8 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION^ 1913. 



jierial locomotion for the purposes of commerce, national defense, and the wel- 

 fare of man. 



That the secretary is authorized to secure, as far as practicable, the co- 

 operation of governmental and other agencies in the development of aerodrom- 

 ical research under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. 



The Regents also authorized the secretary to appoint an advisory 

 committee; to add, as means are provided, other laboratories and 

 agencies ; to group them into a bureau organization ; and to secure the 

 cooperation with them of the Government and other agencies. 



In accordance with the above general plan an advisory committee 

 was organized at a meeting convened at the Institution on May 23. 

 1913. The official status, organization, agencies, resources, and 

 facilities of this committee are set forth in a statement reprinted in 

 the appendix to the present report. 



In preparing plans for carrying forward investigations in various 

 lines a study is being made of researches in progress in other coun- 

 tries, and an allotment has been made from the Hodgkins fund for 

 the maintenance, in part, of the laboratory. 



STUDIES IN CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 



During the field season of the fiscal year 1912-13, or the spring and 

 summer of 1913, I continued my geological work in the Canadian 

 Rockies. A month w^as spent in the Robson Park district of British 

 Columbia, and Jasper Park, Alberta, our camp being on the conti- 

 nental divide near Berg Lake, northwest of the Yellowhead Pass, 

 through which the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern 

 Railways have been built. 



Considerable collections of fossils were made at several localities, 

 photographs were taken, and several places in the geological section 

 studied in 1912 were examined. This was rendered necessary by 

 reason of my having been driven out of the region by continued rain 

 and snow storms the previous year. 



From the Robson district I went to Burgess Pass, north of Field, 

 British Columbia, and worked at the Middle Cambrian fossil quarry 

 until late in the season. Both in the Robson district and also at Bur- 

 gess Pass I was assisted by my two sons, Sidney and Stuart, who 

 have had many years' experience in field work in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Mr. R. D. Mesler, of the United States National Museum, 

 spent nearly the entire field season collecting at Burgess Pass. 

 Special effort was made to finish collecting at this famous locality, 

 and at the close of the field season a collection of several thousand 

 specimens weighing over two and a half tons was shipped to Wash- 

 ington. 



GEOIXXJICAL SURVEY OF PANAMA. 



A plan has been formulated and some progress has been made in 

 certain lines of field Avork for a geological survey of Panama, under 



