128 In the Milk River Country 



Curator of Reptiles in the American Museum, 

 and the man I consider the greatest collector of 

 extinct reptiles, that these exposures belong to 

 the Edmonton Series of which we have such 

 splendid exposures on the Red Deer River, in 

 Alberta. This fact has greatly lessened the dis- 

 appointment. However, as misfortune never 

 comes alone, a thorough exploration of the ex- 

 posures of Milk River, Alberta, revealed the fact 

 that they too, were quite barren of vertebrae fos- 

 sils. On the afternoon of the eighth of June, 

 1915, with all my party together, we drove down 

 to Verdegris coulee, twelve miles east of Milk 

 River Station. It is a comparatively wide valley, 

 rather barren of vegetation. There is a large 

 lake named in honor of the Deputy Minister of 

 the Department of Mines, Mr. R. G. McConnell, 

 a short distance above camp, on the coulee. There 

 are rather extensive exposures, along the slopes 

 that lead up from the valley to the prairie a hun- 

 dred feet above. The lower reaches are purple, 

 yellowish, and reddish clays, and sand into 

 which one sinks while walking. Above is yel- 

 lowish sandstone that stands out in bold escarp- 

 ments in places, it is washed into steep slopes. 

 In this coulee I found some fine leaf impressions 

 ■ — Platanus, Poplar, and a splendid palm, shaped 

 like a date palm. The fine palmetto palms, I 

 found above the Lance Beds in Wyoming, were 

 fan-shaped. These, however, have long, lance- 

 shaped leaflets from a common central stem. I 



