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Special exhibits in the United States National Museum had 

 been prepared for the meetings. Twenty-four busts repre- 

 senting distinguished individual Indians, from delegations sent 

 by various tribes to Washington, were exhibited as examples 

 of accurate and permanent records of the normal types of In- 

 dians. Another exhibit showed three varieties of artificial 

 skull deformation practised in America. Tattooing was also 

 shown. It will be remembered that both skull deformations 

 and tattooing are found among the Indians of the Pacific Coast 

 of Canada. An archaeological exhibit of economic plants and 

 plant products of prehistoric America was made by W. E. Staf- 

 ford, Economic Botanist of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. This included specimens of corn, bean's and 

 squash seeds, similar to those found in the archaeological Iro- 

 quoian site at Roebuck, Ontario, recejitly explored by the Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Forest Protection in Canada. 



The Commission of Conservation has just issued a report 

 on "Forest Protection in Canada, 1913-1914," which is of par- 

 ticular interest. It contains much information respecting the 

 work of the provincial forest services and of the federal depart- 

 ments intrusted with the care of our forests. 



Forest fire protection is assuming a large place in public 

 attention. It is obvious that, if Canada is to continue as a 

 wood-producing country, she must .conserve her resources of 

 this natural product. The report treats exhaustively of the 

 fire protection of forest lands along railway rights-of-way. 

 Through co-operative action, great headway has been made in 

 securing the reduction of forest losses through fires traceable 

 to railway causes. 



The forests of British Columbia and on Dominion lands 

 in the west have been dealt with in reports containing the re- 

 sults of special studies conducted by Dr. C. D. Howe and Mr. 

 J. H. White. The Trent watershed in Ontario has also received 

 especial attention, in a report of an investigation by Dr. C. D. 

 Howe, in the townships of Burleigh and Methuen. This dis 

 trict is important in that, while of yery little value as an agri- 

 cultural area, it is being repeatedly overrun by forest fires, and 

 the little remaining merchantable timber destroyed. It is sug- 

 gested that the area be placed under the control of the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch for protection from fires and for reforestation. 



