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Mr. Jenness attended the annual meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science held at Pittsburgh during the last week of 
December. Mr. Leechman attended the annual convention of the American 
Association of Museums, May 30 to June 1. 
Exhibition Work 
The Eskimo igloo habitat group was finished; this is the first of what is 
hoped will be numerous natural-scale or reduced-scale reproductions of the 
inodes of life of the native people of Canada. The exhibit represents the 
interior of an igloo or snow house occupied by a family of Eskimos in 
process of carrying on their ordinary domestic affairs. 
Another exhibit explanatory of the educational services rendered by 
the National Museum has been prepared. So many inquiries have been 
received from teachers, teachers-in-training, and students in the course of 
their visits to the Museum that the need for a visual demonstration of these 
services has become evident. The exhibit is still in experimental form, 
but will be made a permanent feature and improved from time to time. 
An exhibit of Canadian anthropological specimens was loaned to 
Australia in September for a centennial celebration. Reference is made 
earlier in this report to the exhibit at the Central Canada Exhibition, 
Ottawa, in August. 
As the National Museum has no division of geology, being dependent 
upon the Geological Survey for assistance in this field, the officer in charge 
of exhibits has had to devote any spare time to reconstructing the exhibit 
of coal and coal products, which is being transferred from the entrance 
hall to the adjoining hall to the west. 
Mr. Barbeau organized three temporary exhibits of the traditional arts 
of Quebec, one of these being in the entrance hall of the Museum on the 
occasion of the visit of the delegates to the Jacques Cartier celebration in 
August, a second at the Art Gallery of Toronto in January, and a third 
in the National Museum in March, 1935. The first of these dealt chiefly 
with the simpler handicrafts and the latter two with architecture, wood- 
carving, silversmithing, and tapestry. 
Accessions to Museum 
Accessions to the collections were fewer than usual, comprising 63 
ethnological, 197 archaeological, 19 osteological, and 1 non-aboriginal, 
specimens, or a total of 280. Particular acknowledgment is due to Mr. 
Norman Wilson of the Hydrographic Survey, Ottawa, for a considerable 
collection of Eskimo skeletal remains which he collected on Richards island 
in the Mackenzie River delta. This collection has exceptional scientific 
value in the light of a new theory that the Mackenzie River natives, up to 
1910, were the purest survivors of a large section of the Eskimo race that 
spread many centuries ago from Alaska through the Arctic archipelago to 
Greenland. The details of the various specimens are as follows: 
From the Staff: 
Collected by Harlan I. Smith: 
Basswood and wild rice specimens, Peterborough county, Ont. 
Pottery fragments, Peterborough county, Ont. 
Stone adze, Peterborough county, Ont. 
