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The living evidence of the heat developed by the upturning and 

 compression of the strata under the eastward thrust of the massive 

 Selkirk Mountains is that of Radium Hot Springs in Sinclair Canyon, 

 and Fairmont Hot Springs, 15 miles (24 km.) or more to the south. 



During the summer ]\Irs. Walcott sketched in water colors 24 

 species of wild flowers, or their fruit, that were new to her collection 

 now on exhibition in the great hall of the Smithsonian building. 

 Some of her photographs of wild flowers are shown by figures 24-27, 

 and sketching in camp by figure 28. 



The party at the end of the season camped on the eastern side of 

 the Columbia River Valley at Radium Hot Springs postoffice, where 

 the veteran prospector, John A. McCullough, has made his home for 

 many years. He and Mrs. McCullough were most courteous and 

 obliging to the party which then consisted of the Secretary and Mrs. 

 Walcott, Arthur Brown, Paul J. Stevens, packer, and William Baptie, 

 camp assistant. 



Familiar scenes in connection with the life on the trail are illus- 

 trate'd by figure 29. 



The Commissioner of the Canadian National Parks, Flon. J. B. 

 Harkin, and the members of the Parks service in the field, especially 

 Chief Inspector Sibbald and Chief Game Warden John R. Warren, 

 were most helpful, also the officials and employees of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. 



PALEONTOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK IN THE UNITED STATES 

 Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator, division of paleontology, U. vS. National 

 Aluseum, working in collaboration with the State Survey, was in the 

 field six weeks in June and July, in a continuation of stratigraphic 

 and paleontologic studies begun a year earlier in the Central Basin 

 of Tennessee. This work is so extensive that a number of seasons 

 of field-work will be necessary for its completion. In 1921 the study 

 and mapping of the Franklin quadrangle, an area of about 250 

 square miles, just south of Nashville, was well advanced but so many 

 new stratigraphic problems arose that the State Geologist, Mr. Wilbur 

 A. Nelson, suggested the field season of 1922 be devoted to the fur- 

 ther study of the Franklin quadrangle and to stratigraphic studies in 

 contiguous areas. Accordingly, the mapping of the Franklin quad- 

 rangle was completed and data secured for the preparation of a geo- 

 logical report upon the area, to be published by the State. Strati- 

 graphic studies were then undertaken in the adjacent contiguous 



