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Second Series : Concluded. 
Some local fishes — their habits and habitats, by N. J. Atkinson, M.Sc., Lucerne-in- 
Quebec Community Association, Limited. 
Water, nature’s sculptor, by H. C. Gunning, B.A., Sc., Ph.D., Geological Survey, 
Department of Mines. 
The fruits we eat and where they come from, by Ivarl B. Conger, President of the 
Eastern Canada Fruit and Vegetable Jobbers Association. 
Mystery island — national domain of Canadian Boy Scouts, by Noulan Cauchon, 
Chairman and Technical Adviser, Ottawa Town Planning Commission; Vice- 
President, Ottawa District, Canadian Boy Scouts Association. 
The changing Arctic, by Richard Finnie, Dominion Lands Branch, Department of 
the Interior. 
Up to the present lectures arranged by the Lecture Committee have 
been given only in Ottawa, except where lecturers may have received 
invitations from educational societies or clubs outside the city to repeat 
lectures given at the Museum. The possibility of extending the benefits 
of the lectures to other parts of Canada has been studied by the Lecture 
Committee, but the inauguration of any comprehensive plan of distribution 
will have to be delayed until facilities for undertaking this important 
work are available. 
A committee consisting of Harlan I. Smith (Chairman), M. E. Wilson, 
Clyde L. Patch, and G. W. Richardson (Secretary), is responsible for 
arranging the lectures and attending to the work involved. 
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY 
The activities of the staff were limited almost wholly to office work. 
Mr. Diamond Jenness organized the anthropological program of the 
Pacific Science Congress, which was scheduled to meet in Vancouver in 
May, 1932, but which has now been postponed. Besides drawing up a 
list of subjects to be discussed at the meeting and soliciting relevant 
papers from scientists in both the New and the Old Worlds, he assembled 
and edited a volume of papers, by nine authors besides himself, on the 
“Origin and Antiquity of the American Aborigines”, which the National 
Research Council has undertaken to publish and present to delegates 
attending the congress. For the National Museum, Mr. Jenness completed 
a comprehensive textbook on the “Indians of Canada”, and contributed 
an article on “Native Indian Art and Industries” which was distributed 
by the Department of Immigration and Colonization to the press of Great 
Britain. He published two other articles during the year, “Wild Rice” 
in the Canadian Geographical Journal, and “Indian Prehistory as Revealed 
by Archaeology”, in the new Quarterly of the University of Toronto; 
and he read a paper on the Sekani Indians of British Columbia at the 
meeting of the Royal Society of Canada. With the assistance of Mr. 
Leeehman, he overhauled, piece by piece, about half the immense collection 
of European archaeological material that the estate of the late Dr. H. M. 
Ami entrusted to the National Museum for distribution to Canadian 
museums and universities. Towards the end of the year he investigated 
the population possibilities of the Dominion and prepared a lengthy 
paper on the subject. 
During April, May, and part of June, Mr. C. M. Barbeau studied 
several old collections of Indian handicrafts in the museums of France 
and England. 
