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After his return from the Maritime Provinces Dr. Malte attended the 
International Congress of Plant Sciences held at Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., 
August 16-23. Opportunity was taken of the presence of a large number 
of botanists from Great Britain, United States, and Canada to discuss 
matters pertaining to Canadian botany and particularly to botanical 
survey work. At the Congress he discussed with Professor C. H. Osten- 
feld, Copenhagen, Denmark, the feasibility and advisability of preparing 
jointly a flora of Arctic Canada, the said flora to be the first of a series of 
sectional floras of the Dominion of Canada. 
After the return from the International Congress, Mr. Malte botan- 
ized a few weeks at Constance lake, Ontario, about 20 miles west of 
Ottawa. 
Plants received outside of collection made by staff: 
Mr, F. J. A. Morris, Peterborough, Ont 8 
Dr. M. Porsild, Disco, Greenland 245 
Botanical Section, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 100 
Dr. G. E. du Rietz, XJpsala, Sweden 119 
Mr. Norman Criddle, Treesbank, Man 223 
Mr. H. Groh, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa 13 
Miss J. Bostock, Summerland, B.C 1 
Mr. J. Mason, Victoria, B.C... . . 80 
Mr. S. E. Clark, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa 1 
Rev. Bro. Marie Victorin, Montreal, Que 157 
Rev. Bro. Louis-Marie, Oka, Que 50 
Total 997 
At the end of the fiscal year the number of mounted sheets was about 
118,100. 
DIVISION OF MINERALOGY (Geological Survey) 
Eugene Poitevin, Chief of the Division, reports as follows: 
The Division of Mineralogy dates back to the creation of the Geological 
Survey more than eighty years ago. Dr. Sterry Hunt, the first mineralogist 
and curator, laid the foundation of the mineral collections. Many of the 
minerals collected and described by him at that early date are still in our 
possession. After Dr. Hunt retired he was succeeded in turn by Dr. B. J. 
Harrington, Christian Hoffmann, and Robert A. A. Johnston, who not only 
continued to add to the collections of the Museum, but also contributed 
largely to the knowledge of Canadian minerals. 
The museum functions of the Division of Mineralogy, which are 
incidental to its duties to the Geological Survey, to which it belongs, are 
to collect, exchange, and display mineral specimens, to contribute to the 
study of Canadian minerals, and to promote knowledge of mineralogy by 
lectures and preparation of educational collections. A statement of the 
composition of the staff of the division is given in a following article on the 
National Museum. 
Special attention was devoted to continuing the rearrangement of our 
collections. This work was commenced over two years ago and consider- 
able progress has been made. 
Over 30,000 specimens have been handled and arranged in systematic 
order. There is still much detail work to be done in verifying and labelling 
specimens. 
