Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 21.—Crossing the headwaters of the Firth River a few miles from theArctic divide on the Alaska-Yukon boundary. Photograph by Amory. various species, including caribou, beaver and other rodents, foxes,wolves, weasels, etc. ^ This specimen, which proved to be a Pleistocene camel, is described byMr. James W. Gidley in Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 60, No. 26, 1913. 24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES In continuance of his investigation of the Cambrian geolog
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 21.—Crossing the headwaters of the Firth River a few miles from theArctic divide on the Alaska-Yukon boundary. Photograph by Amory. various species, including caribou, beaver and other rodents, foxes,wolves, weasels, etc. ^ This specimen, which proved to be a Pleistocene camel, is described byMr. James W. Gidley in Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 60, No. 26, 1913. 24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES In continuance of his investigation of the Cambrian geology inthe main range of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and BritishColumbia. Canada, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smith-sonian Institution, visited the region of the Yellowhead Pass, throughwhich two great transcontinental railwa\ lines, the Grand TrunkPacific, and the Canadian Northern, are now building toward thePacific Fi(. 22—Kodak \K\\ c I Ihillips Mountain with the neve and ice of ChushinaGlacier, which extendi down the slopes a mile where it overhangs the drain-age line from Snowbird Pass. Photograph by Walcott, 1912. x\fter outfitting at Fitzhugh, east of the Yellowhead Pass, on theline of the Grand Tnuik Pacific, the party crossed over the Passon the Continental Divide and turned north from the line of the rail-way at IMoose River, 17 miles west of the Pass. The Moose Riverwas followed up to its head in Moose Pass, and a camp made at thehead of Calumet Creek, which is a tributary of the Smoky farthest camp out was made at Robson Pass, between Berg andAdiilphus Lakes. Side trips were made from two camps in jNIoose NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9I2 25 River valley, the Aloose Pass camp and the Robson Pass fine photographs were secured, and a reconnoissance sectionmade of the great block of Cambrian and Ordovician strata fromwhich the mountains of this region have been f
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