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H. M. Raup, assisted by Mrs. Raup, made a botanical survey of the 
southeastern section of Wood Buffalo park, Alberta, and in connexion 
therewith, investigated the habits and range conditions of the buffalo 
that inhabit the region. They left Fort Smith, N.W.T., June 14 and spent 
one month in Pine Lake region, after which the party moved to Peace 
point, on Peace river, where one week was spent. Two weeks were spent 
at Hay camp on Slave river, and in the middle of August an investigation 
was made of the region bounded on the east by the Slave River flats be- 
tween Fitzgerald and LaButte, and on the west by the Salt Mountain 
escarpment. The party returned to Edmonton September 1. About 
6,600 herbarium specimens were collected during the season. 
Publications 
R. M. Anderson continued work as general editor of scientific reports 
of Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. The only part issued during the 
year was vol. XV, part A: Comparative Vocabulary of the Western Eskimo 
Dialects, by D. Jenness. Some progress was made in preparing indexes 
for some of the completed volumes of the series. R. M. Anderson's paper 
on “The Work of Bernhard Ilantzsch in Arctic Ornithology,” principally 
in Baffin island and northeastern Labrador, was published in The Auk, 
vol. XLV, No. 4, October, 1928, pages 450-466. A translation of Hant- 
zsch's “Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of Northeastern 
Labrador” (“Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Vogel welt des nordostlichsten 
Labradors,” Journal fur Ornithologie, vol. 56, pages 177-202 and 307-392) 
by R. M. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson was published serially in The 
Canadian Field Naturalist, Ottawa, beginning with vol. 42, No. 1, January, 
1928, and finishing with vol. 43, No. 3, March, 1929. The paper by Mr. 
Anderson on “The Fluctuations in the Population of Wild Mammals and 
the Relationship of this Fluctuation to Conservation,” read at Provincial- 
Dominion Game Conference, Ottawa, January 26, 1928, was published in 
The Canadian Field Naturalist, vol. 43, No. 8, November, 1928, pages 189- 
191. Several notes and book reviews were contributed to the same publi- 
cation. Mr. Anderson lectured on “Canada's Arctic Regions,” illustrated 
by motion pictures taken on 1928 Arctic Expedition, in Museum Lecture 
Series, January 12 and January 16, also to Young Men's meeting at 
Y.M.C.A., January 30. 
Other short notes have been published by members of the staff in 
periodicals, but no formal articles have been listed. 
M. O. Malte has continued intensive work on Arctic flora and other work 
in the herbarium, much of it being of an important revisionary character. 
During the year the plant collections were distributed as follows: 
Division of Botany, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa 10 
Dr. F. S. Blake, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. . 9 
Dr. M. Porsild, Godhavn, Greenland 233 
Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass 86 
An important paper on “Commercial Bent Grasses of the Genus 
Arctogrostis,” by M. O. Malte was published in the Annual Report of the 
National Museum of Canada, and a separate reprint of 500 copies of the 
same paper was issued by the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. The 
