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The exhibits in the permanent anthropological hall were 

 left intact. Besides the exhibits the archaeological specimens 

 in storage tinder the exhibition cases were also undisturbed. 

 The ethnological exhibits which are of specimens from the 

 Eskimo, the Indians of the north-west coast of America, and 

 the Algonquian and Iroquoian Indians of the eastern woodlands, 

 were undisturbed. The aisles in this hall, however, were used 

 for storing furnishings and speciinens from various other de- 

 partments, and for office space for the ethnologists. 



The zoological hall, similar in size to the others, was cleared 

 by Sunday noon. This necessitated the taking apart of splen- 

 did large group cases, and the dismantling of groups of seals, 

 mountain goat, mountain sheep, musk oxen, and various other 

 exhibits, and the removal to storage in the ai?les of the anthro- 

 pological hall cases, containing exhibits of mammals, birds and 

 reptiles. The space was divided into offices for the members of 

 the House of Commons. 



The offices on the second floor were promptly vacated with 

 the exception of two, that of the curator and mineralogist and 

 that of the vertebrate palaeontologist. The invertebrate pal- 

 aeontological offices were moved to the third floor. The archaeo- 

 logical office was moved fo smaller space in the entomological 

 laboratory on the third floor, all specimens being taken to the 

 laboratory. The known loss to archaeological specimens caused 

 by the move from both office and tentative exhibition is negli- 

 gible, the damage being less than one dollar. Work on mono- 

 graphs will be hampered for lack of space to spread out the 

 material for study, but every specimen is still available, on per- 

 manent exhibition, in storage under the exhibits, or in the 

 laboratory, where aisles allowing for the free passage of trays 

 are maintained, though the storage reaches the ceiling in most 

 of the remaining space. The ethnological office was moved 

 into the south end of the anthropological exhibition hall, and 

 the botanical office was moved into the botanical herbarium on 

 the third floor. The library was not disturbed. The vacated 

 rooms were at once occupied, chiefly by the Cabinet and other 

 members of the House of Commons. 



The offices, drafting room, workshops, and storage on the 

 third floor, were mostly retained, but the little lecture hall was 

 released. The lectures in course were postponed indefinitely. 

 The zoological study material and the herbarium were undis- 

 turbed. The physical anthropological office was concentrated 

 into about half its former space, and an ethnological storage 

 room was vacated. 



In the basement the workshops and laboratories were mostly 



