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The collections of North American Indian specimens studied by Mr. 
Barbeau in France and England are those of the Trocadero Museum, of 
Paris; the Louvre (Mus£e de la Marine); the Municipal Museum of Ver- 
sailles; the Jardin-des-Plantes; the British Museum; the Pitt-Rivers, at 
Oxford; and two local museums at Warwick. By request, Mr. Barbeau 
sorted out the whole American collections of the Trocadero and Versailles 
museum and re-catalogued them. The collection of the Trocadero is 
particularly important; it contains a large number of the most ancient 
specimens of North American handicrafts in existence. The bulk of this 
collection, like that of Versailles, was made in New France and Louisiana 
for the Dauphin of France (under Louis XIV), about the middle of the 
eighteenth century. Some of the specimens from the British Museum 
and the Pitt-Rivers Museum go back to the period of discovery by the 
early circumnavigators. Valuable comparative knowledge was obtained 
from the study of these collections, particularly with regard to the origin 
and evolution of native American handicrafts. 
The Ampere collection of folk songs of France at the Biblioth6que 
Nationale was also studied and the parallels of French-Canadian folk 
songs were noted. 
Mr. Barbeau’s activities at the museum, after the month of June, 
were divided between routine work and the preparation of his materials 
for monographs on the “Tsimsyan Indians of the Northwest Coast”. 
Much time was given to linguistic work in connexion with the three 
dialects of the Tsimsyan; and the work of sorting out bulky materials 
in lexicon form is still proceeding. The preparation of a large monograph 
on “The Eagle Phratry — Its Recent Growth Among the Tsimsyan” is 
under way. This monograph is meant to be the first instalment of what 
will cover the complete social structure of the Tsimsyans. 
A book of French Canadian folk songs, comprising sixty numbers, 
is nearly completed and should be ready for the publisher within two 
months. The demand for books of this kind in French has been insistent 
for some years and a plan for publication is now being discussed with the 
Quebec government. 
Mr. H. I. Smith worked on the organization of accumulated data, 
with bibliographies, on the following subjects: prehistoric use in Canada of 
native fruits and seeds; cave dwellings in Canada; mammal and serpent 
forms in prehistoric Canadian art; archaeological human skeletal remains 
found in Canada; archaeological sites in British Columbia in the area from 
cape Mudge southward to the International Boundary; Pontiac county, 
Quebec; Brant, Peel, and Lincoln counties, Ontario. He also partly arranged 
the bibliographies of the archaeology of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, 
and Newfoundland. 
Mr. Smith also matched the negative material for three motion 
pictures, wrote the titles for three, and worked on plans for a motion 
picture demonstrating the activities of the National Museum and the 
Geological Survey. 
Mr. W. J. Wintemberg completed the writing of his report on the 
culture of the Lawson village site. A few days were spent in the valleys 
