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Show Bif; Tree Forests Once Stood Over Eastern U. S. Great forests of sequoia trees, related re-lated to the I'.ig Trees of California and the coast redwoods of the Pacific Pa-cific slope, once stood over most of ; what is now the United States. New , finds of their remains have recenth been made, and are new In possession posses-sion of the Smithsonian institution in Washington, where they are being studied by Dr. R. V. F.rown of the United States Geological Survey. One lot of specimens consists of an ancient driftwood deposit found in Maryland, near Washington, and the other is of sequoia cones from the Cannonball river region in North Dakota. No cones were found in the .Maryland deposit, hut it is considered con-sidered likely that some of the logs are of redwood; sequoia cones have been found in other Maryland deposits. de-posits. The trees in both collections I are of Cretaceous geological nee. about 120,000,000 years ago. Science Service. 3 |