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Totals (1914-1926) 
French 
6,294 song texts, excluding those in a few manuscripts. 
3,766 melodies recorded on the phonograph. 
494 song melodies recorded by ear. 
319 folk tales. 
191 anecdotes and narratives. 
4,299 photographs. 
105 dance melodies (excluding those in old notebooks). 
308 specimens of colonial technology. 
Blason populaire (or folk nicknames, including geographic, in a few counties). 
A large number of rhymes, sayings, remedies, folk beliefs, etc. 
Voluminous data on the ancient architecture and manual arts of Quebec. 
English 
2,000 or over, formulae, sayings, remedies recorded in various parts of Canada. 
125 or more, folk songs (a considerable part of this material has been published). 
91 manuscript pages folk-lore as recorded along Fraser river, B.C. 
Miscellaneous folk-lore collections from Ontario, Nova Scotia, etc. 
DIVISION OF BIOLOGY 
R. M. Anderson, Chief of the Division, reports as follows: 
The Division of Biology has at present two main subdivisions, zoology 
and botany. The only zoological collections which have curators actively 
engaged in systematic work are mammalogy, ornithology, and herpetology, 
but there are considerable collections in some branches of marine and 
freshwater invertebrates, and a small collection of fishes. The national 
collection of insects, which was formerly a part of the Museum, was loaned 
to the Entomological branch, Department of Agriculture, several years 
ago at the time Parliament was occupying the museum building, and is 
still stored in the Birks Building. The National Herbarium has a large 
collection of botanical specimens, cared for by a chief botanist, with one 
herbarium assistant. 
A list of the staff of the division as at present constituted is given in a 
following article on the National Museum. 
Exhibits and Research 
Since April, 1926, progress has been made in the installation of biolo- 
gical exhibits. Six more unit-sized cases of mahogany and plate-glass 
construction have been set up by the staff carpenters during the year. 
Three of these filled the remaining space on the north side of the hall, 
and three more, including one to be used at present as a deep wall case, 
were installed on the south side of the hall for the temporary reception 
of part of the systematic exhibit of mammals of Canada. 
The systematic collection of mounted birds was much advanced 
and extended during the year by concentration of the preparatory staff 
on bird mounting, cleaning, and remodelling of old specimens and groups 
in anticipation of the 44th annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ 
Union, which was held in the Museum October 11 to 14, 1926. The mount- 
ed collection now contains representative species of all the groups of 
Canadian birds, and a nearly complete representation of all the Canadian 
species from the grebes to the hummingbirds, as follows: 
