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and Curator of Insects in the National Museum. Mr. C. E. Johnson and 
Mr. Chas. H. Young of the museum staff assisted in the entomological 
exhibit work by remounting and making accessories for six habitat cases of 
large insects showing the food plants, and work is progressing on several 
more cases of the same type. 
Lectures 
The Place of Systematic Zoology in Study of Wild Life Fluctuations. By R. M. 
Anderson. At Canadian Biological Conference, Matamek, Saguenay county, Que. 
Mammal Life of Ontario. By R. M. Anderson. Carleton East and Carleton West 
Teachers’ Institutes, at National Museum of Canada. 
The Gannets of Bonaventure. By Clyde L. Patch. Hull Intermediate School, 
Hull, Que. 
Amphibians and Reptiles. By Clyde L. Patch. The Province of Quebec Society 
for the Protection of Birds, Montreal, Que. 
Accessions to Museum 
Zoological Collections 
Mammals received and catalogued 179 
Birds received and catalogued 169 
Amphibians and reptiles received and catalogued 265 
Insects received and catalogued 502 
Nests and eggs received and catalogued 5 
Mammals 
By Members of Staff 96 
By Gift S3 
Stuart Criddle, Treesbank, Man. 1 skin and skull of pocket gopher (Thomomys 
t. talpoides ), melanistic specimen. 
W. H. Bryenton, Herb lake, Man., 1 skin and skull of red-backed mouse. 
E. G. White, Ottawa, 1 head of northern white-tailed deer, male, in the flesh. 
Mrs. S. K. Squires, Fredericton, N.B., 1 white-footed mouse, in the flesh. 
Dr. R. E. DeLury, Ottawa, 1 varying hare, 1 red squirrel, and 2 black squirrels, 
in the flesh. 
Arthur D. Pope, Ottawa, 6 red squirrels, juvenile, for mounted family group. 
Miss Margaret White, Ottawa, 1 muskrat, in the flesh, taken on streets of Ottawa. 
Dr. A. A. Kingscote, Guelph, Ont., 1 skin and skull of silver fox, from experi- 
mental station. 
J. A. Munrm Okanagan Landing, B.C., 1 skull of bighorn sheep, from Vaseux 
lake, B.C. 
Geo. H. Hammond, Entomological Branch, Dept, of Agriculture, White Grub 
Laboratory, Clarenceville, Que., 1 short-tailed shrew. 
H. M. Laing, Comox, B.C., 2 skulls of northwestern cougar, 1 skeleton of Vancouver 
Island marten. 
Hoyes Lloyd, Ottawa, 1 eastern chipmunk, in the flesh. 
H. D. Merrill, Prince Albert, Sask,, 1 “hunter’s skin” of muskrat, near albino, 
from Foster lakes, northern Saskatchewan. 
R. M. Anderson, Ottawa, 1 skin and skull of Rhoads red-backed mouse, Clcthrio- 
nomys gapperi rhoadsii (Stone), topotype, taken at Mare Run, May’s Landing, 
New Jersey, May 16, 1931, collected and prepared by A. H. Howell, Francis 
Harper, and E. A. Preble. 
J. M. Swaine, Associate Dominion Entomologist, 1 long-tailed shrew (Sores. : 
cinereus ), from Cascapedia river, Que. 
R. T. D. Wickenden, Ottawa, skins and skulls of 3 black-tailed prairie-dogs 
(Cynomys ludovicianus), 1 Richardson ground squirrel, 1 white-footed 
mouse, from Saskatchewan; 1 red squirrel from Ottawa district. 
