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atmospheric agencies. Beside the specimen of Portalia niira (fig. 7) 

 there is an imprint of a mud-loving actinian {Mackenzia costalis) 

 that closely resembles Edzvardsia, a living form that usually lives 

 buried in the sand. 



" At the quarry/' says Mr. Walcott, " we found one of our old 

 friends that led me to write a note on animal behavior. When we 

 were collecting fossils there in 1911, rock squirrels began to come to 

 the quarry we were opening. At lunch time we threw them bits of 



Fig. II. — A summer snowstorm at Burgess Pass camp, 3,000 feet above 

 Field, British Columbia, Canada. Photograph by Walcott, 191 7. 



bread and crackers, and later carried up nuts to give them. They 

 became very tame, and when we returned the following year (1912) 

 one of them, that we named Granny, because she apparently had two 

 generations of young squirrels that came with her, would run up on 

 our legs and shoulders, and if we did not promptly give her some- 

 thing to eat she would give a sharp chirp to call attention. One rainy 

 day when crouched under a rubber blanket at lunch time. Granny 

 came, and seeing a cake of chocolate lying on my knee made a grab 

 for it, running up my arm and over my shoulder with it so as to jump 



