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Show Fossils of Oldest Trees Found it i i ' 1 :H 4 : -.:V' I .f i,,. : l n o ' , l A valuable fossilized 'ollection of the oldest known trees, ferns and rootlets, that nourished 100,000,000 years ago and were uncovered at Oilboa. N. Y., in the construction of a large dam, has been received at the Field museum in Chicago. This collection, which was at the height of its growth during the Devonian period, which antedated the coal or carbonaceous period contains specimens of seed-bearing ferns which reached the enormous height of fifty feet or more. One mass of rocks, in the form of a tree stump, is eighteen inches In diameter and bears the imprint of the tree-covering of thai age. |