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most of their efforts to completion of habitat groups of birds and specimens 
to fill out the systematic collection of birds, and later some time was 
devoted to preparing some of the older mammal specimens for exhibition. 
Mr. Perron, although devoting much of his time to tanning mammal 
skins, spent some time in assisting with the preparation of the mammal 
groups. Mr. Blakely was kept busy during most of the time in remaking 
and cleaning old skins and fresh salted skins which came in from the 
Arctic expedition and from some of the field parties. The following is a 
partial outline of the work done by the above-mentioned members of the staff : 
Birds prepared for study collections (mostly large water birds, 
such as ducks and geese) 254 
Smaller mammals prepared for study collections 36 
Larger mammal skins tanned (moose, caribou, deer, wolf, fox, 
seal, bear, etc.) 26 
Mammals and birds prepared for exhibition purposes 106 
Specimens collected 14 
Plaster casts.. 309 
Wax and celluloid pieces for group accessories 1,033 
Lantern slides coloured, lettered labels, and colour plates .... 73 
Joseph Rochon and Donald MacDonald were mostly engaged in 
osteological work, but did also some work in local collecting of specimens 
for the Museum. Work in the laboratory included the cleaning of skulls 
of most of the mammal accessions of the year, numbering seven hundred 
and eighty-one specimens, together with numerous bones, and in some 
cases complete skeletons of the animals. Work was continued in cleaning 
and maceration of large skeletons, and a complete skeleton of a large bull 
moose was completed and installed in the exhibition halls. 
A collection of biological specimens for loan to teachers of art and 
natural science in educational institutions is kept. During the past year 
three hundred and thirty-seven loans were made. The collection is not 
large, and suitable or duplicate specimens of many common species are 
not available for loan purposes, but certain schools have found the material 
very useful. Of the forty-five varieties of mammals and birds available 
for loan, the beaver was loaned twenty-three times, the muskrat eighteen, 
the red fox eleven, the chickadee twenty-one, the downy woodpecker 
seventeen, and the crow twelve. 
Accessions 
Accessions to the Biological Collections: 
Mammals received and catalogued 781 
Birds received and catalogued 1,605 
Reptiles and amphibians received and catalogued 259 
Birds’ eggs (sets) and nests 
Accessions of Mammals: 
By members of staff: 
Chas. H. Young, Saskatchewan and Alberta 273 
J. D. Soper, Baffin island, N.W.T 231 
Jos. Rochon, Quebec 90 
Hamilton M. Laing, Alberta 44 
C. G. Harrold, Alberta 21 
R. M. Anderson, Quebec 20 
C. E. Johnson, Ontario 12 
C. L. Patch, Quebec 2 
D. MacDonald, Quebec 2 
P. A. Taverner, Alberta 1 
F. W. Waugh, Labrador, old specimens catal 10 
