Contents 
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Introduction 1 
The Museum in 1910 2 
Administration since 1910 5 
^ Victoria Memorial Museum building 10 
Research programme 13 
Exhibition 25 
Education 32 
Summary 37 
Illustrations 
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Rotunda of the National Museum (Frontispiece) 
Fig. 1. John Macoun (1832-1920) 2 
2. Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863-1919) 3 
3. Reginald Walter Brock (1874-1935) 5 
4. William Mclnnes (1858-1925) 6 
5. William Henry Collins (1878-1937) 7 
6. Frederick James Alcock (1947-1956) 8 
7. Victoria Memorial Museum in 1913, prior to removal of 
centre tower 11 
8. Victoria Memorial Museum, 1916, after removal of centre 
tower 11 
9. Edward Sapir (1884-1939) 13 
10. Marius Barbeau (1911-1948) 14 
11. Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1872-1940) 15 
12. Percival Algernon Taverner (1875-1947) 16 
13. Scientific personnel of Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913 .... 17 
14. Rudolph Martin Anderson (1917-1945) 18 
15. Diamond Jenness (1916-1948) 19 
16. Wood Bison habitat group 22-23 
17. Hall of Invertebrate Palaeontology, 1912 26 
18. Hall of Minerals and Rocks, 1912 26 
19. Hall of Palaeontology, 1935 28 
^ 20. Hall of Birds and Mammals, 1934 28 
21. Hall of West Coast Indians and of Eskimos, 1934 30 
22. Saturday morning children’s lecture, 1954 34 
23. Members of the Macoun Cliib at work, 1949 36 
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