delivered before the society by Frank R. Grover. Stone implements, Indian trees, traces of Indian trails, camps and villages, to be found along the lake shore to the north of Chicago are described, and a few photographs are inserted.

The annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Historical Society was held at Madison on November 9. Two sessions were held, that in the afternoon being devoted to business and reports. The report of the superintendent showed an addition in the last year of over 12,500 titles to the library, the estimated strength of which is at present about 272,500 titles. Among the publications of the society now in preparation none will be of more interest and importance than a report on the manuscript collections possessed by the society, which will include mention of important manuscript material to be found in Wisconsin. At the evening session several papers were read: "Historic Sites Around Green Bay", by Arthur C. Neville; "Duluth, the Fur-Trader ", by Henry Colin Campbell; "Early Wisconsin Travels Prior to

by Henry E. Legler; and "The Impeachment of Judge Hubbell ", by Dr. John B. Sanborn.

The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin, by Professor Benjamin H. Hibbard, published over a year ago as Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 101, marks a beginning in a new field of American economic history. In Part I. early conditions are described, the immigration of settlers, the purchase of land from the government, the selection of land, the difficulties of early farming, the monopoly of wheat as a crop, and the problem of transportation. In Part II. the transition from simple to complex agriculture is indicated, the history of hops and tobacco growing, and the rise of the dairy industry are treated and consideration is given to the size of farms, land values and density of population.

In the Thirteenth Biennial Report of the Minnesota Historical Society should be noted a full list of the contents of the eleven volumes of the society's Collections.

The October number of the Annals of Iowa contains a short sketch of Judge Joseph Williams by Edward H. Stiles, and the conclusion of Ida M. Street's article, composed largely of documents, on "The Simon Cameron Indian Commission of 1838". The principal contribution to this number is a lengthy biographical account of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, by T. J. Fitzpatrick. Rafinesque, who was born in Constantinople in 1783 and died in Philadelphia in 1840, was one of the early investigators in the field of American natural history, whose fame is entirely incommensurate with his services.

"The Early Swedish Immigration to Iowa", by George T. Flom, is the single paper of historical import in the Iowa Journal of History and Politics for October.

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The Missouri Historical Society has recently obtained from Spain a number of transcripts of documents of considerable historical value, and from the National Archives of Cuba two elaborate censuses of St. Louis and its districts in 1787 and 1791, discovered there by Mr. Luis M. Pérez in the course of his searches on behalf of the Carnegie Institution.

The Historical Department of the University of Oregon is planning a co-operative bibliography of the history of the Northwest.

Vikings of the Pacific, by Miss Agnes C. Laut (Macmillan), is a companion volume to her Pathfinders of the West. It is biographical in form and deals with the adventures and discoveries of Bering, Gray, Cook, Vancouver, Benyowsky, Drake, and Ledyard.

In the March and June issues of the Oregon Historical Society's Quarterly should be noted "The Higher Significance in the Lewis and Clark Expedition ", by F. G. Young; "The Story of Lewis and Clark's Journals", by Reuben Gold Thwaites; "Origin of Pacific University", by James R. Robertson; and "The Political Beginnings of Washington Territory", by Thomas W. Prosch. An interesting document commenced in the March number is "Dr. John Scouler's Journal of a Voyage to N. W. America"; Dr. Scouler was ship surgeon on the Hudson Bay Company's vessel "William and Anne" and his journal is from July, 1824, to the early part of 1826.

Principal William I. Marshall of Chicago has recently published a thirty-six page pamphlet, bearing the title The Hudson's Bay Company's Archives Furnish no Support to the Whitman Saved Oregon Story, in which "seven pure fictions of the Whitmanites" are set forth and the entire absence of any supporting evidence demonstrated.

We are glad to note that a movement is under foot in California to secure scientific treatment of the public records of the state. A committee of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, of which Professor C. A. Duniway was chairman, was appointed to investigate the condition of the archives and recommend measures for their preservation. They conferred with the governor and other officials of the state, and after an examination of the records recommended that such of the archives as are mainly of historical value should be placed in the State Library, where they should be arranged, catalogued, and made accessible. It is to be hoped that the legislation necessary to carry out the recommendation of the committee will be effected by the next legislature.

An interesting contribution, not without value, to California history is George Wharton James's In and About the Old Missions of California (Little, Brown and Company). A general history of the missions is followed by accounts of individual missions in which history and description are combined. The author does not claim originality for his work except in the chapter on the Indians and their relations to the missions, and in the purely descriptive chapters.

Those who are interested in the history of the Philippines will be glad to learn that the Archivo del Bibliófilo Filipino, four volumes of which appeared between 1895 and 1898, is to be continued under its . former editor, Señor W. E. Retana. The purpose of the work is to publish such original sources as are now inaccessible outside the archives and libraries of Europe, bibliographies relating to the Philippines, and results of research in Philippine history. The fifth volume, which is now in press, will contain documents dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, political and scientific studies by J. Rizal, and a bibliography. It is published by the house of V. Suárez, Madrid.

