Summary: | The items include: 1) news from the Royal Geographical Society that the Founder's Medal was awarded to P.D. Baird (AINA's director in Montreal) and the Patron's Medal awarded to Count Eigel Knuth; 2) information on the Banks Island coastal survey party; 3) information on the Ellesmere Ice Shelf party; 4) a report by Keith R. Greenaway on the ice islands observed on R.C.A.F. polar flights; 5) details of the "Blue Dolphin" Labrador expedition to Hamilton Inlet and Lake Melville, Labrador; 6) notes by M.C. Findlay on sheep farming in Greenland; 7) an account by W. Blake of the studies on Grinnell Glacier, Baffin Island; and 8) information on a new carbon drawing ink developed in Tulsa, Oklahoma that may be useful in northern regions as it is not damaged by freezing or thawing.
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