Q 6 ProvinciAL Museum ReEporvt. 1913 


Mount Robson region in the summer of 1911. A small appropriation was made to Director 
Wheeler, who had offered to look after specimens for the Provincial Museum. I met the 
party on their return to Edmonton, Alberta, and arranged with Messrs. Riley and Hollister 
that, after they had taken the collection to the Smithsonian Institution and examined the 
specimens, they would send a report on the birds and mammals of that district, also to send 
the Provincial Museum duplicates of the birds and mammals collected. 
The reports have been received, also the specimens, several of which are new species, 
being described by N. Hollister. 
E. M. Anderson, Assistant Curator, was Acting-Curator from May to August, during 
the Curator’s visit East and to Europe, who had gone to study plans, arrangement, and 
management of the larger institutions of America and Europe, in preparation for the new 
Museum to be built in Victoria, and also to attend the annual meeting of the American 
Association of Museums. 
The first museum visited was the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago ; second, 
the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum at Washington, where considerable time 
was spent in going over the vast collections, also through all the departments of the Biological 
Survey. I was loyally received and entertained and extended every privilege by the 
Secretary, Dr. Chas. D. Walcott, Mr. Rathbun, Dr. Merriam, Director Henshaw, and others 
of the staff of the Smithsonian Institution. 
From Washington I proceeded to New York City, and attended the meeting of the 
American Association of Museums, held June 4th to 7th, 1912, in the lecture-room of the 
American Museum of Natural History. The meetings were presided over by the President, 
Prof. Ed. 8. Morse, of the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. The address of welcome was 
delivered by Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural 
History; followed by the roll-call, eighty-four members answering their names, being repre- 
senta*ives from nearly all the leading museums in America. 
Papers were read on care, management, preservation of specimens, and other matter 
relating to museum-work, and discussions after each. Upon invitation, meetings were held 
at the Metropolitan Museums of Art, and also at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. 
After each meeting suflicient time was given for the inspection of the collections, offices, 
and laboratories. 
Previous to the meeting of the Association of Museums, I visited the American Museum 
of Natural History, and was well received by Dr. Lucas, the Director, and personally 
conducted by him over that magnificent institution, and was given a great amount of 
information in regard to the Museum and museum-work. 
After the Association of Museums adjourned, I left New York for London, England, and 
there visited the Natural History Museum and other museums, and was received by Director 
Fletcher and Prof. Lydekker. I inspected the vast collection of valuable material to be seen 
in the institution. While in London I received an invitation from the Right Honourable 
Lord Pontypridd, President of the National Museum of Wales, at Cardiff, through Dr. Hoyle, 
the Director, to be present at the laying of the foundation-stone of the new National Museum 
in that city by His Majesty King George the Fifth on July 26th, 1912. 
The ceremony took place in the presence of nearly three thousand people, representing 
all classes of the community and all parts of the principality. His Majesty’s gracious words 
in reply to the loyal address presented to him, the interest he displayed in the details of the 
model, and his remarks to the officers of the Museum gave abundant evidence of his cordial 
approval of the enterprise and his desire for its success. The proceedings were carried out in 
the brilliant sunshine, and gave full satisfaction to all concerned. 
