Director of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Materials include a description of the job and Hall's full CV.

"U" correspondence

File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "U". These include various universities, such as Victoria and Western Australia, and the Dalhousie University Club. Materials include research quality assessments and letters regarding Hall's nomination for Dean of Science at the University of Victoria.

TOPP: Tagging of Pacific Predators

Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP). The Tagging of Pacific Predators project electronically tagged and tracked 4300 different marine predators, including sharks, seals and seabirds, tracing routes taken by these species in their search for ocean prey. The project, headed by American scientists Barbara Black, Steven Bograd, Daniel Costa and Randy Kochevar, discovered that many animals travel entire oceans at a variety of depths, from the poles to the tropics, continent to continent, in the search for food. It was also discovered that many predatory marine creatures migrate along the same oceanic corridors, congregating along their feeding routes.

The University of New England

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.

The Royal Society of Canada Fellow appointment

File contains documents relating to Hall's appointment as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985. Materials include correspondence, administrative information regarding the Society, and a press release.

The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms

File contains documents related to the publication of Brian Hall's book "The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms". Materials include three possibly unpublished reviews and one page of correspondence regarding compensation for contributors.

The Neural Crest : 2nd edition

File contains documents related to the publication of the second edition of Brian Hall's book "The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution". Materials include the book's download statistics on Springer, correspondence for images and permissions/publication of book, reviews (in email form, not necessarily formally published), and a document with suggested details such as book length and title.

The Impossible Museum fonds

  • Fonds
  • 2018-2020

Fonds contains a selection of documents, drawings, material samples, and images collected by D'Arcy Wilson and Lisa Bouraly during a two-year research project focused on Thomas McCulloch and Andrew Downs. The fonds is part of an exhibition, the "Impossible Museum," curated by Lisa Bouraly and featuring works by D'Arcy Wilson and Amy Malbeuf. The exhibition is presented by Eyelevel Gallery in the Thomas McCulloch Museum in the Dalhousie University Life Sciences Centre from March 5 to April 30, 2020.

Material includes a selection of texts and notes tracing Bouraly's research while preparing the exhibition. These documents were selected by Wilson from Bouraly's collection. Fonds also includes an encapsulated drawing of Thomas McCulloch, material swatches linked to one of the works in the exhibition, scraps and drawings left over from a collage, photographs of works in progress, a copy of the exhibition essay, and other material related to the exhibition. Fonds also includes photocopies of several nineteenth century texts reviewed by Bouraly during her research.

The file box includes a pair of white gloves and a list of materials in the box.

Wilson, D'Arcy

The Canada-Germany Science and Technology Cooperation project

File contains correspondence related to the Canada-Germany Science and Technology Cooperation project (CAN 01/104), which included studying salmon bone development with Eckhard Witten in Germany. Materials aside from correspondence include a description of project and expenses/purchase requisition forms.

Teeth

  • MS-2-799, Box 3, Folder 35
  • File
  • [after 1968], 1984 - 1997

    • Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on teeth. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as figures.

Teaching records

Series comprises Ron O'Dor's teaching materials, including course syllabi, exams and reading lists, as well as assignments and student evaluations for courses he developed and taught in the areas of biology and marine biology.

"T" correspondence

File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "S". These include Tom Traves, President of Dalhousie, Patrick P. L. Tam of the Children's Medical Research Institute (Australia) and Keith S. Thomson. Materials include Hall's biographical highlights, as well as order forms for animals (snapper turtles).

Student ratings of instruction (SRIs)

  • MS-2-799, Box 6, Folder 13
  • File
  • March 2006 - January 2007

    • Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains student ratings of instruction (SRIs) for Hall's Biology 3050 class from March 2006 to January 2007. Materials include notes from students on what Hall did as a professor to facilitate their learning, how he hampered their learning, and additional comments.

Somitic chondrogenesis

File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on somitic chondrogenesis. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as figures.

Seminar notes

  • MS-2-799, Box 6, Folder 12
  • File
  • [after 1958], 1975 - 1990

    • Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains notes from seminars that Hall has attended or spoken at. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, textbook pages, a presentation given to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1990, a UCLA conference, figures, and reference lists.

"S" correspondence

File contains correspondence related to persons or organizations associated with the letter "S". These include the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Samuel Scully of Dalhousie, Professor E. Storey of the University of Melbourne, and Bob Schaeffer of the American Museum of Natural History. Materials include information about Hall's nomination for the Vice-President Research at Dalhousie, as well as SSHRC grant information.

Ron O'Dor's manuscripts and conference materials

Series comprises records related to Ron O'Dor's published articles, papers and conference presentations, including manuscripts, correspondence, publishing agreements and conference materials. Other manuscripts and related correspondence and papers are found within the general and named research series.

Ron O'Dor's career research records

Series contains correspondence, field notes, meeting minutes, presentation slides, and photographs related to Ron O'Dor's early-career research into cephalopoda behaviour, feeding practices of bivalve larvae in zero gravity environments, and other mollusca and marine biology projects.

O'Dor, Ronald

Ron O'Dor's administrative correspondence and records

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.

Ron O'Dor fonds

  • MS-2-778
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2019
Fonds contains records created and collected by Ronald O'Dor in the course of his work as a marine biologist based at Dalhousie University, predominantly materials generated by the two major research projects: Census of Marine Life (CoML) and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). Record types include research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts, correspondence, and committee and meeting minutes.

O'Dor, Ronald

Reviews and publisher correspondence

Subseries contains Brian Hall's reviews and publisher correspondence for his publications. Materials include reviews that may not have been published and promotional materials for books such as questionnaires.
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