it is always doul)tful if one has seen all exposures, so there was peculiar 

 satisfaction in making a thorough search of these river hanks knowing that 

 few if any fossils had escaped observation. On account of the heavy rain- 

 fall and frequent sliding of banks new" fossils are exposed every season so 

 that in a few years these same banks can again be explored profitably. 

 This river will become as classic hunting ground for reptile remains as the 

 Bad Lands of South Dakota are for mammals. 



Although the summer days are long in this latitude the season is short 

 and thousands of geese flying southward foretell the early winter. AYhere 

 the temperature is not infreciuently forty to sixty degrees below zero in 

 winter, it is difficult to think of a time w lien a warm climate could have 

 prevailed, yet such condition is indicated by the fossil plants. 



When the weather became too cold to work with plaster, the fossils were 

 shipped from a branch railroad foi-t\-fi\e miles distant, the camp material 

 was stored for the winter and with lilock and tackle the big boat was hauled 

 up on shore above the reach of high water. 



In the summer of 1911 the boat was reealkcd ami again launched when 

 we continued our search from the point at which work closed the previous 

 year. During the sinnmer we were visited by the ^Museum's President, 

 Prof. Henry Fairfield Osljorn, and one of the Trustees, Mr. Madison Grant. 

 A canoeing trip, one of great interest and pleasure, was taken with our 

 visitors covering two hundred and fifty miles down the river from the town 

 of Red Deer, during which valuable material was added to the collection 

 and important geological data secured. 



As a result of the Canadian work the Museum is enriched by a magnifi- 

 cent collection of Cretaceous fossils some of which are new to science. 



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