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Show Montana' Petrified Forest. The curator of Keoloiiy of th national na-tional museum at Washington, Dr. Merrill, ha Just returned from a tour of Montana and the northwest, whor h gntbered one of the moat lnstmo-tlv lnstmo-tlv collection that ha ranched th museum In year. Nearly everyone ha board nf th petrlfled forests of Arlinna, hut that to Montana, which Dr. Merrill baa been exploring, la hardly known. thouKh It la believed to be at least ciUiil In extent- Th northern forests have, curiously enough, turned to opal Instead of agat by th action of the oleuienta. |