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Exhibition work continues to be hampered more and more by lack of 
space. The halls available for exhibition are overcrowded and are of 
necessity being used as storehouses for surplus material, a condition that 
detracts greatly from their attractiveness and an effective display. 
This congested state is all the more deplorable because of the difficulty 
of finding accommodation for donations from private benefactors of the 
Museum. During the fiscal year Mr. Harry Snyder, of Montreal, has 
offered an exceptionally fine group of wood bison from Great Slave lake, 
which he collected himself and intends to have mounted and set up in its 
natural environment at his own expense — altogether a munificent gift. 
There appears to be a steady increase in the number of such friends 
of the Museum. Among others whose gifts during the year deserve special 
mention are the Falconbridge Nickel Mines, Limited, for a large quantity 
of ore specimens for educational collections, and the International Nickel 
Company of Canada, Limited, for a collection of pure nickel coins from the 
various countries of the world. 
Where full-size groups of specimens in their natural environment 
(habitat groups) are impracticable because of their size and cost, it is 
possible to obtain a similar life-like and instructive representation by 
making the same groups in miniature. L. S. Russell and C. E. Johnson 
have completed a miniature group of two dinosaurs in a Cretaceous land- 
scape setting. C. L. Patch has begun work upon another, which is designed 
to represent a llaida Indian village on Queen Charlotte islands, with the 
inhabitants engaged in the typical activities of such a community. 
The walls alone of the exhibition halls still afford space for permanent 
exhibition. Miss W. K. Bentley has continued making copies and original 
portraits in oils of distinguished Canadian naturalists. To those men- 
tioned in last year’s report (page 2) she has added another, Dr. George 
Mercer Dawson, Director of the Geological Survey, Canada, from 1895 to 
1900, and generally regarded as the father of Canadian anthropology. She 
is engaged upon two others, one of Sir Daniel Wilson, once President of the 
University of Toronto, and a distinguished anthropologist, the other of 
Professor Arthur P. Coleman, professor-emeritus of the Department of 
Geology, University of Toronto, and dean of Canadian geologists. The 
Museum is indebted to President Cody of the University of Toronto for 
loan of the original paintings, by Sir James Reid and Mr. J. W. L. Forster, 
respectively. C. E. Johnson has also furthered the mural display by colour- 
ing six more enlargements of photographs of characteristic Canadian 
scenes. 
Although permanent exhibition work is restricted, advantage has been 
taken of opportunities to increase the number of special temporary exhibi- 
tions. During August, 1934, the Museum again had a large exhibit at the 
Central Canada Exhibition at Ottawa, the success of which was due to Clyde 
Patch, J. A. La Rocque, D. A. Nichols, J. R. Marshall, and other members 
of the staff. C. M. Barbeau organized three special exhibitions of the 
traditional arts of Quebec, two at Ottawa and one in Toronto in con- 
junction with the Toronto Art Gallery. The entrance hall of the Museum 
has been used, also, for three temporary exhibits of materials loaned to the 
Museum. One of these was a collection of enlarged photographs illustrative 
of aeronautical enterprise in the British Empire, loaned by the National 
