Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . yons and ridges, and theparty reluctantly retreated to Field,to meet there a snow storm thatclosed all field work for the seasonof igii. Mr. L. D. Burling spent the sum-mer of igio in the collection of fos-sils and in the study of the stratig-raphy of a portion of the rocks inthe Yellowstone National Park andin the Big Horn and Wind RiverMountains of Wyoming. The sec-tions measured were found to beessentially identical with each otherand much similar to those of Colo-rado. The chief purpose of thework was the correlati
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . yons and ridges, and theparty reluctantly retreated to Field,to meet there a snow storm thatclosed all field work for the seasonof igii. Mr. L. D. Burling spent the sum-mer of igio in the collection of fos-sils and in the study of the stratig-raphy of a portion of the rocks inthe Yellowstone National Park andin the Big Horn and Wind RiverMountains of Wyoming. The sec-tions measured were found to beessentially identical with each otherand much similar to those of Colo-rado. The chief purpose of thework was the correlation andproper interpretation of the lower Ordovician fossil fish short visit was made to the type localities in the vicinity of Manitouand Caiion City, Colorado, and several hundred pounds of fossilswere added to the collections. The latter part of August and the earlypart of September 1911 were spent in the study of the Lower Paleozoicrocks of the Van Home Range and at places along the line of theCanadian Pacific Railway west of Field, principally at Fig. 48.—Mr. Burling packingfossils at Glenogle, B. C. NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 45 Quite an interesting and extensive series of Ordovician and Silurianfossils were collected at the town of Stony Mountain, about 15 milesfrom Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Canadian Pacific Railway near Glenogle was such goodgoing that the fossils were carried in hundred-pound lots. Thehunting coat as well as the knapsack (fig. 48) are filled wath rockswhich are crowded with the fossil remains of minute and ancientanimals. BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE MOUNT ROBSON REGION IN THECANADIAN ROCKIES Through the courtesy of the Canadian Government and of Dr.•A. C). Wheeler, president of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Smith-
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