Amphibians and Reptiles of Nova Scotia: Species Recorded in the Accession Books of Harry Piers 1899 to 1939 (Curatorial Report #104)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This report summarizes the work on amphibians and reptiles done by Harry Piers, one of the most significant figures in natural history in Nova Scotia during the last 100 years. Piers was a remarkable example of a complete Natural History curator . He had a thorough knowledge of the museum amphibian and reptile collection. He was able to collect, preserve and catalogue specimens from both groups. He had a good working knowledge of the available literature, both popular and scientific, on amphibians and reptiles as well as other groups. Using technical keys he could identify specimens unfamiliar to him. He could interpret herpetology for those lay persons who brought specimens to him and, he published important records in the scientific literature. Perhaps his most important attribute was his uncanny sense of what information would be important for future researchers. It is hoped that, by presenting his records in this curatorial report, it will finally bring to light the remarkable contribution Harry Piers made to the study of Nova Scotian amphibians and reptiles. _________________________________________________________________ Please note: This information is derived from the original ledger books. The content may not reflect the current state of knowledge on the topic documented. Please be aware of this when using this resource.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".