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DATE: Saturday, February 15, 1997            TAG: 9702190014
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B-10 EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: MARION

PALEONTOLOGY TALK PLANNED IN MARION

A speaker from the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville will talk about recent discoveries in Saltville and elsewhere in Virginia by paleontologists at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

Nicholas Fraser, the museum's curator of vertebrate paleontology, will describe key fossil sites in the state and explain their global significance.

His lecture will be at the Smyth-Bland Regional Library in Marion and is open to the public.

It is part of a quarterly lecture series sponsored by the Saltville-based Museum of the Middle Appalachians.

The museum project recently received $6,000 toward its realization from the Olin Corp. Charitable Trust, which operated a chemical production plant in Saltville until 1972.

"Olin's employees, past and present, are enthused about a museum in our region," said Lowell McAllister, Olin's Saltville site supervisor.

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