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should issue Volumes II (Birds and Mammals), III (Insects), IV and V (Botany), 

 XI (Geology and Geography), XIII, XIV, and XV (Ethnology), and XVI 

 (Archaeology.) After the amalgamation of the Department of the Naval 

 Service with the Department of Militia and Defence in 1922, the interests_ of 

 that department in the reports were transferred to the Department of Marine 

 and Fisheries. Where several different reports are included under one volume, 

 dated separates are issued for distribution to specialists interested in the par- 

 ticular branch covered, and copies are preserved to be bound in the complete 

 series of volumes. 



As soon as possible after the return of the expedition, the collections of 

 insects were turned over to the late Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entom- 

 ologist and Consulting Zoologist of the Department of Agriculture and Honorary 

 Curator of the National Collection of Insects. He immediately made arrange- 

 ments to have the specimens sent to the twenty-four specialists who have had 

 a share in the preparation of this volume^ Much credit is due to the energy 

 of Dr. Hewitt in pushing the completion of the reports and for careful attention 

 to their form and accuracy. After the death of Dr. Hewitt, Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 F.R.S.C. his successor as Dominion Entomologist, has aided much in bringing the 

 work to a close. The index to Volume III was in a large part prepared by Mr. 

 R. P. Gorham, Assistant Entomologist in the Entomological Branch of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



ARCTIC PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE. 

 Ottawa, November, 1922. 



