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ungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin , 1913, 
pp. 141-160. With the assistance of Mrs. Anderson there was also prepared 
for the Museum Library a translation of Dr. Erich Hesse’s publication of 
Hantzsch’s ornithological journal and critical studies of the Baffin Island 
birds brought back, under the title “Bernhard Hantzschs ornithologische 
Ausbeute in Baffinland” (“Bernhard Hantzsch’s Ornithological Results in 
Baffin Island”), Journal fur Ornithologie, vol. 63, No. 2, 1915, pp. 137-228; 
also “Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Vogelwelt des nordostlichsten Labradors” 
(“Contribution to the Knowledge of the Avifauna of Northeastern Lab- 
rador”), by Bernhard Hantzsch, ibid., vol. 56, pp. 177-202 and 307-393. 
The publication of the latter paper was begun in The Canadian Field- 
Naturalist, Ottawa, vol. 42, Nos. 1, 2, and 4, and following numbers, as an 
important contribution to Canadian ornithology. Thanks are due to the 
Library of the University of Toronto for the loan of the original of the 
copy of Sitzungsber. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, and to the Emma Shearer 
Wood Library of Ornithology, McGill University Library, Montreal, for 
loan of volumes of Journ . fui Ornithologie. Of further assistance in the 
studies on Baffin island, another very valuable paper was “Bernhard 
Hantzsch und seine letzte Forschungsreise in Baffinland” (“Bernhard 
Hantzsch and His Last Scientific Expedition to Baffin Island”), Mitteil- 
ungen des Vereins fur Erdkunde zu Dresden (Communications of the 
Geographical Society of Dresden), Band II, Heft 7, Abhandlungen 5, 
1913, pp. 669-716, by Dr. M. Rosenmuller and Dr. 0. Israel. The latter 
publication appeared to be unavailable in Canada, and the Library of 
Congress at Washington was kind enough to loan a copy to the Museum 
library. A translation of the latter paper is being printed by the North- 
west Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, in con- 
nexion with an account of work by others in Baffin island. In making an 
extended study of the natural history literature of the eastern Arctic 
region, Mr. Anderson found that much valuable and interesting material 
had been generally overlooked and was virtually unavailable to most 
students on account of not being printed in English, and in many cases 
difficult to obtain in this country. He prepared a paper for the Wash- 
ington meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, November 16, 
1927, on “The Work of Bernhard Hantzsch in Arctic Ornithology,” which 
was welcomed as a contribution to the literary side of the science, and 
was solicited for publication in The Auk in 1928. 
P. A. Taverner contributed an important paper to The Auk, vol. 
44, No. 2, April, 1927, pp. 217-228, entitled “Some Recent Canadian 
Records.” In this paper he recorded a number of Canadian bird occur- 
rences that have not been formally recorded, as well as a few others that 
are not generally available for reference, the whole being to some extent 
supplementary to his “Birds of Eastern Canada” (1922), and “Birds of 
Western Canada” (1926). Other members of the staff have contributed 
brief notes and reviews of natural history literature to periodicals, but 
no formal articles have been listed. 
A report on Marine Algae, being Part B, Report of the Canadian Arctic 
Expedition, 1913-18, was issued November 4, 1927, by the Department, 
under the supervision of R. M. Anderson, general editor of reports of this 
expedition. It comprised sections on “Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean 
Algse,” by the late Frank Shipley Collins; “Calcareous Algae,” by Mme. 
Paul Lemoine, of the Museum of Natural History, Paris; and “Hudson 
