NO. 6 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I914 



II 



Starting- at Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, and continuing south- 

 ward through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and 

 Alabama, all the classic localities were visited, as well as many not 

 so well known. The celebrated Calvert cliffs along Chesapeake Bay 

 yielded a rich Miocene fauna and here many specimens were easily 

 secured by searching the debris along the beach as shown in the 

 accompanying photograph (fig. 11). 



At Wilmington, North Carolina, an especially fine lot of material 

 suitable for biological studies was collected from the city rock- 

 quarry, through the generous cooperation of the contractor in charge 

 of some convict laborers. In South Carolina, the curator was taken 

 through the swamps to the fossil localities by Mr. Earle Sloan, former 



Fig. 12. — Cypress swamp, Santee River basin, South Carolina. Photograph 



by Bassler. 



State geologist, without whose expert knowledge of the region little 

 could have been accomplished. Here in many cases the rock expos- 

 ures consisted of nothing but small outcrops brought to the surface 

 by the " knees " of the cypress trees (fig. 12), but weathering of the 

 hard rock had been so complete that many specimens could be had 

 free of surrounding matrix. In Georgia and Alabama an abundance 

 of material collected carefully with regard to its geologic position 

 was secured and the stratigraphic position of several hitherto 

 unplaced faunas was determined. The results of this field work from 

 both the paleontologic and stratigraphic standpoints were so satis- 



