Show mm LESSONS IN Y by prof earl douglass thit series of lessons is intended for those who wish to get a in fil the study of geology of all the kIc kipnees nees this is the most practical and the least understood this must be due to the method of tudy study for the average mind without any special previous training can understand its leading principles As has been said crile ran can read all the books about nature and then go out of doors and not be able to find her though the student will need one or more good text books tor for reading and reference he will not bo be plunged at once into some profound technical treatise but will study the things themselves in ili the old system of learning not yet extinct the student was plunged into some far off foundation or beginning of things to work nork his way a as best he could out of the unknown a as satan in paradise lost worked his way out of hell through chaos 0 er bog steep through strait rough dense or rare with head wings or feet pursues life his way or swims or sinks or wades or ele pen or files and found 11 at length a universal hubbub wild had this ancient sinner not been endowed mith an unconquerable will and courage never to submit or yield lie he would never have got ten out of chaos into light so it Is with the modern student who starts from tile the unknown to find the known the student of the present lessons will start at home with the known with the soil a at t his big feet and will progress as much as pos sible by his own observation thought and discovery As a rule we know more than we think we do though there are some whom we think that they think that they know more than we think they do when the students of socrates asked him some profound question he did riot not give bis big arbitrary ian api bei asked them questions until they answered their first question themselves often what we need most to Is to hear someone help us connect up the different central offices in our minds so BO we can find out what we do know the lessons will bo be conducted by lee lectures fures accompanied by specia specimens us and lantern slides glides and by questions to draw out the students kno knowledge uledge should be taken to green river to split mountain canyon to tile the dinosaur quarry to the devil s 9 playground near kennedys Kenn edys hole and the tertiary badlands on white river and if possible to other places or of Inte iet all aho vho an fin I 1 it 4 convenient should accompany these thebe althou gli it is not abhold necessary A brief preliminary suggestion of the work to be covered Is given below 1 I 1 the soil iho io bouru uru ot ol our food and noil and u n nu other good things R of what in IB the soil made and where does it come from how to judge bolls will the soil be exhausted and men have to starve the farmers of forty centuries and what we can learn from them the earth and sub due it 2 lot us wander by the riverside what Is the river doing T its deposits their source irrigating ditches by the marshes and lakes the work of wind and water climate the history of green river I 1 gold and placer deposits 3 in the mountains before the mountains were brought forth how were they formed and sure ly the mountains falling cometh to naught and the rock to la removed out of its place and the waters batem wear the stones the overflow ings there of wasti wash away the dust duat of the earth 11 A lessen in erosion and mountain forming 4 to split mountain canyon sandstones Sande Sandi tonea tones and lime stones remains of marine animals in the lime stones hast thou entered into the springs of the ties sea or hast best thou walked in the recesses of the deep leagues under the sea what can we learn from the ocean there to la a rapture on the lone ly shore there to te society where none intrudes dy by the deep sea and music in its waves wavea 11 inhumation or burial without fun ei bials ale i 6 5 the founders of geology the history of geological science and the men m who ho have made it 0 tracing mans history backward I 1 I I 1 pray thee of ahn th for mer age fr F r i ve e are but of yesterday esterday T and their relics the liff dwellers excavation in an dent cities the great nations of antiquity men of the stone ages the wintry age 7 A trip to white river the devils playground natures sculpture the badlands of white river A wonderful view like a great ruina eity city es and Uinta theres plants and insects of long ago the age of mammals lot us go fossil hunting ohp badlands of 0 and R the ilya ro carbone Gilsom to are did ahry come from A land of wonders condors and problems are there areat on oil fields beneath us jis 4 to the D dinosaur I 1 boos bola dragons of the prime A very ancient river which was waa burled buried miles beneath the surface up heaved and again exposed to light the age of reptiles the desert age sea bea desert and fresh water deposits 10 the ancient sea agos ages of perpetual summer the ago of and coal plants the age of fishes the age of in continued on page 8 LI III alf J fi 61 continued I 1 rom page 7 vertebrate animals ages tit of unknown life the azoic or life 1080 age 11 A review of 1 barths history and d progress A review hack back from the unknown to the known 12 man in ills his relation to tile earth mans unlimited powers and the earth 9 boundless resources for a textbook scott a I 1 introduction to geology Is recommended but any modern rooi lern textbook con can be used the tha time and place or places of meeting will be announced later |