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was given to go through one of the largest wholesale fur houses, and through 
one of the largest plants for the conversion of raw furs into finished gar- 
ments. Other papers ranged from mammalian palaeontology to genetics, 
anatomy, and field studies of life histories. The next annual meeting was 
scheduled for Philadelphia, and it is hoped to have the society meet at 
some future date in Ottawa. 
With Mr. Joseph Rochon as assistant, he spent three weeks in field- 
collecting of small mammals in the region of Blue Sea lake, about 50 miles 
north of Ottawa, and gathering information on the mammalian fauna of 
Gatineau district. 
P. A. Taverner left Ottawa May 15, 1926, for Belvedere, Alberta, 
some 60 miles northwest of Edmonton and 15 miles west of Busby on the 
Edmonton, Dunvegan, and British Columbia railway. Here he was joined 
by Hamilton M. Laing of Comox, B.C., and C. G. Harrold, of Winnipeg, 
experienced field collectors, who have worked for the Museum during 
previous seasons. Their immediate field of work was at the north end 
of lac La Nonne, near the farm of A. D, Henderson, a well-known field 
ornithologist and collector whose assistance and advice were of much value 
to the party. After seeing through the early summer's work Mr. Taverner 
returned to Ottawa, leaving Mr. Laing and Mr. Harrold to continue the 
work during the summer and the early part of the autumn migration. 
Notes on tw r o hundred and five species of birds were obtained and speci- 
mens of one hundred and sixty-four species were collected. 
Charles H. Young left Ottawa, May 10, 1926, and collected at the 
northern edge of Cypress hills, south of Maple Creek, in southwestern 
Saskatchewan, until July 13. The work was interesting on account of 
bringing in several species which have a rather limited range in the high 
plains region of Canada, such as the sagebrush pocket gopher, Osgood 
white-footed mouse, bean mouse, and a number of specimens of the dusky 
mountain shrew, a notable extension of the range of the latter. He also 
found nests of the pink-sided junco, orange-crowned warbler, and western 
willet. On July 14 he moved westward to Olds, Alberta, taking up quarters 
towards the edge of the foothills west of Olds, where a valuable collection 
was made. He returned to Ottawa September 20. 
J. Dewey Soper, junior zoologist (temporary), w r ho had been working 
in Baffin island since 1924, spent the autumn of 1925 at Pangnirtung 
after returning from a summer spent in exploring the south side of Nettilling 
lake and the upper part of Koukdjuak river which drains Nettilling lake 
into Foxe channel. Some time was spent in plotting maps and preparing 
notes on the summer’s work, as well as preparing specimens for shipment 
to Ottawa the next summer. Desiring to put in his time to best advantage 
during the winter, Mr. Soper decided to make a traverse of the island 
from Cumberland gulf to Foxe channel, a journey which had heretofore 
been made by but one white man, Bernhard Hantzsch, a young German 
naturalist, who made the trip with a small party of Eskimos, and died 
from hardships and privations on the shore of Foxe channel in 1911. Pur- 
suing a somewhat different course Mr. Soper crossed the eastern range 
of mountains to Nettilling lake, westward across the lake, and the low 
level plain between Nettilling lake and Foxe channel. This region was 
found to be almost destitute of animal life in winter, and for obvious reasons 
is uninhabited. On the return trip Mr. Soper turned north and completed 