During the latter part of the year some five volumes relating to the Philippines have appeared. Our Philippine Policy, by Henry Parker Willis (Holt), is not historical but is a criticism of the insular policy of the government by a bitter opponent. Two of the volumes are mainly descriptive, but with brief historical accounts: Philippine Life in Town and Country, by James A. LeRoy (Putnam's Sons), and The Philippine Islands, by Fred W. Atkinson, first general superintendent of education in the Philippines (Ginn and Company). Both are well illustrated and entertainingly written by men familiar with their subjects. The remaining volumes are wholly historical and are designed for school use. A History of the Philippines, by David P. Barrows, general superintendent of public instruction (American Book Company), is to serve as an introduction to the study of the history of Malaysia; but a comparatively small part of the 320-page book is devoted to American control. Much the same should be said respecting Prescott F. Jernegan's A Short History of the Philippines (Appleton).

Dr. A. G. Doughty's second report as Archivist of the Dominion of Canada will contain a summary of the documents relating to that country in the Depot of Fortifications in Paris; also a very interesting journal of Jean La Roque, written in 1752.

The first publications of the recently organized Champlain Society will be a volume on Seigneurial Tenures and a volume of the Cartwright Papers.

The most recent additions to the "Makers of Canada" series (Toronto, Morang) are Champlain, by N. E. Dionne, and Mackenzie, Selkirk and Simpson, by Reverend George Bryce.

Volume XII. of the Nova Scotia Historical Society's Collections is made up of three biographical sketches by James S. Macdonald: "Hon. Edward Cornwallis, Founder of Halifax", "Life and Administration of Governor Charles Lawrence", and “Richard Bulkeley". Each is based on original research and is accompanied by a portrait, that of Cornwallis, taken from the only known and recently discovered picture, at Gibraltar, being especially noteworthy.

The Bureau of American Ethnology has published as Bulletin 28 (58 Cong., 3 Sess., Ho. Doc. 477) a volume on Mexican and Central

American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History, a collection of twenty-four papers by Eduard Seler, E. Förstemann, Paul Schellhas, Carl Sapper, and E. P. Dieseldorff, translated from the German under the supervision of Charles P. Bowditch.

A German contribution to South American studies is Die Mythen und Legenden der südamerikanischen Urvölker und ihre Beziehungen zu denen Nordamerikas und der alten Welt, by P. Ehrenreich (Berlin, A. Asher u. Co).

Noteworthy articles in periodicals: V. Bellemo, Su due Errori nei Viaggi dei Caboto e sul Cosmografo Salvat[ore] de Pilestrine (Nuovo Archivio Veneto, N. S., Vol. IX., Part 1); Martin I. J. Griffin, The Commodores of the Navy of the United Colonies: Hopkins, Jones, Barry (Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, November); C. O. Paullin, The Administration of the Continental Navy of the American Revolution (Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Volume XXXI.); William MacDonald, The Fame of Franklin (Atlantic Monthly, October); Rear-Admiral S. B. Luce, Commodore Biddle's Visit to Japan in 1846 (Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, September); M. A. De Wolfe Howe, ed., Letters and Diaries of George Bancroft, II. Student Days in Europe, III. Paris from 1847 to 1849 (Scribner's Magazine, October, November); Calvin Dill Wilson, Black Masters: A Side-Light on Slavery (North American Review, November); Frederick Trevor Hill, Lincoln the Lawyer, I. (Century Magazine, December); William Garrott Brown, The Tenth Decade of the United States, V. Andrew Johnson and "My Policy" (Atlantic, December); Frederick E. Snow, Unpublished Letters of Horace Greeley (Independent, October 19); Carl Schurz, Reminiscences of a Long Life, II. (McClure's Magazine, December); Joseph Schafer, Sources of Northwestern History (Library Journal, October); Melvin G. Dodge, California as a Place of Residence for the Scholar (Library Journal, October); Bryan J. Clinch, The Destruction of the California Missions (The American Catholic Quarterly Review, October); W. E. Retana, Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal (Nuestro Tiempo, November); G. O. Bent, The Dutch Conquest of Acadia (Acadiensis, October); A. McF. Davis, Emergent Treasury-Supply in Massachusetts in Early Days (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, N. S., XVII, 1).

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THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AT BALTIMORE

T is the established practice of the American Historical Association to hold its annual meeting one year in an eastern city, one year in a western city, and the third year in Washington, which, according to the charter, is the official headquarters. Now that East and West have come to be terms of such dubious import, it may be well to explain that the geographical centre of the membership is nearly at Pittsburgh, so that eastern must be taken to mean farther east, western farther west, than that town. Since Baltimore, so near the Capital, would run little chance of being selected as the meeting-place of a year immediately after a Washington meeting, and since many annual meetings have been held in the latter city and none in Baltimore, it was agreed that the meeting of December, 1905, normally a Washington meeting, should be held chiefly in Baltimore, with a supplementary session in Washington. The American Economic Association, the American Political Science Association, instituted two years ago, and the still newer Bibliographical Society of America also held their annual meetings in Baltimore at the same time.

The hospitality for which Baltimore has long been noted was abundantly manifested, both in the social entertainments themselves and in the careful preparations which had been made beforehand for the comfort and convenience of the guests by the local committee of arrangements, and especially by Mr. Theodore Marburg, its chairman, and by Professor John M. Vincent of the Johns Hopkins University, chairman of the committee on programme. There was a reception of the gentlemen of the associations at the house of Mr. Theodore Marburg, and at the same hours a reception of the ladies at the house of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America; a "smoker" on the next evening, and simultaneously

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