Interesting To Tourists And Students

The late Alexander Winchell, Professor of Geo.ogy and Pal;e -.ntoloirr in the University -of Michigan, shortly before his death took a trip to Montana, and was so delighted with what lie experienced that he wrote F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T A., of the tjreat Northern Railway, St. Paul, Minn., a leugthy letter rom Aun Ar'ior, iu which hetestifled his pleasure, and from which we quote: "1 have just returned from the magnifieent tour devised and couducted under your auspices, and I wieh first to thank you for the courtes es exiended to me personally, and then to transmit an acclamatiou of thanks from the entire party. Nothiug more delightful, more Impressive or more memorable, eould be planued- this was the oft repeated exclamation wlueli 1 heard on every day of the tour. I shall make much use of the ooservations and exceriences of the trip, both in my lectures and in print, and f sliall be very happy to Inorease interest in the rerions traversed by your lines. No new part of America offers so mu-'h to students, artists, health-seeKers and fcourlsts." It was the intention of Prof. Winchell to h ive made another visit to Montana, having be■come much interested in the inarvelous oppor'uiiities fr ifeolOfiioai study otTered by the upneavals in the Belt Moüntains and other nutlviu rangen in the vicinity of Great Falta, which ranges alsoreveai abundant remaias of ancien t animal life. Followinsr the visit of Prof. Winchell, Prof. Scott and a party from Princetou College went out ana found the bones, lu many capes well preserved, of noless tHan forty different sorts of huge and grotesque animáis that exlsted in 'he o, den ases of life on the globe. Many varieties of fishes and other forms of early marine Ufe w re also found buried in the cliffs. It was a picnic for the scientific mea wlio uot only learned muc:i more than they expected, but who enjoyed with keen relish the splendid mountain scenery and exhllerating air, and manag-ed also to catch fine strings of fisn. common aoiv in the rivers and streams, and bag, too, not a little game.