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same museum report contained an annotated article on “Birds of the 
Belvedere Region, Northern Alberta,” by P. A. Taverner. J. D. Soper’s 
report, “A Faunal Investigation of Southern Baffin Island,” Bulletin 
No. 53, Biological Series No. 15, was published. 
Museum Work 
Some progress has been made in installing biological exhibits in the 
Museum halls. A few habital groups of birds and small mammals have 
been prepared, and some old single specimens remounted. Little new work 
has been done in the exhibition of large specimens on account of lack of 
space. Arrangements have been made with the Forestry Branch, Depart- 
ment of the Interior, to make a beginning of exhibition of certain forest 
trees of Canada, as well as some of the important forestry products. 
The Curator of Insects, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, 
is also taking preliminary steps to install some new entomological exhibits. 
As a result of field work, by members of the staff, considerable addi- 
tions have been made to the study collections, and much material obtained 
suitable for subsequent mounting. 
The Canadian National Parks Branch, through the Commissioner of 
Parks, Mr. J. B. Harkin, has kindly continued to send in many specimens 
of large game predatory and fur-bearing mammals from the various 
national parks, and the members of various detachments of the Royal 
Canadian Mounted Police, through the Commissioner, Colonel Cortlandt 
Starnes, have continued to send in valuable material from the Far North. 
An important part of the work of the Museum, which is being carried 
on almost continuously, is identifying and systematically arranging the 
collections in botany and zoology which are coming in and making the data 
obtained from field work and collections available for reference, and in the 
preparation of reports on the fauna and flora of the country. The function 
of a scientific museum as a storage repository of scientific material of public 
interest and as a clearing house for scientific data is as important as its 
exhibitions for popular interest and education. 
Accessions 
Accessions to the Zoological Collections: 
Mammals received and catalogued 748 
Birds received and catalogued 686 
Amphibians and reptiles received and catalogued 114 
Mammals: 
By members of staff: 
H. M. Laing, 455 mammals from southern British Columbia. 
P. A. Taverner and C. G. Harrold, 62 small mammals from expedition to north 
shore of gulf of St. Lawrence. 
R. M. Anderson, 19 mammals, Greenland and eastern Arctic archipelago. 
Jos. Rochon, 111 small mammals, from Lacoste, Quebec. 
