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Show Collecting Fossil Remains Is Different Hobby By FAT PATTERSON Interest In rocks and all types of .niuir..l fnrmatlona heean for Dr. Olivia McHugh, cop Ninth avenue. when she was On about 12 years old, and under the Of m supervision of her . father. Dr. F. M. 5eri6$ McHugh, ahe reproduced re-produced in diagram dia-gram form the Waaatch mountains in Utah with the typical rock forms attached. The major portion of her collection collec-tion has been obtained during the past seven yeara during which time her Interest haa extended Into the foaall field. Prise in her collection are a number of rocks with trylo-bits trylo-bits remsins impressed in them, ths trylobite hsving lived more than a billion year ago and having been extinct for more than a half-billion half-billion years. A billion years elapsed between the time theae impressions were made and the time the foeall remsins re-msins of a mosquito wore formed that la In Dr. McHugh's possession. Fossil insects are rare due to the fact, that insects are seldom caught In mud or eand from which the rock ia formed In the elapse of yeara. Tiny specks In one of her rocks were at one time Ollenellua which have now turned to carbon and only small black apots Indicating Indicat-ing their remsins can be seen. The bees, files, ants and moaquitoee cams from Fktreeeant Colo., which le rich In this type of fossil, and another type found in that a action of the oountry la leaves, sufficiently clear la their Impressions to determine de-termine the species. A fossil bass In a large rock and two dinoaaur bones are other of Dr. McHugh's prised possessions, the bones being obtained In Jensen, Jen-sen, Utah, prior to ths Urns of the erection of the national monument Dr. McHugh has obtained the greater portion of her collection he. self during mountain explorations explora-tions with her father and friends, and a large number aha baa received re-ceived through exchange with others with similar Intereata. Her interest la her bobby haa developed to each a degree that It occupies a huge portion of her time and haa alao led her, with others, la found-lag found-lag the Mineralogy Society of Utah which wea erganissd last March. |