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Posted By: Volunteer - Cathy Joynt Labath
Date: 5/31/2006 at 10:06:45

Davenport Daily Leader; Davenport, Scott, Iowa; May 1, 1896

Big Gift – The State University of Iowa, has received a rare and valuable collection of geological specimens from John Sax of Farmington, Iowa. The donation includes many specimens of antediluvian stone relics and of corals left in Van Buren county when the prehistoric seas receded southward from this section of the earth.