Interesting To Tourists And Students

The late Alexauder Wiachell, Professor of Qeolosy and PaheontolOKV in the University of Miohisran shortly before hisdeath took a trip to Montana, and was so delighted with what be experienced that he wrote F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A.,of the (Jreat Northera RaUway. St. Paul. Min n., a lengthy letter from Ana Arbor, in which he testified his pleasure, and from which we,u[.i ,ust returne,i from the mat?niaceot tour devised and eonducted under your auspicea, and I wish first to thank you for tbe courtes es extended to me personally and then to tranmit an aeolamation of thanks from the entire party. Nothinjr more delishtful. more impressive or more memorable, oould be planned- this was the oft repeated exclamation wtueh I lneard on every day of the tour. I shall make much ue of tbe observations and exceriences of the tnp, both in mv lectures and in print, and I 8hall be very happy to inerease interest in the repons traversed by yóur lines. No new part of America offers so ruu ;h to students, artUts.healtn-seekersand tourists." . " ' lt wa the intontion of Prof. Winchell to have made another visit to Montana, havmg become much interested in the marvelous opportunities f -r geologiMll atudy offered by the upheavals in the Belt Mountains and other ranges in the vieimty of Oreat Falis, which ranges alsoreveal a!)'indant rern:iiD8 of ancient aaimal Ufe. Followin" the visit of Pro'. Wiuchell, Prof. Scott and a party from Princeton Collepte went out and found the bones. in manr cases well preserved. of nolesi than forty different ortsof buste and groteaque animáis that existed in the oiden ages of .lite on the globe. Many varietles of flshes and other forms oí early marine lfe were also found, buned m tha cliffs It wa3 a picnic for the scientinc men wlio uQtpnly learned much more than they exnecte'd but who enjoyed with keen relish the splendid mountam soenery and exhileratins air. anri managed also to catch flne strlnas of flih. comaion now in the rivera aui streams, aud bal. too, not a little gauio. _