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ANNUAL REPORT xxxix In addition to public lectures delivered in the College see pp xlv-xlviii Professor Gates also lectured before the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Anthropological Society of the London School of Economics Mr Barton-Wright received grant from the Dixon Fund for the purchase of micro-chemical balance and an electrical furnace for micro-combustion Additions to the departmental equipment include two pointolites set of Wratten light filters six dissecting microscopes and considerable quantity of physiological apparatus The summer field class in ecology was held at Swanage from July 9th to 16th 1928 under the charge of Dr Cook the class numbering fourteen The plants collected and identified included 395 species of flowering plants and 57 cryptogams list of the collections was presented to the Bournemouth Natural History Society The country covered included chalk downs salt marshes and marine vegetation and ecological methods of plotting transect etc were studied During the summer Professor Gates made botanical and anthropo- logical expedition in the Canadian Arctic from Great Slave Lake down the Mackenzie River to its mouth He was accompanied by Mr Mellanby of Cambridge who acted as assistant The equipment which was admitted free of duty by the Canadian Government included cameras cinema film and collecting apparatus The plant collections which numbered about 300 species were determined at Kew and the Natural History Museum The flora of the Canadian tundra north of the tree line was compared with that of Russian Lapland in the same latitude An anthropological study was also made of the Indian tribes and Eskimos including blood group tests which are now being used as criterion of racial relationships considerable collection of Eskimo implements obtained from Kittigazuit on the Arctic coast of Canada was purchased by the British Museum for exhibit This expedition was made possible by the generous action of the Hudson's Bay Company in placing their travel facilities in these unfrequented parts at our disposal FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE Department of Anatomy Number of Students The total number of students in the Department was 403 an increase of 30 over the total for the previous Session Of these 98 were working for London University Degrees 95 in Medicine in Dental Science 45 for degrees of other Universities 100 for Diplomas of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 66 in Medicine 34 in Dentistry for the Diploma of the Society of Apothecaries 32 for the Primary Examination and 123 for the Diploma of the Chartered Society for Massage and Medical Gymnastics