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•THE ARCTIC CIRCULARVOL. VIII NO. Z Published by The Arctic Circle 1955Ottawa, OntarioSixty-first MeetingThe sixty-first meeting of the Arctic Circle was held inthe P.L.D.G. Mess, 60 Queen Street, on Friday October 14. ThePresident, Mr. A. D. McLean, was in the Chair, and introducedthe speaker, Mr. J. S. Tener. Mr. Tener gave an account of a"Canoe trip on the Back and Thelon rivers".Sixty-second MeetingThe sixty-second meeting of the Arctic Circle was heldin the P.L.D.G. Mess, 60 Queen Street, on Thursday November 8.The President, Mr. A. D. McLean, was in the Chair and introducedthe speaker, Mr. C. L. Merrill. Mr. Merrill described the workof "Site selection and construction at Aklavik, 1954-5", and illustratedhis talk with a film.An anthropological survey of the Belcher Islands. By Claude DesgoffeThe following account of work in the Belcher Islands duringthe summer of 1954 was writt~n by Claude Desgoffe shortly before hereturned to the islands in June 1955 to continue his anthropologicalstudies for the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.Mr. Desgoffe was accompanied by Gilles Lefebvre of the Universityof Montreal. Early in September it was learned that Mr. Desgoffeand his two Eskimo companions had been drowned, presumably onAugust 6. The circumstances of this tragic accident are describedin another note in this issue.Editor, A.C.The Eskimo are often considered to be one of the bestknown aboriginal people. There is no doubt that their culture hasbeen carefully observed in Canada, as well as in Alaska and Greenland.But as far as Canada is concerned, mos~dies, such as