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- Gould, Stephen Jay 3
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- Halstead, L. B 1
- Huck, Barbara 1
- International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (2009 : Banff, Alta.) 1
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- McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L. 1
Animals of the Burgess Shale : Yoho National Park, British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19894
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Environment Canada
- Publisher
- Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service
- Call Number
- 04 E1a Pam
- Author
- Environment Canada
- Publisher
- Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service
- Published Date
- 1988
- Subjects
- Burgess Shale
- Yoho National Park
- Fossils
- Abstract
- Pertains to a pamphlet detailing the animal species that have been discovered in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Located in Yoho National Park, the Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit that was originally founded by Charles Walcott. The pamphlet tells of Walcott’s history and the early beginnings following his findings, as well as the species that inhabited the area millions of years prior.
- Notes
- Front reads: Exquisitely detailed fossils found in layer of shale in Yoho National Park open a window on life on Earth 530 millions years ago
- Accession Number
- 2017.8683
- Call Number
- 04 E1a Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Burgess animal book for children
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26598
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Burgess, Thornton W.
- Publisher
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91t
- Author
- Burgess, Thornton W.
- Publisher
- Boston, Little, Brown and Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- xvii, 363 pages color frontispiece, plates (some color) 20 cm
- Abstract
- This book, originally published in 1920, is a call to learn more about the animals with which we share our world, and how precious they are, through stories.
- Contents
- Preface -- Jenny Wren gives Peter Rabbit an idea -- Peter and Jumper go to school -- More of Peter's long-legged cousins -- Chatterer and Happy Jack join -- The squirrels of the trees -- Striped chipmunk and his cousins -- Johnny Chuck joins the class -- Whistler and Yap Yap -- Two queer little haymakers -- Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher -- A fellow with a thousand spears -- A lumberman and engineer -- A worker and a robber -- A trader and a handsome fellow -- Two unlike little cousins -- Danny's northern cousins and Nimbleheels -- Three little redcoats and some others -- Mice with pockets, and others -- Teeny Weeny and his cousin -- Four busy little miners -- Flitter the bat and his family -- An independent family -- Digger and his cousin Glutton -- Shadow and his family -- Two famous swimmers -- Spite the martin and Pekan the fisher -- Reedy Fox joins the school -- Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf -- Yowler and his cousin Tuffy -- Some big and little cat cousins -- Bobby Coon arrives -- Buster Bear nearly breaks up school -- Buster Bear's big cousins -- Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum -- Lightfoot, Blacktail, and Forkhorn -- Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof -- Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat -- Two wonderful mountain climbers -- Piggy and Hardshell -- The mammals of the sea -- Index.
- Notes
- Delicate handwritten note in front cover, tied for protection.
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A Burgess Shale primer : history, geology and research highlights. Field trip companion volume, ICCE 2009
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14589
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (2009 : Banff, Alta.)
- Publisher
- Toronto : Burgess Shale Consortium
- Call Number
- 03.2 In8b Pam
- Responsibility
- edited by Jean-Bernard Cohen and Dave Rudkin
- Publisher
- Toronto : Burgess Shale Consortium
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 108 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Burgess Shale
- Geology
- Paleontology
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- A brief history of field research on the Burgess Shale / Desmond Collins. -- Geology and stratigraphy of the Burgess Shale Formation on Mount Stephen and Fossil Ridge / Terrence P. Fletcher and Desmond Collins. -- Sedimentation of the phyllopod bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation / Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz. -- Fossil preservation in the Burgess Shale / Nicholas J. Butterfield. -- The greater phyllopod bed community, historical variatioins and quantitative approaches / Jean-Bernard Caron. -- The Mount Stephen trilobite beds / Dave Rudkin.
- ISBN
- 9780981288505
- Accession Number
- 2015.8517
- Call Number
- 03.2 In8b Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Charles Doolittle Walcott, 1850-1927 : a biographical memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7024
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1967
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Call Number
- 03.1 W14y Pam
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Published Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- p.471-540 : ill
- Subjects
- Burgess Shale
- Paleontology
- Yoho National Park
- Notes
- From Biographical Memoirs, vol.XXXIX
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 765
- Call Number
- 03.1 W14y Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Charles Doolittle Walcott, paleontologist
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11229
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 W14yo v.1
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- xvi, 510, [24] p. : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Burgess Shale
- Paleontology
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index. 2nd volume of biography titled "Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott"
- ISBN
- 0-87338-599-3
- Accession Number
- 4-14-999 31,500
- Call Number
- 03.2 W14yo v.1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Climate change : sorting it out [and other articles]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue9515
- Physical Description
- p.4-9
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation
- Notes
- In Marrella, no.7, summer 1998
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The emergence of animals : the Cambrian breakthrough
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26404
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Call Number
- 03 M22t
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Contents
- Cambrian explosion -- Aliens here on earth? -- Mudeaters -- Small shelly fossils -- Golden spike -- Rifting of Rodinia -- Garden of Ediacara -- Ecological feedback and intelligence -- Precambrian oxygen -- Ecological chaos and innovation.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library First use of Rodinia
- ISBN
- 0231066465
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 M22t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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First person : the Burgess mystique
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15261
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2016 / 2017
- Author
- Anthony, Leslie
- Publisher
- In Mountain Life Annual, 2016/2017
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Anthony, Leslie
- Publisher
- In Mountain Life Annual, 2016/2017
- Published Date
- 2016 / 2017
- Physical Description
- p.22-23
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Reid, Monty
- Publisher
- Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press
- Call Number
- 05.1 R27f
- Author
- Reid, Monty
- Responsibility
- Monty Reid
- Publisher
- Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 62 p. : port.
- Subjects
- Burgess Shale
- Notes
- signed by authour
- Includes poem "The shale disparities' which is dedicated to Jon Whyte
- ISBN
- 0889951888
- Accession Number
- 8227
- Call Number
- 05.1 R27f
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- Archives Library
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The fossils speak
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7026
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Wood, Daniel
- Call Number
- 03.1 W85 Pam
- Author
- Wood, Daniel
- Responsibility
- photographs by Paul Bailey
- Physical Description
- p.14-22 : ill., map
- Subjects
- Burgess Shale
- Paleontology
- Yoho National Park
- Notes
- In Beautiful British Columbia, vol.36, no.2, summer 1994
- Accession Number
- 6570
- Call Number
- 03.1 W85 Pam
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- Archives Library
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