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How to know the mosses and liverworts

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1979
Author
Conrad, Henry S.
Publisher
Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
Edition
2nd
Call Number
04.1 C76m
Author
Conrad, Henry S.
Edition
2nd
Publisher
Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
Published Date
1979
Physical Description
xi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mosses
Liverworts
Botany
Plants
Science
Contents
Preface -- About mosses and liverworts -- Classification -- How to study bryophytes -- General references -- How to use the keys -- Pictured-key to the bryophytes of North America -- Musci, the mosses -- Class I. anthrocerotae, the hornworts -- Class II. Hepaticae, the liverworts -- List of synonyms -- Index and pictured-glossary.
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ISBN
0697047687
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 C76m
Collection
Archives Library
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How to know the lichens

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1979
Author
Hale, Mason E.
Publisher
Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
Call Number
04.1 H13l
Author
Hale, Mason E.
Publisher
Dubuque, Iowa : Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
Published Date
1979
Physical Description
xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Lichens
Botany
Plants
Science
Contents
Preface -- What are lichens -- How to make chemical tests -- How to collect and study lichens -- How to use the pictured key -- General references -- Pictured key to the foliose and fruticose lichens -- List of synonyms and incorrect names -- Phylogentic list of genera and families -- Acknowledgments for illustration -- index and pictured glossary.
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ISBN
0697047636
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 H13l
Collection
Archives Library
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How to identify plants

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1957
Author
Harrington, H.D.
Publisher
Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
Call Number
04.1 H24h
Author
Harrington, H.D.
Responsibility
Illustrations by L.W. Durrell
Publisher
Chicago : The Swallow Press Inc.
Published Date
1957
Physical Description
296 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
Identification
Botany
Plants
Science
Illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- How plants are classified -- Common names and scientific names -- Terms relative to the flower -- Terms relative to the inflorescence -- Terms relative to underground parts -- Terms relative to the stem -- Terms relative to the leaves -- Terms relative to surfaces -- General terms -- Fruits and seeds -- Use of keys in plant identification -- Collecting and pressing plants -- Manuals and floras -- Illustrated glossary.
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ISBN
0804001499
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 H24h
Collection
Archives Library
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Wild flowers of Alberta

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1977
Author
Cormack, R.G.H.
Publisher
Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers
Call Number
04.1 C81i
Author
Cormack, R.G.H.
Publisher
Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers
Published Date
1977
Physical Description
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Flowers
Identification
Science
Illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- Plant structures -- Index by family -- Colour index -- Habitat studies -- Wild flowers of Alberta -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of common names -- Index of scientific names.
Notes
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ISBN
0888301278
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 C81i
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Outdoor life cyclopedia : a complete guide for sportsmen

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1945
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Responsibility
Prepared by the editorial staff of Outdoor Life
Publisher
New York : Outdoor Life
Published Date
1945
Physical Description
334 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fishing
Firearms
Hunting
Deer
Elk
Bears
Dogs
Water Travel
Camping
Woodcraft
Food
Contents
Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.7 Ou8o
Collection
Archives Library
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Principles of stratigraphy

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Call Number
03 D91p
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
356 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
stratigraphy
Geology
Abstract
Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.
Contents
Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis
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Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 D91p
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Glacial and periglacial geomorphology

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1970
Author
Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan
Call Number
03.4 E1g
Author
Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan
Published Date
1970
Physical Description
608 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
glaciology
Geology
Contents
Part I : Basic concepts of glaciation and glacier behaviour -- Part 2 : Glacial and fluvioglacial erosion -- Part 3 : Glacial and fluvioglacial deposition -- Part 4 : Periglacial geomorphology
Notes
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Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03.4 E1g
Collection
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1973
Author
Sweeting, Marjorie M.
Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press
Call Number
03 S4k
Author
Sweeting, Marjorie M.
Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press
Published Date
1973
Physical Description
362 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
karstology
Hydrology
Karst
Geology
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Karst limestones -- 3. The solution of limestones -- 4. The landforms. Enclosed hollows of moderate dimensions : dolines -- 5. The superficial features of limestones : karren or lapies -- 6. Karst valleys -- 7. Water sinks and water swallows -- 8. Caves -- 9. Cave deposits -- 10. Poljes -- 11. Karst springs -- 12. Karst water and karst water tracing -- 13. Karst hydrology -- 14. Types of karst -- 15. Tropical karst -- 16. Other types of karst -- 17. The effect of the cyclic concept upon the knowledge of karst landforms -- 18. The aims and applications of karst landform study
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2021.20
Call Number
03 S4k
Collection
Archives Library
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Invertebrate fossils

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1952
Author
Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
Publisher
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Call Number
04 M78i
Author
Moore, Raymond C., Lalicker, Cecil G., and Fischer, Alfred G.
Publisher
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Published Date
1952
Physical Description
766 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fossils
Invertebrate
Geology
Contents
1. The nature of fossils -- 2. Foraminifera and radiolaria -- 3. Sponges and spongelike fossils -- 4. Coelenterates -- 5. Bryozoans -- 6. Brachiopods -- 7. Mollusks -- 8. Gastropods -- 9. Cephalopods -- 10. Pelecypods -- 11. Annelids and other worms -- 12. Arthropods -- 13. Trilobites -- 14. Ostracodes and other crustaceans -- 15. Chelicerates, myriapods, and insects -- 16. Echinoderms -- 17. Primitive attached echinoderms -- 18. Crinoids -- 19. Holothuroids -- 20. Starfishes -- 21. Echinoids -- 22. Graptolites and pterobranchs -- 23. Condonts
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2021.20
Call Number
04 M78i
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Intoduction to the structure of the earth

