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on August 12, 1933, before reaching Ottawa, His collections made during 
the summer were shipped out from Churchill. 
On the invitation of the Acting Director of the National Museum, 
Professor M. L. Fernald, of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Mass., a leading authority on the plants of eastern Canada, 
Newfoundland, and northern Ungava, came to Ottawa, and helped to make 
a survey of Mr, Malte’s unpublished manuscripts and scientific notes. It 
was decided that some of the* manuscript, on account of descriptions of 
nine new species, one new variety, and seven new combinations in the 
genera Antennaria, Potentilla , Castilleja, Armeria, and Vaccinium, deserved 
early publication. These were arranged by Professor Fernald, under the 
titles “ Antennaria of Arctic America ” and “ Critical Notes on Plants of 
Arctic America ”, and are now in press in Rhodora Journal of the New 
England Botanical Club. 
Plants received on account of exchange 600 
U.S, National Museum, Washington, D.C 102 
New York Botanical Garden, New York, N.Y 396 
Dr. B. Floderus, Botanical Div., Royal Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. . . 102 
Plants received as donations 920 
Dr. John Dearness, London, Ont 1 
Marcel Raymond, St. Johns, Quebec 2 
Staff Sergt. J. E. F, Wight, R.C.M.P., Chesterfield inlet, N.W.T 1 
Mr. F. A. Kerr, Ottawa, Ontario 96 
Mr. H. S. Bostock, Ottawa, Ontario , 30 
Prof. N. C. Fassett, Madison, Wisconsin 25 
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass 765 
Plants distributed on account of exchange... 1,359 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass 1,359 
DIVISION OF PALAEONTOLOGY (Geological Survey) 
E. M. Kindle, Chief of Division, reports: 
During the year plans for the publication of the Illustrated Card 
Catalogue of North American Devonian fossils were completed. The 
essential features of this project, which is being carried out through the 
co-operative work of a number of North American palaeontologists, were 
outlined in the report of this division for 1932. The Wagner Free Institute 
of Science of Philadelphia, which has undertaken to publish the several 
units as they are completed, announces the publication of the first unit, 
which will cover the Devonian ammonoids, in the autumn of 1934. Professor 
B. F. Howell in announcing the early publication of the first section of this 
work states : 1 
u The preparation of this illustrated card catalogue and bibliographic index is one 
of the most ambitious pieces of work ever undertaken by palaeontologists of any con- 
tinent. The catalogue and index will be historic landmarks on the highway of palaeon- 
tological progress, and will, it is hoped, set the standard for future work of the same 
sort.” 
1 Howell, B. F. : “An Illustrated Card Catalogue of North American Fossils”, Bull. Wagner Free 
Inst. Sci,, vol. 9, No. 1, p. 108 (1934). 
