NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQ15 3 
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Among the fossils collected, the remains of wolverine, bison, deer, and 
mammoth were easily recognized on the spot. 
All these fossils found were carried to convenient shelves on the base of 
the silt bluffs and marked by stakes driven into the ground, to be picked up and 
Fic. 46.—Little Anyui River. Fourth elevated silt bank, showing camp. 
Up-river trip, September, 1914. 
Fic. 47.—Little Anyui River. Sixth elevated silt bank, separated by slough 
from Anyui proper. No fossils found. Down-river trip, September, I914. 
taken to Nizhni Kolymsk on our return trip. This precaution proved to be 
quite necessary, as a thin crust of newly fallen snow covered the ground 
before we reached the settlement again. 
