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144 INSTITUTE NEWS A  comparison of the ecology of lem- ming  predators  on Banks  I land, N.W.T., Canada,  with that  in Alaska. Moss, Melvin L., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A. Skeletal  physiology of arctic fish and marine invertebrates. Pitelka, Frank A., University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Ecology of lemmings  and  other  micro- Reviews ARCTIC ISLAND HUNTER. By PAUL ADAMS. London: George Ronald. 1961. 136 pages, illustrated. 21 s. The Germans have an expression to the effect that “when  a  person  makes  a journey,  then  he’ll have a  story to tell”. Mr.  Adams,  a  Londoner,  sought  adven- ture  in  the Arctic and tried Spitsbergen (not Spitzbergen), found something to tell- and  wrote  abook  about  his winter  with the well-known  Norwegian hunter Hilmar Nois. The year of hunting and trapping is faithfully recorded: travels on sea and ice and snow, the little things that  are important in  the life of the over-win- terer, and  also  a  visit  to the Russians. It makes entertaining, light reading for the interested  who prefers  to  learn, in comfort,  about the polar  winter’s  cold and darkness, and the hunter’s lonely life. Furthermore, of course, it is differ- ent  from  those tales one  may hear these days, from tourists who visit Svalbard on  organised  summer  tours.  Mr.  Adams saw another side of the country and people. Some nice photographs enhance the book. SVENN ORVIC AN  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  COLLEC- TION  FROM  SOMERSET  ISLAND AND BOOTHIA PENINSULA, N.W.T. By JAMES W. VANSTONE. Pages 1 - 63, 2 maps, 11 plates. tines in northern Alaska. Steere, W.  C.,  New York  Botanical Garden,  New  York,  New  York,  U.S.A. Arctic  American  mosses. Tedrow, J. C. F., Rutgers-State Uni- versity,  New  Brunswick,  New Jersey, U.S.A. A study of the pedologic processes operating in the arctic areas of Alaska. A  CONTRIBUTION  TO  THE  HUMAN OSTEOLOGY OF THE  CANADIAN ARCTIC. By J. E. ANDERSON A D C. F. MERBS. Pages 65 - 94,6  tables,  map, diu- gram, 11 plates. Occasional Paper 4. Art and Archaeology Division, The Royal Ontario Museum and University of To- ronto. Toronto University Press. 1962. 10 x 6% inches, paper. $1.00. Between 1939 and 1949 the remark- able Mr.  L.  A. Learmonth  collected and sent to  the Royal  Ontario  Museum ar- chaeological  materials  from the Somer- set-Boothia region. Dr. VanStone has selected,  analysed,  and interpreted a large part of the collection  coming from seven  sites.  Reporting  on  materials  with limited context information poses sev- eral problems that have been  carefully recognized by the author. Following a historical  summary are sections  briefly describing the artifacts from each site, with an analytical summary indicating the ages and cultural relations of the occupations  represented. The small body of Dorset  specimens  likely  belongs to a developed stage of that culture. The later Thule culture produced the bulk of the artifacts although there is also  a good representation  from the 19th- and early-20th-century Netsilik occupations of the region.  The  19th- century artifacts are of special  historic interest, having come from a grave at Thom Bay that surely contained Tul- luahiu, the Netsilik hunter who  was 

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