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demand. Since most of the teachers have little or no knowledge of the 
specimens they borrow, the preparator furnishes the necessary instruction. 
The Coast Salish and Bella Coola cases in the west exhibition hall 
were entirely revised during the summer, and the space given to these 
tribes appreciably increased. Labels accompany all specimens, and use 
is made also of maps and case labels. The division is deeply indebted 
to the Messrs. Southam, the well-known publishers, for the donation of 
six valuable pictures of British Columbia subjects, painted by W. Langdon 
Kihn; five of them now hang in the east exhibition hall, where they have 
attracted much favourable attention. 
The creation of a series of habitat groups is under consideration, 
and the preparator has been instructed to design a model of a group, 
illustrating a scene from the Plains’ Indian area, that could be erected 
in the east exhibition hall. Already he has made considerable progress 
with the model, although the manifold routine duties that attach to his 
position seriously interfere with this and other technical work that would 
vastly improve the exhibits. In fact, the specimens under his care have 
so greatly increased in number, and their use is becoming so extended, 
that the work they entail is beyond the capacity of any single man and 
the help of a permanent assistant is sorely needed. It is of interest to note 
that the preparator has introduced an electrolytic method of treating 
iron specimens that are coated with rust. It has proved so satisfactory 
that a short description was sent to “Popular Science Monthly,” which 
will publish it in the near future. 
Mr. O. E. Prud’homme has made drawings during the past year of 
a large number of Eskimo specimens for a future report by Mr. Jenness. 
He also prepared a map for Professor Mcllwraith’s report on the Bella 
Coola Indians, and made the drawing of Eskimo harpoons incorporated 
in this annual report of the division. 
During the winter Dr. F. G. Speck, Professor of Anthropology in the 
University of Pennsylvania, paid a visit to the Museum to study the collec- 
tions gathered by himself and others among the North-Eastern Algonkian 
tribes. 
Professor Leonard Bloomfield, State University of Ohio, who was 
engaged by the Museum in 1925 to carry out some researches on the Cree 
reserves of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, has presented 1,536 pages of 
his final report, which he will complete in the near future. Miss Helen 
H. Roberts, Yale University, who was engaged to transcribe and draft 
the music of a collection of Nootka Indian songs recorded on the phono- 
graph by Dr. Sapir, completed her work and sent in the manuscript, 
which has been forwarded to Dr. Sapir, University of Chicago, that he 
may add his translations of the songs and prepare a full report for possible 
publication. 
The photographic collections of the division were transferred during 
the winter to the Library for inclusion in a central collection that will 
illustrate every phase of th« department’s activities and be available to 
all students. 
Field Work 
Four parties were sent into the field during the summer of 1926, 
one to Alaska, two to British Columbia, and one to Ontario. Details 
of some of the work accomplished, and the results achieved, will appear 
