practical value of research in biology and anthropology. However, 
there has always been a time lag in these fluctuations, because in 
periods of recession a good scientific staff continues to produce, 
whereas after that staff has been depleted by resignations and retire- 
ments it takes some years of favourable support to build up a new 
staff. 
Fig. 10. Marius Barbeau. Ethnologist with the Museum, 1911-1948, His 
principal work has been on West Coast Indian ethnology and French-Canadian 
folklore. 
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