June 10 - Victoria Went to the Provincial Museum at once, but found that both F. Kermodé and E. M. Anderson are way in the field. Was unable to get into whatever study collections there might be, tho everything I expected to see was on exhibition, mounted. Even birds' eggs, as well as types, were out in the light, and the aged and decrepit guard didn't know how to draw the blinds to keep the afternoon sunshine from striking the specimens directly. Practically saw # everything in sight was taken in British Columbia, so this is a notably local museum. There are some rather poor "habitat groups", as I Ursus Kermodéi, 5 of them, including the type, from Tribbet island, B.C. These are strikingly