Fig. 16. Wood Bison habitat group, presented by Col. Harry Snyder, 1936. 
1959. J. V. Wright has replaced him as archaeologist for this area. 
The field of Eskimo archaeology was re-entered in 1949 with a 
co-operative expedition under H. B. Collins of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, and this work was continued by W. E. Taylor both before and 
after joining the permanent staff in 1956. Prehistoric midden sites on 
Vancouver Island have been investigated by Miss Katherine Capes 
since 1956. Research in physical anthropology, largely neglected 
since the departure of Sir Francis Knowles, was revived in 1958, 
when L, Oschinsky joined the Museum staff. In 1955, following the 
retirement of Dr. Leechman, Dr. MacNeish became Senior Archae- 
ologist, with responsibility for directing the Museum’s programme 
in archaeology and physical anthropology. 
The older Biological Division also became divided in the post- 
war period, forming a Zoology Section and a National Herbarium 
Section. With the complete separation of the Museum and the 
Geological Survey in 1950, vertebrate palaeontology as a subject 
for research was assigned to the Museum, under the direction of 
C. M. Sternberg, who had led many fossil-hunting expeditions to 
western Canada. Dr. Anderson retired in 1945 but retained his 
interest in the Museum’s work on mammals. Dr. Rand left the 
Museum in 1947; his work on mammals was continued by A. W. 
Cameron until 1958. Meanwhile W. E. Godfrey had been appointed 
as Ornithologist, to continue the Taverner tradition in systematic 
ornithology. In 1950 L. S. Russell became Chief Zoologist; his 
specific field of research was mammalian palaeontology. The same 
year, research on arthropods was begun with the appointment of 
E. L, Bousfield as Invertebrate 2k)oIogist. After C. M. Sternberg 
retired in 1951, reptilian palaeontology was somewhat neglected 
until the appointment of W. Langston, Jr., in 1954. Patch also 
retired in 1951, and J, S, Bleakney took his place as Herpetologist. 
Bleakney did important work on the reptiles and amphibians of 
eastern Canada but resigned from the staff in 1958. His place has 
been taken by one of his students, F. R. Cook. Research in ichthy- 
ology, largely neglected by the Museum, was begun by D. E. 
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