AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE DIPTERA (FLIES) OF ALBERTA: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS

1946 ◽  
Vol 24d (5) ◽  
pp. 157-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Strickland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
New Records ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
The University

In 1938 a list of 1348 species of Diptera that, at that time, were known to occur in Alberta was published in the Canadian Journal of Research. Upon its appearance, specialists in several different groups in this order offered to re-examine all of the material in the University of Alberta collection that belonged to the families in which they were interested.This re-examination necessitates the replacement of 50 of the names that were recorded in 1938 and the addition of about 300 new records. These, together with the information generously provided by members of the Dominion Division of Entomology regarding unpublished records of species that are not represented in the University collection, brings the total Albertan records of flies to nearly 1900 species. A capture of unusual interest is the 'eye gnat' (Hippelates pusio Lw.), the distribution of which, on this continent, was, supposedly, confined to "the southern United States where the winters are mild".

HYDROPTILIDAE (TRICHOPTERA) FROM SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

1947 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Denning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caddis Flies ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

During the past several years a number of interesting collections of Hydroptilidae were made in the southern states, particularly in Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. These collections have now been examined and found to contain several new species and new distributional records of this little known family of “micro” caddis flies.Unless designated otherwise types of new species described herein are in the author's collection at the University of Wyoming.

Fourth International Theriological Congress/Quatrième congrès international du thériologie: Introduction

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1052-1052
Author(s):  
W. A. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Genetics ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Scientific Program ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The Press ◽  
Neotropical Mammals ◽  
The University ◽  
Cretaceous Fossils

The Fourth International Theriological Congress was held on the campus of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, from August 13 to 20, 1985. Registrants (907) came from every province and both territories of Canada, and from 51 other countries. The scientific program consisted of 5 plenary lectures, 29 symposia, 20 workshops, and 3 evenings of films. The total number of communications exceeded 700. Topics covered nearly all aspects of mammalogy from Cretaceous fossils to molecular genetics of recent mammals.Publication of contributions to symposia and workshops was left to the discretion and energy of the organizers of each session. The Congress Secretariat undertook to publish abstracts of all communications received before the press deadline (682), as well as the plenary addresses. One of the plenary speakers declined to submit a manuscript on the grounds that all of the information had already been published. A second paper has already been published (Mares, M. A. 1986. Conservation of neotropical mammals. Science (Washington, D.C.), 233: 734–739). The remaining three plenary papers appear as a group in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Zoology.

scholarly journals New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e25230
Author(s):  
Katherine Parys ◽  
Terry Griswold ◽  
Harold Ikerd ◽  
Michael Orr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Range Limits ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Native Bees ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Geographic Ranges ◽  
Native Bee

The native bee fauna of Mississippi, USA has been historically poorly sampled, but is of particular relevance to determine range limits for species that occur in the southern United States. Currently published literature includes 184 species of bees that occur within the state of Mississippi. Additions to the list of native bees known for Mississippi are reported with notes on range, ecology and resources for identification.The geographic ranges of seven additional species are extended into the state of Mississippi: Andrena (Melandrena) obscuripennis Smith, 1853,AnthemurguspassifloraeRobertson, 1902,Dieunomiabolliana(Cockerell 1910), Diadasia (Diadasia) enavata (Cresson 1872),Peponapiscrassidentata(Cockerell 1949),TriepeolussubnitensCockerell and Timberlake, 1929 andBrachynomadanimia(Snelling and Rozen 1987). These records raise the total number of published species known from the state to 191.AnthemurgusandBrachynomadaare also genera new to Mississippi.

scholarly journals Dean Weir Memorial Lecture - January 14, 1986 - Winds of Change in the Sentencing Process

1969 ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
J. H. Laycraft
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Criminal Sentencing ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The University

This article was presented as the 1986 Dean Weir Memorial Lecture at the University of Alberta and briefly discusses some of the philosophies of criminal sentencing including changes in the United States penal philosophy and practice. The application and effect of these new systems of sentencing in Canada is also considered.

scholarly journals Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Kanuka
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The University

Welcome to the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La Revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie (CJLT/RCAT) published from the University of Alberta! The new editors are Heather Kanuka (English publications) and Donald Ipperciel and Anne Boerger (French publications). We also have Martha Burkle as our Associate Editor and Marla Epp as Managing Editor. Many thanks to Michele Jacobson and François Desjardins for their assistance with the transition to the University of Alberta.

Summary of fossil vertebrate taxa named by Richard C. Fox, with an annotated list of taxa named between 1962 and 2012 and new photographs for non-mammalian therapsid and mammalian holotypes erected between 1968 and 1994

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig S. Scott ◽  
James D. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Vertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Fossil Vertebrate ◽  
The One ◽  
Stratigraphic Nomenclature ◽  
The University ◽  
Age Estimates

Beginning in 1962 and extending to the present, Richard C. Fox and colleagues have named 87 species of fossil vertebrates (1 fish, 4 amphibians, 2 choristoderes, 12 lizards, 1 crocodile, 1 dinosaur, 2 “pelycosaurs”, 2 non-mammalian therapsids, and 62 mammals) and numerous new supraspecific taxa. Virtually all of these species continue to be accepted, although the higher-level assignments of several have been altered. The vast majority of the named species were founded on specimens, collected during the mid-1960s to early 2000s by field parties under Fox’s direction, from the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian to late Maastrichtian) and Paleocene of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, and that are housed at the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology. Here we present (i) an annotated list of all fossil vertebrate species named by Richard Fox between 1962 and 2012, (ii) updated information on the stratigraphic nomenclature and age estimates for the eight localities in Alberta that yielded holotypes for all the Cretaceous mammal species named by Richard Fox from that province, and (iii) new photographs for the holotypes of the one non-mammalian therapsid and 43 Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal species named by Richard Fox before 1995.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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