Excerpt from Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, Vol. 3: Insects The Committee has been at work for nearly six years and reports have been prepared or are in preparation by seventy-date specialists. ])r. Hewitt had fortunately practically completed his work on Volume III (insects) before his untimely death on February 29, 1920, but Mr. Macoun had not finished his work on the botanical volumes at the time of his death on January 0. 1920. The scope of the committee was later enlarged to include the geographical, topographical, and anthropological work of the expedition and three new members were added in 1920, namely A. G. Huntsman. Ph.d of the Biological Board-oi Canada; Edward Sapir, Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Memorial Museum; and MD. Dominion Agrostologist and Honorary Curator (later Chief Botanist) of the National Herbarium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.