Show Fossil Insects of Dinosaur Age l Ai Are rc Found in Anther Amber Cambridge Mass Fossil in insects in- in insects insects sects of the Cretaceous the twi twi- twilight twilight twilight light age of the dinosaurs have h ve been collected in in northern Cana Cana- Canada da by methods reminiscent of gold rush days in the Yukon by oy Profs Charles T. T Brues rues and F. F M. M cr of Harvard sity The insects are embedded in lumps of amber and are the first of thi this age aie to be found as the Baltic amber of Europe is of more recent Tertiary origin Millions of years ago when the amber was oozing pitch on the trunks of coni coni- conifer conifer fer trees they got stuck and em em- bedded Then the gummy stuff was buried and slowly hardened to am am- amber amber amber ber giving its victims a truly royal entombment Professor Brues led a small party far into northern Manitoba They pitched camp on the shores of an isolated lake where amber was known to occur Instead of a continuous shore of sand mud or rock this lake beach is formed of ground up wood The battered debris from logs and trees washed into the lake by the Sas Sas- Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Saskatchewan river forms this unusual shoreline material In this the small lumps of or amber are included Panned the Fossils I Dr Brues and his party shoveled this wooden sand into pans and andI washed it in a stream in the ap approved approved I proved gold panning ritual The heavy amber settled to the bottom and the lighter wood fragments were washed over the edge In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way the party accumulated a quantity of amber bits weighing al al- altogether altogether altogether together about pounds They have not flot yet had time since returning to the laboratory to give this amber treasure more than a swift preliminary looking over De De- Detailed Detailed tailed examination will require many months of work I t. t |