. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 149 ornithologists. If the museum had sufficient dupli- cates of a particular species in a particular plumage, then an exchange of skins might be made with another museum or individual, thus helping to build up the museum's collection. Just as stamp collectors may exchange their duplicates for ones they do not possess, so collectors of bird skins made exchanges. But in the case of a museum the responsibility of the curator of the ornithological section was consider- able. It required considerable knowledge and judge- ment, a
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 149 ornithologists. If the museum had sufficient dupli- cates of a particular species in a particular plumage, then an exchange of skins might be made with another museum or individual, thus helping to build up the museum's collection. Just as stamp collectors may exchange their duplicates for ones they do not possess, so collectors of bird skins made exchanges. But in the case of a museum the responsibility of the curator of the ornithological section was consider- able. It required considerable knowledge and judge- ment, as well as an efficient system of registering all birds received into the collection, and all birds sent to other institutions and individuals on loan, or on exchange. Tavemer started by keeping such a regis- ter entitled "Victoria Memorial Museum Register of Birds" which was kept from 1911.^^ Another humiliating thing for Tavemer was that he had to make all applications for leave time, and for attending a conference, through Anderson and not to the director of the museum. As a result Anderson could advise the director whether he felt that Taverner should be granted any request. Also Taverner's yearly reports on the work done by the ornithology section for the previous year for publica- tion in the Annual Report had to be submitted through Anderson. Because Taverner had been his own "boss" during the period 1911 through 1919 this was a particularly galling thing to have to do. As we have seen, Dewey Soper returned from his second arctic expedition in the fall of 1926. These two expeditions had been arranged by Anderson and Taverner jointly for the National Museum. Soper's. Joseph Dewey Soper upon return to Cape Dorset after surveys run to Nuwata across the interior of Foxe Peninsula and from there east to Ungmaluktuk Lake and south to Gordon Bay during March 1929. Reproduced courtesy of the University of Alberta Library Archives, The J. Dewey Soper Collection
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