Irruvidimento del bordo dell'accumulo di fori per perno. È estremamente semplice costituito solo da quattro rettangoli di alberi fossili nel Museo Nazionale di Washington. Lo Smithsonian Institution ha ricevuto da Fort Win gate Mexic nuova vettura un carico di curiosità tra cui por zioni di due alberi di pietra uno dal quartiere di Fort altri dalle rive del Lithodendron 20 miglia da molle Navajoe Arizona. Per questi campioni massivi il museo è in debito con la premura di General Sherman wh mentre attraversano il continente in 1878 ha suggerito al colonnello Swaine poi in
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roughening of the board by the accumulation of pin holes. It is exceedingly simple consisting only of four rectangular The Fossil Trees in the National Museum Washington. The Smithsonian Institution has received from Fort Win gate New Mexic a car load of curiosities including por tions of two stone trees one from the neighborhood of the Fort the other from the banks of the Lithodendron 20 miles from Navajoe Springs Arizona. For these massive specimens the museum is indebted to the thoughtfulness of General Sherman wh while crossing the continent in 1878 suggested to Colonel Swaine then in command at Fort Wingate the expediency of securing them. Acting upon this suggestion an expedition was organized early in the spring of 1879 to proceed to the Lithodendron (stone trees) in Arizona. Thomas V. Kearns a gentleman of long residence in that part of the country and familiar with the locality to be explored kindly volunteered his ser vices and success was in a great measure due to his efforts in carrying out the wishes of the General. The military de tail consisted of Second Lieut. J. T. C. Hegewald one ser geant and twelve soldiers all of the Fifteenth United States Infantry and the party was well supplied with army wagon running gears specially arranged for hauling stone and with tools and appliances complete. In his report of the expedition Lieutenant Hegewald says that the Navajoes who were pasturing their sheep about the head waters of the Lithodendron thought it very strange that the 'Great Father in Washington' should want some of the bones of the 'Great Giant' their forefathers had killed wood placed at an angle. The paper when mounted is firmly secured and cannot lose its grip as from the angu lar position of the laths they act as a powerful circular wedge against the paper by the contraction of the latter in drying. In mounting the paper it is first wetted on the board in the usual way and a piece % in. square is cut out of each corner; its edges are then placed
