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towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied preservation and the range of organisms he recognised as new to science led him to return to the quarry almost every year until 1924. At that point, aged 74, he had amassed over 65,000 specimens. Describing the fossils was a vast undertaking that Walcott pursued until he died in 1927. Walcott, led by scientific opinion at the time, attempted to categorise all fossils

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