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examined the large collections of Major Allan Brooks and of J. A. Munro, 
also checked up mammal notes with Major Brooks, and made preliminary 
arrangements for a series of coloured drawings, of big game and fur-bearing 
mammals of Canada, for a work on the mammals of Canada, which Mr. 
Anderson is preparing for the Department. Twenty-four plates of mam- 
mals were completed by Major Brooks later in the year. Mr. Anderson 
attended the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 
held at Philadelphia, October 21 to 25. While there he spent some time 
carefully examining and making notes on a rather large number of British 
Columbia mammals in the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
which include several types of mammals collected and described from 
southern British Columbia by the late Samuel N. Rhoads of Philadelphia, 
and interesting Canadian material from other collectors. 
P. A. Taverner, ornithologist, accompanied the Canadian Arctic 
Expedition of 1929 as naturalist on the S.S. Beothic to Greenland, the 
eastern islands of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, Hudson strait, and 
into Hudson bay to Chesterfield inlet. The Beothic left North Sydney, 
N.S., July 20, with Mr. George P. Mackenzie, Officer in Charge, making 
its first call at Godhavn, Greenland, on July 27. The ship then proceeded 
to Dundas Harbour, Devon island, and from thence to cape Sparbo, on 
the north coast of Devon island, where a well-known herd of musk-oxen 
is still found, and many excellent still and motion pictures of musk-oxen 
were secured. From Sparbo the ship proceeded to Craig Harbour, Elles- 
mere island, and thence to Buchanan bay, where supplies for the Bache 
Peninsula post were landed at cape Rutherford; turning south, stops were 
made at Etah and Nerke settlement, north Greenland; Dundas Harbour, 
Devon island; Ponds inlet, Clyde river, Pangnirtung, and Lake Harbour, 
all on Baffin island, and then proceeded into Hudson bay to Chesterfield 
inlet to land provisions and coal for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
detachment, and building material for the medical officer to be stationed 
there. On the return the Beothic stopped at Carys Swan Nest on Coats 
island; Lake Harbour, Baffin island; Acadia cove, Resolution island, 
where a direction-finding station is being established by the Department 
of Marine; touched at Port Burwell, on the south entrance to Hudson strait, 
and cruising down the Labrador coast, reached North Sydney again on 
September 3, after travelling 7,800 miles. 
While at Sydney, N.S., Mr. Taverner examined a colony of cormorants, 
which were not previously well known to ornithologists. 
Joseph Rochon, osteological preparator, left Ottawa on July 16 and 
proceeded to Trout lake and lake Pourri, Labelle county, Quebec, returning 
August 25 with 107 specimens of small mammals. 
Clyde L. Patch, chief taxidermist and herpetologist, D. Blakely, 
taxidermist, and Claude E. Johnson, artist, did some field work in Ottawa 
district, principally collecting local material to fill out the collections and 
obtaining accessories for habitat group work. 
Charles H. Young, senior collector-preparator, was unable to continue 
field work this year on account of poor health, but was able to do Museum 
cataloguing and other office work. 
