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to work, various offices for members of the 

 senate, and offices for the Hansard staff which 

 records the deliberations of the house were 

 made ready before Monday noon. 



The exhibits in the permanent anthropolog- 

 ical hall were left intact. Besides the exhibits 

 the archeological specimens in storage under 

 the exhibition cases were also undisturbed. 

 The ethnological exhibits which are of speci- 

 mens from the Eskimo, the Indians of the 

 northwest coast of America and the Algon- 

 quian and Iroquoian Indians of the eastern 

 woodlands, were undisturbed. The aisles in 

 this hall, however, were used for storing fur- 

 nishings and specimens from various other 

 departments and for office space for the eth- 

 nologists. 



The zoological hall, similar in size to the 

 others, was cleared by Sunday noon. This 

 necessitated the taking apart of splendid large 

 group eases and the dismantling of groups of 

 seals, mountain goat, mountain sheep, musk 

 oxen and various other exhibits and the re- 

 moval to storage in the aisles of the anthro- 

 pological hall of the smaller cases containing 

 exhibits of mammals, birds and reptiles. The 

 space was divided up into offices for the mem- 

 bers 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 ver- 

 tebrate paleontologist. The invertebrate 

 paleontological offices were moved to the 

 third floor. The archeological office was 

 moved to smaller space in the entomological 

 laboratory on the third floor, all specimens 

 being taken to the laboratory. The known loss 

 to archeological specimens caused by the move 

 from both office and tentative exhibition is 

 negligible, the damage being less than one 

 dollar. Work on monographs will be ham- 

 pered for lack of space to spread out the ma- 

 terial for study, but every specimen is still 

 available, on permanent 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 ceil- 

 ing in most of the remaining space. The eth- 

 nological 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 re- 

 tained, but the little lecture hall was released. 

 The lectures in course were postponed indefi- 

 nitely. The zoological study material and the 

 herbarium were undisturbed. The physical 

 anthropological office was concentrated into 

 about half its former space, and an ethnolog- 

 ical storage room was vacated. 



In the basement the workshops and labora- 

 tories were mostly retained, as were the taxi- 

 dermist department, the laboratory of verte- 

 brate paleontology, the photographic depart- 

 ment, and half a hall devoted to the workshop 

 of the National Gallery. Some work rooms 

 were vacated, however, and the distribution 

 offices with their vast store of publications and 

 maps were moved to another part of the city. 



Of about a hundred and forty members of 

 the survey staff over seventy moved about a 

 mile to a series of buildings recently taken 

 over by the government on the north side of 

 Wellington Street between Bank and Kent 

 Streets, while some sixty of those most inti- 

 mately connected with museimi work retained 

 room in the Victoria Memorial Museum 

 building. In this work of moving, militia 

 motor lories were pressed into service, as well 

 as sleighs and other transports, and the office 

 furnishings and working specimens went out 

 at the rate of sixty loads in one day. 



The National Gallery of Canada turned 

 over all its premises except two rooms, one on 

 the first floor and one on the second, in which 

 the art objects were compactly stored. It re- 

 tained its offices and workshop. Thus it 

 turned over about five sevenths of its space. 

 The director of the gallery was called upon 

 and he directed the hanging of pictures in the 

 part of the building occupied by parliament 

 and with his staff assisted in rescuing pictures 

 from the parliament building. These activi- 

 ties afford an example of museum usefulness. 



