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laboratory studies have lieen descriljed in various Smitlisonian jnil^li- 

 cations. Likewise the ethnoloi^ical researches herein l)riefly described 

 will later be elaborated in the l)ulletins and re])orts of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnoloqv. 





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Fig. 3. — Undercutting by blasting in order to get at the fossil-bearing 

 bed of rock in the famous Burgess Pass quarry. William Oke and 

 Alex. Mitton drilling, while standing on poles high above the floor of 

 the quarry. Photograph by W'alcott, 1917. 



GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION'S IX THE CAXADIAX ROCKIES 



In continuation of geological work in the Canadian Rockies, Dr. 

 Charles 1). W'alcott. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was 

 engaged during tlie summer and early fall of 191 7 in field investiga- 

 tions and collectinu' at the now well-known " I'.urgess Pass fossil 



