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study and in art work during the year. A number of new lantern slides 
and replacements of damaged slides were coloured by C. E. Johnson and 
Miss W, K. Bentley for the educational loan collection of lantern slides. 
Exhibition Work 
Mr. C. L. Patch and his assistants placed fifty-one new specimens of 
mammals and birds on exhibition: mule deer, black-footed ferret, Cana- 
dian beaver; Nova Scotia varying hare, presented by Cyril K. Coldwell; 
silver fox, presented by F. D. Burkholder; brown thrasher, purple martin, 
pair of goldfinches, pair of red-eyed vireos, albino robin and house sparrow, 
golden-eye duck, oven-bird, Wilson's thrush, pair of marsh hawks with 
nest and eggs, pair of black terns, pair of water-thrushes, black-billed 
cuckoo, mourning dove, common tern, pair of Bohemian waxwings, broad- 
winged hawk, pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks, bobolink, rusty blackbird, 
white-crowned sparrow, five piping plovers, pair of Franklin's gulls, western 
grebe, northern phalarope, western willet, pair of blue-grey gnatcatchers, 
pair of sharp-tailed sparrows, sparrow hawk, yellow-bellied flycatcher, lark 
sparrow, scarlet tanager. 
A west coast Indian village, on a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot, was also 
completed by Clyde L. Patch, assisted by Audrey Patch and John M. 
Garland. With a painted background, it portrays four totem poles, fifteen 
Indian figures engaged in various activities, and a house 45 feet square 
of hewn timber. This model was shown in the Anthropological booth at 
the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa, and then placed on temporary 
display in the lobby of the museum building. 
Mr. Patch arranged a 28-foot by 10-foot booth at the Central Canada 
Exhibition to depict part of a beaver colony. 
D. J. Blakely prepared 413 birds and smaller mammals for the study 
collection. The number of large birds, particularly water birds, collected 
by field parties, is greatly increased by sending in the skins in a green salted 
state. The more commodious quarters in the Motor Building allowed the 
tanning tanks to be rebuilt and enlarged, and the large power-driven 
drum for cleaning and drying large tanned hides with hardwood sawdust 
was rebuilt and enlarged to handle hides as large as moose, elk, and buffalo. 
This allowed Mr. J. E, Perron to finish some delayed tanning of a number 
of large mammals, including elk, caribou, bears, lynxes, beavers, foxes, 
marmots, and mink. Mr. Perron spent the remainder of his time at 
osteological preparation, cleaning and bleaching about 250 mammal skulls 
and a considerable number of leg bones and other skeletal material. This 
is important work, as skeletal material is essential for study purposes, and 
cleaned skulls are necessary before certain mammal studies can be com- 
pleted. 
Claude E. Johnson accomplished the following work: 
Lantern slides coloured 50 
Line drawings 11 
Case labels, large letters (lettered and mounted) 12 
Colour plates 7 
Departmental office signs lettered 20 
Plaster moulds 4 
Plaster casts of dinosaur ( Chasmosaurus ) reduced size model.. 1 
Wax pieces, accessories to bird and insect exhibits and 
Chasmosaurus and Gorgosaurus model 1,192 
