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nosaur, and South Dakota's mine of prehistoric plants 

 known as Fossil Cycad, conserve the best of their 

 kind perhaps in any land. The Pinnacles in Cali- 

 fornia and Bryces Canyon in Utah are remarkable 

 examples of erosion, the latter extraordinary for its 

 carving and coloring. Among the several vast gla- 

 cial amphitheatres on the coast of Alaska, Glacier 

 Bay is unsurpassed. 



A very wonderful opportunity, this, for devel- 

 oping a natural geologic museum of broad scope and 

 magnificence ! 



Of our three National Monuments conserving 

 wild life, Muir Woods and Papago Saguaro offer a 

 striking contrast. The one preserves the last re- 

 maining redwood grove, beloved of John Muir, on 

 San Francisco Bay, and the other preserves a gen- 

 erous sample of the rich desert, with its giant cacti, 

 of southern Arizona. 



Geographically, one territory and nineteen 

 states possess these National Monuments, as fol- 

 lows : Alaska, 3 ; Arizona, 1 1 ; California, 5 ; Colo- 

 rado, 4; Georgia, i ; Florida, 2; Idaho, i ; Maryland, 

 I ; Montana, 2 ; Nebraska, i ; New Mexico, 8 ; New 

 York, 2; North Dakota, i; Ohio, i; Oregon, i; 

 South Carolina, i ; South Dakota, i ; Tennessee, i ; 

 Utah, 5 ; Washington, i ; and Wyoming, 2 ; 



That so haphazard a collection of fifty-eight 

 units selected at odd intervals during twenty-two 

 years by a number of scores of men in different De- 

 partments of the government mostly unknown to 



