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a position of honorary curator of entomology in the Museum. Already 
he has taken the first steps towards having exhibits prepared of the more 
important insects found in Canada and their influence upon agriculture 
and other human industrial activities. Likewise Mr. E. H. Finlayson and 
Mr. D. R. Cameron, Director and Associate Director of the Forestry 
Branch, Department of the Interior, have agreed to assist the Museum 
in preparing exhibits of the trees and forest products of Canada, and 
Air. T. A. McElhanney, of the Forestry Branch, already has this work 
in charge. 
A remarkably fine opportunity exists in Canada, a pioneer country 
of varied topography and climate, to develop museum collections and 
displays of the geographical features and their influence upon transporta- 
tion and other human activities. A modest beginning has been made 
by using the corridor to the offices of the Topographical Division of the 
Geological Survey, on the fourth floor, for the display of enlarged photo- 
graphs, relief models, and other exhibition material. 
NEED FOR ENLARGED QUARTERS 
When the additional furnishings and exhibits above mentioned are 
installed the available exhibition halls will be full, and yet provision will 
have then been made for less than half of the branches of natural history 
to which the Museum gives attention. This lack of space was mentioned 
in last year's report, and deserves further reference here. It was pointed 
out that the Victoria Memorial Museum building, originally intended as a 
home for the Geological Survey and Museum, is occupied also by the 
Administrative part of the Department of Mines, the Dominion Fuel 
Board, and the National Art Gallery. In consequence, out of a total of 
twelve large halls and two smaller ones, only four large halls and the two 
smaller ones are now available for museum exhibits. Only in the case of 
anthropology is it possible to develop permanent and comprehensive 
exhibits, and an excellent display in this division is being made. The 
Division of Biology, which should have at least five and a half large halls, 
has one and a half. About one-third of this space is being used for a 
permanent exhibit of birds, which is already an attractive and instructive 
feature. In the remaining two-thirds there are crowded mere samples of 
what should be done to illustrate the fur-bearing and other mammals of 
Canada, the plants, trees and forest products, insects and their relations to 
agriculture and other industries, fishes and other aquatic animals, reptiles, 
and batrachia. In another hall are exhibited together the invertebrate 
fossils and the vertebrates — dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, 
which are so richly represented in Canada and of which this Museum has 
an exceptionally fine collection. Two halls are required for the purpose 
and until they can be obtained only a temporary, huddled display can be 
made. No hall is available for display of rocks, minerals, ores, and the 
products of the mineral industry, and these are being crowded into cor- 
ridors and odd corners. 
If the entire building were available for the Survey and Museum the 
requirements for exhibition purposes would be largely satisfied, but not 
the requirements for offices, laboratories, and storage of specimens. A 
museum requires as much room for reserve material and workshops as it 
does for public display, and the Geological Survey requires chemical, 
