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Palaeontology (a division of the Geological Survey) 
Chief of the division, E. M. Kindle; invertebrate palceontologist, 
F. H. McLearn; palseobotanist, W. A. Bell; associate palseobotanist 
(position vacant); associate invertebrate palaeontologist (position vacant); 
associate vertebrate palaeontologist (position vacant) ; assistant inverte- 
brate palaeontologist, A. E. Wilson; assistant invertebrate palaeontologist 
(position vacant); collector-preparator specialist, C. M. Sternberg; artist, 
Arthur Miles; museum assistants, Joseph Skillen and E. F. Goodman; 
museum helper, J. E. Proulx; stenographer, T. A. Egan. 
This body is intimately connected with the Geological Survey. It is 
maintained with money supplied by Parliament to the Geological Survey. 
On December 1, 1920, a Directorship of the Victoria Memorial Museum 
was created and given to the late Dr. William Mclnnes, previously Director 
of the Geological Survey. The divisions of anthropology and biology were 
placed thereunder, and the other divisions remained under the Director of 
the Geological Survey. It afforded a greater amount of directional atten- 
tion to museum problems, but it also had the disadvantage of accentuating 
the distinction between the divisions of anthropology and biology, engaged 
solely with museum work, and the divisions of geology, mineralogy, and 
palaeontology, simultaneously occupied with Museum and Geological 
Survey work. It gave verisimilitude to a notion that the Museum was 
concerned with only two branches of natural science instead of all. This 
arrangement continued until April 1, 1926, when the Director of the 
Geological Survey was assigned the duties of both positions. The present 
arrangement has only a temporary aspect, however, for although the 
Director of the Survey performs the duties of Director of the Museum, he 
does so without emolument and the position of Director of the Museum 
continues vacant. The needs of the Museum for photography, draughting, 
and like services are supplied by the Geological Survey. Survey and 
Museum form part of the Department of Mines. 
Only one relationship exists with another Government department. 
The chief of the Entomological branch of the Department of Agriculture 
is Honorary Curator of Entomology in the Museum and charged with the 
preparation of an exhibit of insects. 
At the present time the section of anthropology has on exhibition a 
comprehensive collection representative of the aboriginal peoples of 
Canada. In biology there is a good exhibition of birds, but mammals, 
aquatic animals, and plants are represented by only a few specimens, and 
insects are not represented, the original Survey collection having been 
transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Geography is illustrated 
by a few relief models and photographs in different parts of the building. 
A good beginning has been made to represent economic geology, but other 
branches of geology are illustrated only by a few specimens in the hall of 
palaeontology. There is a large and fine mineral collection, the work of 
eighty years by Geological Survey officers, part of which is on exhibition 
in a hall in company with anthropological and biological material. Verte- 
brate and invertebrate fossils are displayed together in another hall, the 
collection of dinosaur remains from Alberta being exceptionally good. 
Field work is undertaken each year in all the main branches of natural 
science, for the purposes of scientific investigation and collecting of material 
for study and exhibition. Parties begin to leave for the field as early as 
