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the hearty and sympathetic co-operation of the seventeen speakers who 
contributed to the success of this educational service. Twelve of the 
lecturers were officials of Government departments, including — the 
Department of Trade and Commerce: Commercial Intelligence Service 
(1) and Dominion Bureau of Statistics (1); Department of the Interior: 
Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch (1), Forest Products Laboratories 
of Canada (1), Dominion Lands Branch (1); Post Office Department: 
Staff and Publicity Branch (1); Department of Mines: Geological Survey 
(4), Mines Branch (2). 
The courtesy of the following institutions and individuals in supplying 
motion picture films to supplement lectures is also acknowledged : Canadian 
Government Motion Picture Bureau, United States Bureau of Mines, 
Canadian Pacific railway, Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, Canadian 
National railways, Post Office Department, American Museum of Natural 
History, the Japanese Minister to Canada, McGill University, Castle 
Films (New York), Boy Scouts Association of Canada, and Department 
of the Interior. 
The assistance of the Canadian Boy Scouts Association (Ottawa 
district), in providing ushers at the children’s lectures has also been a 
great help to the Committee, as well as developing among the children the 
idea of self-government. 
Particular acknowledgment is made of the co-operation of the local 
newspapers in generously providing space for reports and other news of 
the various lectures. The increasing attendance and success of the lectures 
are due to a great extent to this encouraging assistance. 
The subjects of the lectures given in 1931-32, and the respective 
speakers, were as follows: 
First Series: 
Norway today, by F. H. Palmer, Canadian Government Trade Commissioner, Oslo, 
Norway. 
Clays and what we make from them, by John F. McMahon, Mines Branch, Depart- 
ment of Mines. 
The interest of geography, by Kenneth G. Chipman, Geological Survey, Department 
of Mines. 
An angler’s adventures in many lands, by Charles F. Wilkins, Northwest Territories 
and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior. 
The old Cariboo road, by J. C. Brady, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Department 
of Trade and Commerce. 
Wood uses, ancient and modern, by T. A. McElhanney, Superintendent, Forest 
Products Laboratories of Canada, Department of the Interior. 
Second Series: 
The eastern islands of the Caribbean, by Lester A. Glass, Trade Commissioner for the 
British West Indies (Eastern Group), Montreal. 
From ocean depths to the lofty skyscraper, by M. F. Goudge, B.A., B.Sc., Mines 
Branch, Department of Mines. 
The behaviour and effects of glaciers, by Terence T. Quirke, E.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., 
Professor of Geology, University of Illinois. 
Behind the Post Office screen, by Walter J. Turnbull, Staff and Publicity Branch, Post 
Office Department. 
Fossil man, by Loris S. Russell, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Geological Survey, Department 
of Mines. 
The land of gods and earthquakes, by Rev. P. P. W. Ziemann, B.A., B.D., Fourth 
Avenue Baptist Church. 
