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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



vol. 59 



Most of the field season of 191 1 was spent in a continuation of 

 the work of 19 10 upon the fossil bed between Mount Field and Wapta 

 Peak. Camp was established and a trail built to the fossil quarry in 

 the shale 800 feet above. The secretary, with his assistants, con- 

 tinued collecting as in 19 10. This was a more or less tedious task, 

 the monotony of which was relieved by the occasional discovery of a 

 prize specimen, the exploding of a charge of dynamite, the passing of 



a party of tourists on the trail seven 

 hundred feet below, or by sudden 

 showers and snow flurries. In 

 September a start was made for the 

 Amiskwi Pass region northwest of 

 Field. Rain, followed by snow, 

 met the party on the pass. On 

 September 22, the snow was so deep 

 that the wild animals had left the 

 higher canyons and ridges, and the 

 party reluctantly retreated to Field, 

 to meet there a snow storm that 

 closed all field work for the season 

 of 191 1. 



Mr. L. D. Burling spent the sum- 

 mer of 1910 in the collection of fos- 

 sils and in the study of the stratig- 

 raphy of a portion of the rocks in 

 the Yellowstone National Park and 

 in the Big Horn and Wind River 

 Mountains of Wyoming. The sec- 

 tions measured were found to be 

 essentially identical with each other 

 and much similar to those of Colo- 

 rado. The chief purpose of the 

 work was the correlation and 

 proper interpretation of the lower Ordovician fossil fish horizons. 

 A short visit was made to the type localities in the vicinity of Manitou 

 and Canon City, Colorado, and several hundred pounds of fossils 

 were added to the collections. The latter part of August and the early 

 part of September 191 1 were spent in the study of the Lower Paleozoic 

 rocks of the Van Home Range and at places along the line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway west of Field, principally at Glenogle. 



Fig. 48. — Mr. Burling packing 

 fossils at Glenogle, B. C. 



