NOTES ON THE PALEOZOIC FAUNAS AND STRATIG- 
RAPHY OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA" 
E. M. KINDLE 
United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
INTRODUCTION 
The localities referred to in this paper are located on the islands 
of the Alexander Archipelago and along the shores of the narrow 
coastwise strip west of British Columbia sometimes called the Pan- 
handle of Alaska. 
During the summer of 1905 the writer, in company with Mr. C. 
W. Wright, made a boat journey of about 600 miles along the coasts 
to the southeast of Glacier Bay and the Lynn Canal. Collections 
were made from nearly all of the localities at which fossils had pre- 
viously been found in this region by Mr. Wright and others, and from 
a number of new ones. | 
The trip was undertaken primarily for the purpose of aiding in 
the work of correlating and mapping the rocks of southeastern 
Alaska, upon which Messrs. F. E. and C. W. Wright have for some 
time been engaged. Alaskan faunas have a wide general interest to 
paleontologists, owing to their intermediate position between the 
faunal provinces of America and Asia. So little has been published 
on the faunas of this important region that a preliminary statement 
of the results thus far obtained seems justified in advance of the com- 
prehensive work of the Wrights. A brief statement of the strati- 
graphic succession is essential to the comprehension of the summary 
of the faunas. In presenting this outline of the stratigraphic succes- 
sion the writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to previous 
workers in this region, and particularly to the Wrights, upon whose 
work it is in part based. More explicit reference to the previous 
work in the region is offered in the following brief discussion of the 
more important contributions relating to this field. 
1 Published by permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 
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