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INTERESTING TO TOOR1STS AND STUDENTS. The late Alcxander '.Viacheil, Professor of Geology and Palaeintologv in the University of Michigan, shortly before his death took a trip to Montana, and was so deligbted with what he experienced thar, he wrore F. I. Whitncy, G. P. & T. A.. of the Great Northern Railway, St. Paul. Minn., a lengthy letter f rom Aun Arbor, iu which he testifled hi8 pleasure, and from which we Quote: "1 have just returned from the magniflcent tour devised and conducted under your auspices, and I wish first to thank you for the courtes:es extended to me personally, and thea to tran.smit an acclamation of thanks from the entire party. Nothing more delishtf ui, more irupres9ive or more memorable, could be planned- this was the oft repeated exclamation wlncli I lieard on every day of the tour. I shall make much use of the observations and exceriences of the trip, both in my lecture and in print, and I shall be very happy to increase interest in the reions travensed by your Unes. No new part of America offers so muih to students, artists. health-seekers and tourists." lt was the intention of Prof. Winchell to have made another visit to Montana, havinjr beeome much interested in the tnarveloua opportunities fir geoloicai study oiTered by the unheavals in the Belt Mountains and other outlyiirj ranses in the vlcinity of Great Falla, which ranftes also reveal ab'indant remaias of ancieut aaimal life. Followinjf the visit of Prof. Winchell, Prof. Scott and a party from Princetou Collese went out and found the bones, in manv cases well preserved. of noless thn forty ditfereiit sorts of huiie and grotesque animáis that existed íq 'he O;den ages of life on the slobe. Many varieties of fishes and other forms of early marine life w-re also found buried in the cliffs. It was a picnic for the solentlflc men who i'mtonly learned much more than they expected, but who enjoyed with keen relish the spleudid mountaia soenery and exhilerating air. and managed also to eatch flae stritiijs of üsh. cjrnaion now ia the rivera aud streams, and bag, too, not a little game.