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Show So. Utah Museum j Of Natural History Opening Announced Southern Utah Museum of Natural Na-tural History will be officially opened to the public Thursday, June 6, according to Dr. Richard Thompson, curator. Exhibits will include archaeology, geology and biological science displays. The museum will be open daily and Sundays from 12 noon until 9 p. m. Included in the archaeology exhibits ex-hibits are tools. Jewelry, weapons and other artifacts typical of the culture and arts of the primitive inhabitants of the area. A replica repli-ca of an Indian pit house and a map showing routes taken by the early residents on trading excurislons are part of the exhibit. exhi-bit. Rocks and minerals of the area comprise part of the geology display dis-play with Columbia Mammoth and dinosaur bones and a fossil of the Ichthyosaurus Tenurostris made available to CSU by Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University included in the Paleontology section. Biological science exhibits include in-clude special displays on insect forest destroyers and deer age-dating age-dating donated to the college by the United States Forest Service and the Utah State Fish and Game Department. Other dis- j plays show representative Insect (Continued on Pag Fire) . MUSEUM OPENS (Continued from Front Page) from southern Utah, bird exhibit emphasizing foot structure, adap-tations adap-tations of animal feet, algae of southern Utah, Gila Monster skeleton and several exhibits showing native plants that were used by the Indians and early settlers for food and medicine. The displays have been arranged ar-ranged under the direction of Dr. Thompson, Dr. Wesley P. Larsen and Proffessor Laurence Cooper. They have been assisted by students Dan and Don Dennett, Den-nett, Blake and Bob Larsen, Kelly Kel-ly Dalton. Kent Wllkenson, Mar-low Mar-low Willlaiiia, Jack Lee, Jim var-ney, var-ney, Paul Smith, Dale Shaheen and Kinley Gleave. |