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Folk-Lore 
Mr. Barbeau reports that the folk-lore data collected for the Museum 
during the past year stand as follows. The voluminous data collected during 
the summer investigations in Quebec, on the early French colonial handi- 
crafts and school of architecture and sculpture, are mentioned elsewhere 
in the annual report. 
French 
The Barbeau (Marius ) Collection: 
Voluminous notes from early records on sculpture, architecture, handicrafts, etc. 
375 folk-song texts 
53 folk-tales and anecdotes 
230 photographs 
6 specimens donated to the Museum 
The Lambert ( Adelard ) Collection: 
56 song-texts with phonograph records 
3 folk-tales 
The Leechman (Douglas) Collection: 
20 violin dance tunes of Quebec, recorded on the phonograph at the Museum 
Other Collections: 
Abb6 Georges C6t6, 39 photographs 
Mile. M. L. Laurin, 8 photographs, also MS. notes on potters and the ancient 
church of Lorette 
Judge Pouliot, 3 photographs 
Linsey Crossley, 4 photographs 
R6gis Roy, 1 folk-tale 
L.-P. Geoffrior, 1 song text 
W. J. Wintemberg, 1 song-text 
Mrs. J. Mount-Ducket t, 1 song-text 
A. Y. Jackson, 1 homespun specimen 
DIVISION OF BIOLOGY 
K. M. Anderson, Chief of the Division, reports: 
Field Work 
R. M. Anderson in April, 1928, visited the Royal Ontario Museum of 
Zoology, Toronto; the United States National Museum, Washington; 
and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and made 
extended notes on specimens of Canadian mammals as well as of methods 
of arranging and exhibiting zoological and botanical specimens. While in 
Washington, he attended the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American 
Society of Mammalogists, April 10 to 14, and presented an illustrated 
paper on “The Bowhead Whale in the Western Arctic.” He left Ottawa 
again July 14 to join the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1928 as naturalist. 
The expedition, under direction of Mr. George P. Mackenzie, Northwest 
Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, sailed from 
North Sydney, N.S., July 19, on S.S. Beothic, passing through the strait 
of Belle Isle, and proceeding directly to Godhavn, Disko island, Greenland, 
arriving July 26. After a short visit, the Beothic crossed Baffin bay to 
