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How to identify plants

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26230
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.
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0804001499
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 H24h
Collection
Archives Library
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Invertebrate fossils

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25667
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
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04 M78i
Collection
Archives Library
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The study of rocks in thin section

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25662
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
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
9780060446109
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 M78t
Collection
Archives Library
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A little town and a little girl

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25549
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Collection
Archives Library
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