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969
Author
Spencer, Edgar W.
Publisher
New York : McGraw Book Company
Call Number
03 S3i
Author
Spencer, Edgar W.
Publisher
New York : McGraw Book Company
Published Date
1969
Physical Description
597 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses
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2021.20
Call Number
03 S3i
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The study of rocks in thin section

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1959
Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Call Number
03 M78t
Author
Moorhouse, W. W.
Publisher
New York and Evanston : Harper & Row
Published Date
1959
Physical Description
514 pages : illustrations, 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Harper's geoscience series
Subjects
Petrology
Geology
Science
mineralogy
Contents
1. Introduction. -- 2. Methods of optical mineralogy -- 3. Description of minerals -- 4. Mineral identification tables -- 5. Petrography of igneous rocks and related rocks -- 6. Volcanic and hypabyssal rocks : basalts, diabases, and related rocks -- 7. Andesites, dacites, and related rocks -- 8. quartz latites (rhyodacites) and rhyolites -- 9. Latites, trachytes, phonolites, and leucite trachytes -- 10. tuffs and pyroclastics -- 11. The plutonic rocks : gabbro, norite, and related rocks -- 12. The alkali gabbos : essexite, theralite, and related rocks -- 13. Quartz diorite, granodiorite, granite, and related rocks -- 14. Diorites, monzonites, syenites, and related rocks -- 15. Nepheline syenites and other delfspathoidal rocks -- 16. Ultrabasic rocks : peridotite, pyrozenite, and hornblendite -- 17. Lamprophyres -- 18. Sedimentary rocks in thin section -- 19. Conglomerates and breccias -- 20. Sandstones and arkoses -- 21. Greywackes -- 22. Argillaceous rocks -- 23. Limestones and dolomites -- 24. Cherts, iron formations, glauconitic sediments, phosphatic sediments, saline rocks, and coals -- 25. Metamorphic rocks -- 26. Dynamic metamorphism -- 27. Thermal metamorphism -- 28. Regional metamorphism -- 29. Metasomatism -- 30. Petrography of ore
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ISBN
9780060446109
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 M78t
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Archives Library
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An introduction to crystallography

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Phillips, F. C.
Publisher
London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
Call Number
03 P54a
Author
Phillips, F. C.
Publisher
London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
340 pages : 535 diagrams
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Crystallography
Geology
Science
Contents
1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit
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2021.20
Call Number
03 P54a
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Science in the history of modern culture

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1963
Author
Watanabe, Masao
Publisher
Tokyo : Miraisha
Call Number
03 W29s
Author
Watanabe, Masao
Publisher
Tokyo : Miraisha
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
353 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Science
Japanese
culture
Education
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
03 W29s
Collection
Archives Library
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Fenollosa and his circle

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Call Number
05 B79f
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
321 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Japanese
Japan
Art
Slavery
Archaeology
Mexico
Mayan
Biography
Abstract
A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
Contents
Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05 B79f
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Archives Library
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1963
Author
Coleman, H. T. J.
Publisher
Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
Call Number
05.1 C68a
Author
Coleman, H. T. J.
Responsibility
Cover and illustrations E. Downing Baker
Publisher
Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
57 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Literature
Abstract
A collection of childrens stories detailing a variety of animals as babies.
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05.1 C68a
Collection
Archives Library
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A little town and a little girl

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1951
Author
Carr, Emily
Publisher
Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
Call Number
06 C23a
Author
Carr, Emily
Responsibility
With a Foreword by Ira Dilworth
Publisher
Toronto : Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
Published Date
1951
Physical Description
xvii, 124 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Artists
Artists books
Arts
Carr, Emily
British Columbia
Autobiography
Abstract
Emily Carr describes her life in Victoria, British Columbia.
Contents
Beginnings ; James' Bay and Dallas Road ; Silence and Pioneers ; Saloons and Roadhouses ; Ways of Getting Round ; Father's Store ; New Neighbours ; Visiting Matrons ; Servants ; East and West ; Cathedral ; Cemetery ; Schools ; Christmas ; Regatta ; Characters ; Loyalty ; Doctor and Dentist ; Chain Gang ; Cook Street ; Waterworks ; From Carr Street to James' Bay ; Grown Up
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
06 C23a
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Published Date
1949
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Author
Murray Gibbon, John
Publisher
Toronto : The Ryerson Press
Published Date
1949
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books
Subjects
Poetry
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05.1 M96t
Collection
Archives Library
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A nostalgic view of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Buchanan, Donald W.
Publisher
Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
Call Number
06.4 B86a
Author
Buchanan, Donald W.
Publisher
Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
45 pages II. ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Alberta
Quebec and Ontario
Canada
Abstract
In this book Donald W. Buchanan recreates the flavour of the Canada of his youth, matching a nostalgic text with his own photographs of evocative scenes from the ranches of Happy Valley, Alberta, to Kamouraska County in Quebec. -- From the publisher
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
06.4 B86a
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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1947
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Call Number
04.1 H26d
Author
George Harvey, Athelstan
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
Published Date
1947
Physical Description
x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Botany
Science
Travel
Canada
Upper Canada
Columbia River
Contents
Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
04.1 H26d
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Pioneer days of Nakusp and the Arrow Lakes

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
August 20, 1951
Author
Johnson, Kate
Publisher
Nakusp : Kate Johnson
Call Number
08.2 J62p
Author
Johnson, Kate
Publisher
Nakusp : Kate Johnson
Published Date
August 20, 1951
Physical Description
146 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Kootenay
Kootenay region
History
Abstract
History of Nakusp written for the Nakusp Diamond Jubliee (1892-1952).
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08.2 J62p
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