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NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science

Halifax, Nova Scotia
ISSN 0078-2521
Vol 44 2008 Part 2 (Price $9)
(Completion of Vol. 44)
CONTENTS

New Distribution Records for Flowering Plants in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia Barry R Taylor, Jonathan Ferrier, Randolph Lauff and David J Garbary	109


Are Industrialized Fisheries Sustainable? Alan Longhurst	125


Squalene in Nova Scotian Deep-Sea Sharks and in the Pacific Eulachon RG Ackman and A Timmins	141


Assessment of Environmental Conditions in Sydney Harbour: General Introduction PA Yeats	149


Sources and Distribution of Metal Contamination in Surficial Sediments of Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia DH Loring, PA Yeats and TG Milligan	153


Heavy Metal Distributions in the Waters of Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia PA Yeats and JA Dalziel	171


Risk Estimates: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sydney Harbour Sediments and Lobster Thomas L King	187


NSIS Student Science Awards 2007 Prize Winning papers	201
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: Obligations and Opportunities for Scientists and Science Educators Jason Loxton	203
Turmeric: Not So Spicy After All Robert G Harris	213


NSIS Presidential Address and Reports from Council Officers Session 2006-2006	223


By-laws of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (revised 2008)	231

Editorial Board: RG Ackman, M Dadswell, S Payne, B Petrie, DJW Piper, A Taylor,

M Willison

Editor: James E Stewart

Associate Editor: Peter Wells

@NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, 2008

Layout by Gail LeBlanc; Printing by Halcraft Printers Inc.

Date of Publication: September 2008

Copies of the Proceedings may be purchased from Sharon Longard, Killam Library, Dalhousie University. E-mail: sharon.longard@dal.ca

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