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During the series for 1926-27 the total attendance of children was 
11,650 and of adults 2,695, as compared with 12,350 and 2,303 the year 
before. Following is the program delivered : 
A Visit to the Stars, by R. M. Motherwell, November 13 and November 17, 1926. 
Canada’s Forest Wealth, by Roland D. Craig, November 20 and November 24, 1926. 
Iron in the Lake Superior Region, by T. L. Tanton, November 27 and December 1, 1926. 
The Story of Our Migratory Birds, by Hoyes Lloyd, December 4 and December 8, 1926. 
A Pinch of Salt, by L. H. Cole, December 11 and December 15, 1926. 
Who Are the Indians, by D. Jenness, December 18 and December 22, 1926. 
The Age of Reptiles, by C. M. Sternberg, January 8 and January 12, 1927. 
A Piece of Coal, by B. R. MacKay, January 15 and January 19, 1927. 
What Are Snakes Good For, by Clyde L. Patch, January 22 and January 26, 1927. 
The Story of Good Seed, by F. T. Wahlen, January 29 and February 2, 1927. 
Petroleum and Natural Gas, Their Origin, and World Distribution, by G. S. Hume, Feb- 
ruary 5 and February 9, 1927. 
Small Friends and Foes, by L. S. McLaine, February 12 and February 16, 1927. 
Five Weeks in Sunny Spain, by M. E. Wilson, February 19 and February 23, 1927. 
Fish Culture, by J. A. Rodd, February 26 and March 2, 1927. 
The Fruit Industry of Canada, by A. Fulton, March 5, 1927. 
The Fruit Industry of Canada, by M. B. Davis, March 9, 1927. 
A Naturalist in Baffin Island, by Richard Finnie, March 12, 1927. 
A Naturalist in Baffin Island, by J. Dewey Soper, March 16, 1927. 
CONVERSAZIONES 
The Museum building, with its well-equipped lecture hall, growing 
natural history exhibits, and facilities for entertainment provided by the 
large staffs of the Geological Survey and Museum and Mines Branch, is 
being used more and more for scientific conventions and other gatherings 
and conversaziones are becoming a popular form of entertainment. During 
1926, the increasing desire of the technical services of the Government 
to learn as much as possible of the special activities of the different scientific 
Federal departments led the Professional Institute of the Civil Service of 
Canada (the organization representative of the technical service), to hold 
a conversazione in the Museum on the night of April 14. The Museum 
was decorated for the occasion with flags, shields, and bunting, by the 
Public Works Department, and numerous special exhibits complementary 
to those on permanent view were prepared by officers of the Department of 
Mines. To facilitate the inspection of exhibits a program was issued 
giving a plan of the Museum with a suggested route of inspection and a 
list of special exhibits to be seen. Following the reception in the Museum 
Lecture Hall by the Honourable Minister of Mines and Mrs. Charles 
Stewart, the guests, numbering over eight hundred and including many 
members of both Houses of Parliament and their wives, were conducted on 
simultaneous tours through each of the four floors of the Museum including 
the galleries, departmental offices, library, and preparatory rooms, about 
one hundred officers of the Department of Mines being engaged in either 
escorting the guests or explaining the exhibits. 
An interesting and unique exhibit of over thirty of the most char- 
acteristic, striking, and beautiful plants and wild flowers of the Yukon, 
mounted against water-coloured backgrounds, was contributed by Mrs. 
George Black, F.R.G.S., wife of the Member of Parliament for the Yukon. 
Refreshments were served at 10.30, after which there were music, 
singing, and dancing, in the Anthropological Halls, and a program of 
educational departmental moving pictures in the lecture hall. 
