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the right of Mount Drysdale the eastern side of the great Washnia- 

 wapta snow field may be seen ; in the distance through the Pass the 

 dark Beaverfoot Range, and beyond it in the extreme background the 

 snowy peaks of the gray Selkirk ranges. 



" A late September storm drove us back from Wolverine Pass to 

 the Vermilion River where below Ochre Creek a search was made for 

 moose. 1)V a lucky scout on September 30, X'ernon Wood located 

 a herd above the \'ermilion River, and the next day a great bull 

 (fig. 19). a cow and young were brought down under permit granted 

 by Chief Game Warden Byron Williams of British Columbia. 



■' There is a fine mountain region between the Continental Divide 

 and the upper Kootenay Valley of British Columbia that still awaits 

 exploration by the geologist and photographer interested in grand 

 views and great series of very old rocks that were formed in the 

 earlier history of the continent." 



GEOLOGICAL AND PALEOXTOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 



But little was accomplished by the National Museum divisions of 

 Economic and Systematic Geology in the way of fieldwork during 

 tlie season of 19 17. 



During the latter part of A])ril and early part of May. 1917, 

 Assistant Curator Wherry of the division of Mineralogy, while on 

 private business in the west, was detailed to collect materials for the 

 school duplicate series in sundry easily available localities. This 

 resulted in the acquisition of the lots mentioned below : 



L'pward of 100 geodes from the well-known locality at Warsaw, 

 Illinois; 100 specimens of wolframite in matrix, 200 pounds of peg- 

 matite carrying cassiterite, and an equal amount of amblygonite, 

 from the region about Keystone, South Dakota ; aliout 150 specimens 

 of zinc and lead minerals and 200 pounds of beautiful chert breccia 

 from the new zinc district at Picher, Oklahoma ; and some 300 pounds 

 of hematite with coarse aj)atite inclusions from Iron Mountain, 

 r^Iissouri. 



The division of Invertebrate Paleontology has been enabled to 

 carry out a more extensive series of investigations and collecting 

 trips. Doctor Bassler reports that in company with Assistant Curator 

 Doctor C. E. Resser. he spent ten days in the Frederick and I lagers- 

 town valleys of Maryland with the object of securing for the 

 exhibition series large examples illustrating the various types of con- 

 glomerate. Two fine, large masses of the well-known Triassic lime- 

 stone conglomerate were obtained with little difficulty, but e(|ually 



