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atmospheric agencies. Beside the specimen of Portalia mira (fig. 7) 

 there is an imprint of a mucl-loving actinian ( Mackcnrsia costalis) 

 that closely resembles Edzvardsia, a living form that usually lives 

 buried in the sand. 



" At the quarry,'" says Mr. Walcott, " we found one of our old 

 friends that led me to write a note on animal beliavior. When we 

 were collecting fossils there in 1911, rock squirrels began to come to 

 the quarry we were opening. At lunch time we threw them bits of 







Fk;. II. — A summer snowstorm at Burgess Pass camp, 3,000 feet al)Ove 

 Field, British Columbia, Canada. Photograph liy W'alcott, lyij. 



bread and crackers, and later carried up nuts to give them. They 

 became very tame, and when we returned the following year ( 1912) 

 one of them, that we named (jranny. because she apparently had two 

 generations of young squirrels that came with her, would run up on 

 our legs and shoulders, and if we did not promptly give her some- 

 thing to eat she would give a sharp chirjj to call attention. ( )ne rainy 

 day when crouched under a rubber blanket at lunch time, (jranny 

 came, and seeing a cake of chocolate lying on my knee made a grab 

 for it, running uj) my arm and over my shoulder with it so as to jump 



