Documents in the fonds relate to the National Research Council - International Biological Program Natural Area Survey - Conservation Terrestrial Saskatchewan Region. Most regions of Canada had an IBP Committee working toward the establishment of a Natural Area system. The Sask. provincial program started in 1968. Fieldwork began in 1969 with 95 areas were selected for the inventory.

Ground sloth and glyptodonte. Colbert, 1955, p. 258.

Citation reads: "Whale skull on high level beach. Simonee Michael, Milne Inlet, N.W.T. August 15, 1965."

Cervine deer or stag, the American Wapiti or 'elk' (Cervus). Different from the true 'elk' (Alces) of Old World, which is the moose of North America. Colbert, 1955, p. 392.

Lamarck in caricature (Umbgrove 1943, p. 51).

Ellesmere Det. Purple saxifrage.

The material in this fonds documents the teaching and research career of Vipen Sawhney. The teaching material includes lecture notes, course outlines, teaching slides and examinations. The research material contains correspondence, notes, articles by Sawhney and others, slides, negatives, photographs and microscope glass slides.