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various parts of Canada, six fine paintings being given to the National 
Museum. These paintings are hung on the walls of the Anthropological 
halls, and serve admirably to explain and supplement the specimens in 
the cases. 
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
D, Jenness, Chief of the Division, reports as follows; 
The Division of Anthropology is organized at the present time to 
carry out researches in ethnology and archaeology. The composition of 
the staff is given in a later article on the National Museum of Canada. The 
study of the physical characteristics of the aborigines of Canada has been 
practically neglected since 1921, when Sir Francis H. S. Knowles resigned 
from the position of physical anthropologist on account of ill-health. The 
Chief of the Division has attempted a few researches along this line in the 
course of his ethnological and archaeological work, but a successor to Sir 
Francis Knowles is needed. 
The division also needs an assistant ethnologist to prosecute field work 
among the Indians of eastern Canada, that was formerly carried on by F. W. 
Waugh, who disappeared mysteriously near Montreal in the autumn of 1924 
when returning from a field trip. 
The ethnological and archaeological collections of the division have 
increased greatly during the last five years, necessitating a corresponding 
increase in storage facilities. Approximately 4,000 new specimens were 
cleaned, repaired in certain cases, catalogued, and stored away by the 
preparator during the fiscal year 1926-1927 ; an even greater number remain 
still unpacked, awaiting the construction of new storage cabinets. The 
new storage quarters on Frank street are in full use; though greatly superior 
to the old quarters on Wellington street, now finally abandoned, they are 
much less convenient than rooms in the Museum itself would be if accom- 
modation were available. The Frank Street quarters, indeed, can house 
only those specimens that are least perishable and least often required, 
since the building is not heated during the winter months. 
The policy of monthly inspections of all specimens in storage has been 
continued, and a printed “Monthly Inspection” form is attached to each 
case to enable its history to be read at a glance, thereby facilitating the 
closer observation of objects peculiarly liable to deterioration or destruc- 
tion. It is a pleasure to record that no specimens were lost through the 
depredations of insects. 
During the past year a selection of specimens of French-Canadian 
wood carving and other crafts was made for the Toronto Art Gallery; a 
special exhibit of specimens of French-Canadian hand-made pottery was 
sent to the Canadian Handicrafts Guild for exhibition at Montreal; and 
some specimens of French-Canadian homespun were exhibited temporarily 
in the Museum itself. About three hundred and fifty specimens from 
various Indian tribes have been selected from the storage cases for the 
festival of the Oblate Order at Joliette, Quebec, during the coming summer, 
and nine of the best examples of British Columbia native carvings were 
lent to the National Gallery for exhibition at Paris, France, with the Wemb- 
ley collection of Canadian paintings. 
So many specimens are lent each year to teachers from the Normal 
School that small collections have been set aside expressly to meet the 
