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ashore, pitching our niosc|uito-l)ars on wet soil or drv as the case might 

 be. At five o'clock each morning we rose, bundled up our bars and 

 bedding, re-embarked, and continued oiu' journey. Twenty miles' 

 journey we considered a good day's work. As we were not fortunate 

 enough to sight any moose, our diet was a well-nigh uninterrupted 

 combination of bacon, bannocks and beans. We made the trip, as a 

 whole, in relatively short time, covering the total distance of 437 miles 

 in seventeen days, but it was with a sense of great relief that we ulti- 

 mately sighted the wharves and buildings of Athabasca Landing. 

 Fi'om there we took the stage to Edmonton, and were again in railroad 

 connection with the outside world. 



R. H. LowiE. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



THE Hox. Mason Mitchell, to whom the departments of An- 

 thropology and ^Mammalogy are already indebted for much 

 valuable material from eastern Asia, presented to the Museum 

 in December an exceptional series of ethnological specimens from Tibet, 

 together with some choice things from China and India. An extended 

 notice of this acquisition is reserved for a future number of the Journal. 



The Department of Anthropology has recently received a guanaco 

 skin cape as a gift from ^Ir. Charles H. Townsend, who obtained it 

 some years ago at Punta Arena, Strait of Magellan. The guanaco is a 

 mammal related to and somewhat larger than the llama. The hair of 

 the adult is coarse, so that old skins are not suitable for use in the manu- 

 facture of garments, but the hair of the young is fine, and animals proba- 

 bly not more than two weeks old are slaughtered for skins to be used in 

 capes like the one just received. The skins are sewed together with 

 ostrich sinew. The Tehuelches of the continental side of the Strait 

 wear the robe with the hair next to the body, while the Onas across the 

 water from them, where the rainfall is much greater, turn the fleece 

 side out, since the hair readily sheds water. 



The following members have been elected since the last issue of the 

 Journal: Life Members, Messrs. George Shiras, 3d, James W. 



