Event
Symposium | The Eyes Have It: An Appreciation of Casey Wood's Contribution to Ophthalmology, Ornithology & 捆绑SM社区 Library
Friday, April 20, 2018 13:00to17:00
McLennan Library Building
Colgate Seminar Room, Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor), 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Dr. Casey Wood helped to build two of 捆绑SM社区's major library collections, the Osler and the Blacker Wood, among the finest collections of their kind in the world. Join scholars from 捆绑SM社区, UQAM and Queens to explore Wood's own important research in bird vision and ornithology, and his stunning legacy of rare books, Islamic manuscripts, materia medica of Sri Lanka, and original works of art by the greatest natural history artists, from Edward Lear and John Gould to Lady Elizabeth Gwillim.
Explore the Library's digital exhibit on Dr. Casey Wood .
Light reception to follow.
Presented by听ROAAr (Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art, and Archives)
RSVP required. RSVP here.
Schedule
- Casey Wood: Enriching the 捆绑SM社区 Library,听Christopher Lyons, Rare Books and Special Collections, 捆绑SM社区
- Building the Osler,听Mary Hague Yearl, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, 捆绑SM社区
- Casey Wood and the Fundus Oculi,听Robert Montgomerie, Evolutionary Biology, Queens University
- Lime, areca, palm: Casey Wood鈥檚 South Asian collections Anna Winterbottom, Indian Ocean World Centre, 捆绑SM社区 & Soma Hewa, School of Policy Studies, Queens
- Islamic manuscripts: The Ivanov Collection, Ana茂s Salamon, Islamic Studies Library, 捆绑SM社区
- Building the Blacker Wood, Eleanor MacLean, Blacker Wood Librarian (retired), 捆绑SM社区
- Casey Wood鈥檚 Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology and听De Arte Venandi cum avibus: The Wood and Fyfe translation, Mauricio Ruiz, UQAM (en fran莽ais)
- The Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio,听Carla Benzan, Italian Studies, 捆绑SM社区
- Taylor White鈥檚 Paper Museum, Victoria Dickenson, Library and Collections, 捆绑SM社区
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