INCOR. ANAL SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, IQIO-IQII 45 
Quite an interesting and extensive series of Ordovician and Silurian 
fossils were collected at the town of Stony Mountain, about 15 miles 
from Winnipeg, Manitoba. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway near Glenogle was such “ good 
going” that the fossils were carried in hundred-pound lots. The 
hunting coat as well as the knapsack (fig. 48) are filled with rocks 
which are crowded with the fossil remains of minute and ancient 
animals. 
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE MOUNT ROBSON REGION IN THE 
CANADIAN ROCKIES 
Through the courtesy of the Canadian Government and of Dr. 
‘A. O. Wheeler, president of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Smith- 
Fic. 49—Mount Robson, British Columbia. Photograph by Hollister, ro1t. 
sonian Institution was enabled, in the summer of 1911, to send a small 
party of naturalists to accompany Dr. Wheeler on his topographical 
survey of the British Columbia and Alberta boundary line and the 
Mount Robson region. The party started in June, and returned in 
October, IQ1t. 
Mr. N. Hollister, of the United States National Museum, natu- 
ralist in charge of the party, reported on his return the expedition 
had been very successful in obtaining a fairly complete collection, 
covering practically all the birds and mammals inhabiting this pre- 
viously unworked territory, together with many insects and botanical 
specimens. The party of naturalists consisted of four members, 
