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Folk-Lore 
The Lemieux ( J.-M. ) Collection: 
50 song texts from Gaspe county, Que. 
The Traquair ( Ramsay ) Collection: 
277 photographs of Quebec sculpture, architecture, and manual arts. 
The CSte (Rev. Georges) Collection: 
37 photographs of arcliitecture, sculpture, and silversmith's work. 
Other Collections: 
E. Z. Massicotte, 2 song texts. 
Mile. Georgiana Leblond, 18 traditional designs for hooked rugs. 
Miss Harriet Wallace, 3 photographs of artifacts. 
Madame Mariel R. Delamarre, 5 photographs of old houses. 
DIVISION OF BIOLOGY 
R. M. Anderson, Chief of the Division, reports: 
Field Work 
R. M. Anderson attended the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Ameri- 
can Society of Mamrnalogists held April 10 to 13, 1929, in the Museum of 
Zoology, University Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
Mr. Anderson gave an address on “Mammal Life in the Eastern Canadian 
Arctic,” illustrated by slides and motion pictures, and also by request 
presented a paper, illustrated by slides and specimens, by Dr. Seymour 
Hadwen, Head of the Department of Veterinary Science, University of 
Saskatchewan, on “Colour Changes of Lepus americanus and other 
Animals.” The latter paper was subsequently published in The Canadian 
Journal of Research, vol. I, No. 2, July, 1929, pp. 189-200, and the speci- 
mens and a set of slides deposited in the National Museum. Mr. Anderson 
also investigated the new University Museum, opened in 1929, which 
embodies the latest methods of combining scientific research with university 
education. 
Mr. Anderson also planned and carried out with Mr. Laing and Mr. 
Elgin Hall an extensive campaign of field work in southern British Columbia 
during the season of 1929, in continuation of a biological reconnaissance of 
the region in the vicinity of the International Boundary between the 
province of British Columbia and the states of Washington, Idaho, and 
Montana. This region is of particular biological interest because of the 
extraordinary and sharply defined variety of topographical and climatic 
conditions that occur from west to east, and because it differs also in these 
respects from the country to the north and these differences are reflected 
in the fauna and flora. Although the principal part of this work consisted 
in making collections of mammals and birds, other forms of life were 
studied and collected whenever practicable, and in addition to large system- 
atic series of the different species, material was collected for several habitat 
groups for the exhibition halls of the Museum. Full and careful notes 
were kept on the habits and range of species, their abundance and economic 
relations, as pests to agriculture and stockraising interests, food and fur 
value, etc., as well as other information that has an authentic historical 
value bearing upon the life history and conservation of these animals. 
