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Among the visitors to the division during the past year were Dr. 
Warren K. Moorehead, of Andover, Mass., who made a detailed study of 
its collections of stone axes and adzes; Mr. N. C. Nelson, archaeologist at 
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, who made a rapid 
survey of the Museum’s archaeological collections; Mr. H. B. Collins, 
assistant archaeologist of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, who 
dropped in for a day when returning from field work in Alaska to examine 
the division’s collections from Bering strait; and Dr. E. M. Box, of Toronto, 
who investigated the teeth in all the Indian and Eskimo crania to determine 
the frequency and character of their dental diseases. 
The number of loans to Normal School students has been slightly less 
than in former years, but these and other students still make considerable 
use of the division’s collections. In September the Windsor high school 
received a small loan of Indian specimens. In October a loan was made 
through the Department of Trade and Commerce to the Imperial Institute, 
of a representative collection of Indian specimens from the whole of Canada, 
which is now being exhibited for an extended period at the Imperial Insti- 
tute, London, England; and between October and January the Canadian 
National railways received on loan from the division five collections of 
specimens illustrating Indian art, music, games, weapons, and embroidery, 
for exhibition throughout Canada and a part of the United States. The 
preparation of these loans has required the expenditure of much time, but 
they should make the Museum better known throughout the country and 
react to its ultimate benefit. 
Museum Work 
A complete series of exhibits from the Plains’ and Plateau tribes of 
Canada was installed during the year in the new upright cases allocated to 
the east Anthropological Hall. Many of these specimens, which occupy 
sixteen panels in the cases, or 1,152 square feet, have never before been 
displayed. Mr. Leechman is now working on a series of synoptic exhibits 
for the remaining upright cases; he has an exhibit of Indian cradles ready 
for installation, and is assembling a series of musical instruments. Twenty- 
one new table cases acquired for the same hall have been arranged around 
the walls; they will be devoted to an exhibition of Canadian archaeological 
specimens. One large upright case and four table cases, near the entrance 
to the hall, are being reserved for the palaeolithic specimens from the Old 
World gathered by Dr. H. M. Ami. During the winter Dr. Ami placed 
in the museum’s charge a cast of the magnificent bison figures discovered 
a few years ago at Tuc d’Audoubert in France, and the division is arrang- 
ing to exhibit it in a special case borrowed from the Biological Division. 
Ultimately, however, it hopes to make this cast the central feature of a 
habitat group depicting the artistic achievements of man during the last 
centuries of the Ice age. 
Specimens 
The number of specimens obtained during the fiscal year, mainly from 
the field staff, totalled 1,720: 
Ethnological 517 
Osteological 3 
Archaeological 1 , 200 
