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Preparatory Work 
Work of C. L. Patch, Chief Taxidermist and Herpetologist; D. Blakely, 
Taxidermist; and J. E. Perron, Museum-helper tanner : 
Bird and smaller mammal skins prepared for study collections . 212 
Larger mammal skins tanned (caribou, polar bear, grizzly 
bear, black bear, fox, seal, beaver, deer, elk, mountain 
sheep, antelope, cougar) 51 
Mammals and birds prepared for exhibition purposes 92 
Specimens loaned to schools for educational purposes 279 
The specimens in greatest demand were the muskrat, beaver, hare, 
red squirrel, oriole, bluebird, red-winged blackbird, red-headed woodpecker, 
robin, frog, and toad. 
Work of Claude E. Johnson, Artist of the division: 
Retouched or coloured photographs. 27 
Slides (two special) 2 
Colour plates 9 
Plaster moulds 36 
Wax and celluloid pieces (cast and coloured) 1,630 
Lettering (including special enlarged shield for Metallurgical 
Congress) 3 
Map models (coloured on celluloid) 2 
Completed for exhibition, habitat groups: Wilson thrush, spotted sandpiper, dow- 
itcher. 
Miscellaneous details in mammal habitat groups of : black-tailed prairie-dog, Canadian 
otter, European hare (introduced and acclimated in Ontario). 
Coloured feet and beaks: whistling swan, common cormorant, Kumlien gull, duck 
hawk and young, green-winged teal, 2 puffins, 1 murre. 
12 wall tints prepared for lecture hall and for Dr. Collins, some repairs on exhibition 
groups, etc. 
Accessions 
Accessions to the Biological Collections: 
Mammals received and catalogued 2,096 
Birds received and catalogued 346 
Reptiles and amphibians received and catalogued 285 
Birds’ eggs (sets) and nests 2 
2,727 
Accessions of Mammals: 
By members of staff: 
Hamilton M. Laing (southern British Columbia) 490 
Charles H. Young (southern British Columbia) 326 
J. Dewey Soper (southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Mani- 
toba) 639 
R. M. Anderson (northern Alberta) 11 
Jos. Rochon (southern Quebec) 141 
C. L. Patch (Quebec) 2 
1,609 
By gift, outside of collections made by members of staff: 
Canadian National Parks Branch, Department of the Interior, 2 marten skins 
(Jasper park); 1 skeleton and 1 skull of mule deer (Water ton Lakes park); 
1 skeleton, incomplete, Rocky Mountain cougar, 1 skeleton black bear, 1 
skull black bear (Jasper park); 6 skulls bighorn sheep (Waterton Lakes 
park); 1 skin and skull of black bear (Waterton Lakes park); 1 skin of Rocky 
Mountain marten (Jasper park); 1 mounted head of plains buffalo, “Sir 
Donald,” the last of the wild plains buffalo in Canada, died April 6, 1909, 
