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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



In the Columbia River valley we had the good fortune to be 

 accompanied by Dr. Charles S. Evans of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey, who by his assistance saved us much time, particularly in 

 the Sinclair Canyon section. Continuing up the Columbia valley to 

 its head, then again into the Kootenay drainage, we had the pleasure 

 of discovering a new locality for some very important Lower Cam- 

 brian beds near Fort Steele, British Columbia. 



Returning now to the United States, and with the main strati- 

 graphic work completed, Dr. Bassler left the party at Coeur d'Alene, 



Fig. 20.— Cliff of Upper Cambrian beds in Newland Creek Canyon, 



Montana, with camp in the foreground. All the strata from the Pre- 



Cambrian to the Carboniferous dip uniformly to the west. (Photograph by 

 Resser. ) 



Idaho. He continued to the West Coast where, before returning to 

 Washington, he spent a few days studying the geology of the Coast 

 Range from which he has previously described several faunas. My 

 son and I then traveled eastward across the picturesque Bitteroot 

 Mountains, through the extensive mining district of Idaho, a region 

 always interesting to the geologist. A brief stop was made at Logan, 

 Montana, where the accumulated fossils were packed and shipped. 

 Following this, visits were made to outcrops of interest in the moun- 

 tains of the south, on the way back to Salt Lake City, where the truck 

 and camp outfit were stored at the University of Utah, through the 

 kindness of members of the Department of Geology. 



