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The present interior arrangement of the Victoria Memorial Museum is 
shown in Figure 1. The building consists of four stories and a basement. 
The basement is occupied by workshops, the photographic laboratory, and 
storerooms. The first, second, and fourth floors were originally laid out 
into halls about 100 feet by 50 feet for exhibition purposes, and the third 
floor subdivided into rooms 20 feet square for offices. The entire east 
wing is occupied by the National Art Gallery. In the remaining three- 
fourths of the building the entire third and fourth floors and two of the 
three halls on the first floor are subdivided into office and storerooms for 
the administrative staff of the Department of Mines and the staff of the 
Geological Survey and National Museum. There remain three halls on 
the second floor, one hall on the first floor, and a small amount of space in 
the entrance hall on both these floors for exhibition purposes. The sections 
of anthropology, biology, and palaeontology have each one entire hall at 
their disposal and the remainder is shared by these sections with the sec- 
tions of geology, geography, and mineralogy. Back of the entrance hall, 
and occupying the first and second stories is a lecture hall (with gallery), 
capable of seating 500 persons. Above the lecture hall, and also two 
stories in height, is the library. No. 358 Frank street, about a quarter 
mile away from the Museum, has been obtained for extra storage of Museum 
specimens. The offices, laboratory, and most of the collections of the 
section of mineralogy are housed at 227 Sparks street, about a mile away 
from the Museum. Most of the publications of the Survey and Museum 
are at 347 Wellington street. The staff occupied with museum work at 
the end of 1926 comprised : 
Anthropology 
Chief of the division, Diamond Jenness; ethnologist, C. M. Barbeau; 
ethnologist (position vacant) ; associate physical anthropologist (position 
vacant); archaeologist, H. I. Smith; assistant archaeologist, W. J. Wintem- 
berg; artist, O. E. Prud’homme; museum assistant, J. D. Leechman; 
stenographers, G. St. Laurent and A. E. Perreault. 
Biology 
Chief of the division, R. M. Anderson; ornithologist, P. A. Taverner; 
chief botanist National Herbarium, M. O. Malte; chief taxidermist and 
herpetologist, C. L. Patch; collector-preparator specialist, C. H. Young; 
artist, C. E, Johnson; osteological preparator, Joseph Rochon; taxidermist, 
D. J. Blakely; museum assistants, Donald MacDonald and W. K. Bentley; 
herbarium assistant, M. C. Stewart; museum helper-tanner, J. E. Perron; 
stenographer, P. M. Hurlbert. 
Geology 
The staff of the geological division of the Geological Survey, com- 
prising twenty-one geologists, associate geologists, and assistant geologists. 
Mineralogy ( a division of the Geological Survey) 
Chief of the division, Eugene Poitevin; associate mineralogist, H. V. 
Ellsworth; associate mineralogist (position vacant); chemist (position 
vacant); mineralogical collector-preparator, A. T. McKinnon; museum 
assistant, F. H. B. Richardson; museum helper, F. D. Moore. 
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