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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Vol. XXV, 1918 



The foregoing: sketches will, it is hoped, have demonstrated 

 the truthfulness of the statement made earlier, that Des Moines 

 valley offers abundance of sites for public parks and well merits 

 the attention and interest of all who are concerned, from what- 

 ever point of view, in perpetuatiuir the natural beauties of our 



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J.' ii4. 1^2. — The valley wall at Croton, Lee county, from the Missouri side. 



state. What is needed is intelligent co-operation among all who 

 have it in their power to see that Iowa remains in deed and in 

 truth what her fir.st citizens called her — Beautiful Land. 



Iowa Geological Survey, 

 Des Moines. 



