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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l-lailioai constriicii'd for (iriftiiig down Red Deer River. A twenty-two-foot sweep at each end, like a long oar, served in guiding tlie boat out of the way of rocks in tlie course. This was eventually converted into a houseboat because of excessive rains and dearth of camping places along the shores FOSSIL HUNTING BY BOAT IN CANADA Ihl Ihtniinn Brnirii Photographs by the .Vullio/ 44 H ()W do you know where to look for fossils? " is a common question. In general it may he answered that the surface of North America lias heen pretty well explored by government surxeys and scien- tific expeditions and the geologic age of the larger areas determined. Most imi)()rtant in determining the geologic sequence of the earth's strata are the fossil remains of animal and plant life. A grouping of distinct species of fossils correlated with stratigrapliic ciiaracters in the rocks determines these subdivisions. When a collection of fossils is desired to represent a certain period, exploring parties are sent to these known areas. Sometimes however, chance information leads up to most important discoveries, such as resulted from the work of the past two seasons in Alberta, Canada. A visitor to the Museum, Mr. J. I>. Wagner, while examining our mineral collections saw the large bones in the Reptile Hall and remarked to the Curator of Mineralogy that he had seen many similar bones near his ranch in the Red Deer Canon of Alberta. After talking some time an invitation was extended to the writer to visit iiis home and prospect the canon. Accordingly in the fall of 1909 a preliminary trip was made to the locality. From Didsl)ury, a little town north of Calgary, the writer drove eastward ninety miles to the Red Deer liixcr through a portion of the newly opened grain belt of Alberta, destined in the near future to produce a large part 273

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