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Giraffe book : distribution letters.
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Anne Innis Dagg is a former a faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, in Independent Studies. She is a scholar and writer in several areas of interest, from zoology to women's studies. The daughter of Mary Quayle Innis and Harold Adams Innis, Anne was born on January 25, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario.
She became interested in giraffes as a child, and went on to take a BA from the University of Toronto in Honours Biology in 1955 (as gold medalist), and an MA from the University of Toronto in genetics in 1956, where she was also a demonstrator for botany and genetics from 1954-1956. She then traveled alone to South Africa to study the giraffe in 1956-1957.
In 1957 she married Ian Dagg, a physicist. They moved to Waterloo, Ontario, in 1959, where Ian became a professor at the new University of Waterloo.
Anne worked as a part-time lecturer at Waterloo Lutheran University in anatomy and physiology from 1962-1965, and then as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Waterloo in 1966. In 1967 she earned her PhD, which examined gaits and their development in Infraorder Pecora, from the University of Waterloo. She was also a sessional assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology that year.
Anne Innis Dagg did research at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, in 1967-1968, when on Ian’s sabbatical with their family of three children. She was an assistant professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Zoology, from 1968-1972 where she taught mammalogy, wildlife management and general biology. She became a resource person for Integrated Studies at the University of Waterloo from 1978-1985, the Academic Director for Independent Studies (the same program but renamed) from 1986-1989, and finally senior academic advisor for this program from 1989 to the present.
Anne Innis Dagg started Otter Press in 1972 with the publication of Matrix Optics by Ian Dagg and in 1974 Mammals of Waterloo and South Wellington counties by herself. Other books she has written include: Canadian wildlife and man (McClelland and Stewart, 1974); Mammals of Ontario (Otter Press, 1974); The giraffe: its biology, behavior and ecology with J.B. Foster, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976; 1982); Wildlife management in Europe (Otter Press, 1977); Running, walking and jumping: the science of locomotion (Wykeham Science Series, 1977); Camel quest: Research on the Saharan camel (York Publishing,1978, 1989); A reference book of urban ecology (Otter Press, 1981); The camel: its ecology, behavior and relationship with man (University of Chicago Press, 1981); Harems and other horrors: sexual bias in behavioral biology (Otter Press, 1983); The fifty per cent solution. Why should woman pay for men’s culture? (Otter Press, 1986); Moreton Island: its history and natural history (Moreton Island Press, 1986); MisEducation: women and Canadian universities (with P.J. Thompson), OISE Press, 1988); User-friendly university: what every student should know (Otter Press, 1994); The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 (Wilfrid University Press, 2001), and five more books since that time.
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Contains material relating to Anne Innis Dagg's research on the distribution of giraffe populations in various African countries. Includes correspondence to and from Anne Innis Dagg, notes, 2 maps of South Africa, 1 ca. 1960 map of Mocambique, and 1 map of Rhodesia with hand colouring and annotations.
Incoming correspondents include:
- H. Sandon - University of Khartoum (December 23, 1959)
- Dr. Ing. Franz Losimfeldt Heske - Department of Forestry and Game, Ethiopia ([December?] 24, 1959)
- H. F. Lamprey - Game biologist, Tanganyika (December 30, 1959)
- P. [illegible] - Ministere de l'economique rurale et de la cooperation, Senegal (December 31,1959)
- [illegible] - Game Department, Nairobi (January 4, 1960)
- E. B. Edney - University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (January 4, 1960)
- J. Meester - Transvaal Museum (January 4, 1960)
- [illegible] - Northern Rhodesia Office of the Headquarters Game Officer (January 5, 1960)
- [illegible] - South West Africa Office of the Administrator, Windhoek (January 7, 1960)
- E. Davison - Office of the Chief Game Warden Federal National Parks Dept., Southern Rhodesia (January 12, 1960)
- P. L. Dekeyser - University de Dakar Institut Francais D'Afrique Noire (January 19, 1960)
- R. Hault - Congo Belge Direction Generale (January 19, 1960)
- J. J. Lawrie - Ministry of Natural Resources, Somaliland Protectorate (February 4, 1960)
- P. F. Bromfield - Bechuanaland Protectorate (February 10, 1960)
- Eduardo de Castro Amaro - Provincia de Mocambique (February 10, 1960)
- Solad Abdi Mohamud - Minister of Agriculture & Livestock of Somalia Government (February 11, 1960)
- [J. E.?] Webb - University College of Ibadan (February 24, 1960)
- George A. Petrides - Michigan State University (July 5, 1961)
- H. K. Buechner - Washington State University (September 29, 1961)
- Allan C. Brooks - Game Department, Uganda (October 14, 1961) [includes hand drawn map of Uganda]
- Reay H. N. Smithers - National Museums of Rhodesia (June 4, 1968)
- W. F. H. Ansell - Chilanga, Zambia (March 10, 1971)
- Abdirahman Haji Noor - Republica Democratica Somalia Ministry of Rural Development & Livestock (March 15, 1971)
- Alexandre de Sousa Dias - Provincia de Mocambique Direccao Dos Servicos Veterinaria (March 17, 1971)
- A. C. Campbell - Republic of Botswana Department of Wildlife & National Parks (March 18, 1971) [includes map showing distribution of giraffe populations in Botswana]
- Fraser Tong - Demoncratic Republic of the Sudan, Ministry of Animal Resources, Game & Fisheries (March 23, 1971)
- Mabratu Fesseha - Imperial Ethiopian Government Wild Life Conservation Department (March 30, 1971)
- Paul Pierret - Republique Demoncratique du Congo Institut National Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (March 31, 1971)
- J. H. Grobler - Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management, Rhodesia (April 14, 1971)
- R. I. G. Attwell - Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management, Rhodesia (April 21, 1971)
- Julio Lopes - Safrique (April 29, 1971) [includes 1967 map of Mocambique]
- A. A. Ferrar - Kyle National Park Wildlife Research Unit (May 11, 1971) [includes map of South Africa with hand draw annotations]
- Vasco Antunes Sousa Dias - Direccao Provincial dos Servicos de Veterinaria (August 30, 1971)
- Elizabeth M. Nesbit Elliott - East Rudolf National Park, Kenya (April 1974)
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February 10, 1960 letter from Eduardo de Castro Amaro - Provincia de Mocambique in poor condition. Encased in paper with staples by Dagg accompanied by handwritten note that reads: Letter attacked by cat.
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