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Accessions 
Important additions to the invertebrate palaeontological collections 
include the following: 
Fifty slides of foraminifera; topotype specimens from Vienna basin; 
forty-five lots of Tertiary mollusca from Texas; two hundred and sixty-one 
species of Tertiary gasteropods and pelecypods from Europe; a specimen 
of the pelecypod genus Radiolites from the Cretaceous of Nebraska; a series 
of Burgess shale fossils from British Columbia; some recent west coast 
brachiopods donated by C. L. Fenton; Conodonts from New York and 
Tennessee. 
Donations: 
O. N. Brown, 1 lot of Cretaceous pelecypods, Br£116 mines, Alta. 
J. Gervers, 2 lots of Tertiary plants from Kelowna, B.C. 
D. Hill, a small collection of fossils from near Madeleine river, Gaspe peninsula, Que. 
Col. F. E. Leech, 2 lots of Cretaceous fossils; one from Drumheller, Alberta, on Red 
Deer river, one from Francis lake, B.C. 
C. C. MacNeil, 2 specimens, petrified wood and pelecypods from the United States. 
A. E. Porsild, 6 lots of Pleistocene fossils from Baker Lake region west of Hudson bay. 
J. Dewey Soper, 1 lot of Ordovician fossils from Baffin island. 
S. M. Spidell, 4 lots of specimens from southern Saskatchewan. 
A. Stonier, ?Triassie pelecypods from Sibola mountains, B.C. 
Papers Published by Members of the Division 
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“The Intertidal Zone of the Wash, England." By E. M. Kindle, U.S. Nat. Research 
Council Reprint and Circular No. 92, pp. 1-21, 1930. 
“Notes on Some Canadian Mesozoic Faunas." By F. H. McLearn. Trans. Roy. Soc., 
Canada, 3rd ser., vol. 24, sec. 4, pp. 1-11, 1930. 
“The Gastroplites and Other Lower Cretaceous Faunas of the Northern Great Plains." 
By F. H. McLearn. Trans. Roy. Soc., Canada, 3rd ser., vol. 25, sec. 4, March, 1931. 
“Colonization in Quebec." By E. M. Kindle. Can. Geog. Jour., vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 416- 
439, 1930. 
“Miocene Gravels in Southern Saskatchewan." By C. M. Sternberg. Roy. Soc., Canada, 
3rd ser., vol. 241, sec. 4, pp. 29-30, 1930. 
DIVISION OF MINERALOGY (Geological Survey) 
Eugene Poitevin, Chief of the Division, reports: 
The exhibit of minerals in the National Museum is growing from year 
to year, but available space is so limited that only small additions can be 
made. 
Work in connexion with the preparation and sale of educational 
collections increases steadily from year to year and was especially heavy 
this year. On one occasion five hundred collections had to be prepared 
within one month; this involved securing, preparing, and labelling twenty 
thousand specimens. A considerable revenue is derived from the sale of 
collections and specimens. 
The systematic collection, which is still at the Mineralogical Labora- 
tory, 227 Sparks street, has been considerably increased, mostly through 
the efforts of the staff of the Geological Survey and by gifts from friends of 
the institution. 
