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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 



Fig. 46. — Little Anyui River. Fourth elevated silt bank, showing camp. 

 Up-river trip, September, 1914. 



Fig. 47.— Little Anyui River. Sixth elevated silt bank, separated bv slough 

 from Anyui proper. No fossils found. Down-river trip, September, 1914. 



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. 



