for graduation at the New York State Library School by Mr. Malcolm G. Wyer, and Miss Charlotte E. Graves in 1903. For the past two years Mr. Wyer has been Acting Librarian of The State University of Iowa, and in June, 1906, was promoted to the position of Librarian in that institution. Mr. Wyer is a member of The State Historical Society of Iowa.

The articles appearing in the January-March, 1906, number of the American Anthropologist are: Relics of Early Man in Western Switzerland, by D. I. Bushnell; A Stone Ruin at Së-tsak, Guatemala, by Robert Burkitt; Cayenne Stream Names, by G. B. Grinnell; The Powhatan Name for Virginia, by W. W. Looker; A Puberty Ceremony of the Mission Indians, by Horatio N. Rust; A Remarkable Pipe from Northwestern America, by H. I. Smith; Notes on the Pima of Arizona, by Arles Hrdlicka; Traditions of Precolumbian Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions in Western South America, by Adolph F. Bandelier; Tang-ga, Philippine Pa-mà-to Game, by A. E. Jenks; The Sun's Influence on the Form of Hopi Pueblos, by J. W. Fewkes; Certain Notched or Scalloped Stone Tablets of the Mound Builders, by W. H. Holmes; Preservation of American Antiquities; Progress During the Last Year; Needed Legislation, by E. L. Hewett; Houses and Gardens of the New England Indians, by C. C. Willoughby; Some Unsolved Problems in Mexican Archeology, by Zelia Nuttall; and Hjalmar Stolpe, by Stewart Culin. This number begins volume VIII.

IOWANA

The Quarterly Bulletin of the Iowa Masonic Library begins its ninth year and volume with the February, 1906, number.

An epitome of The University Lectures on Practical Ethics was issued in May, 1906, as an eight page reprint from the May number of The Iowa Alumnus.

The first annual report of the Iowa State Highway Commission for the year ending July 1, 1905, was distributed in April, 1906.

This publication is an illustrated pamphlet of seventy-four pages. The subjects considered are road laws, previous work, organization of the Commission, and the work of the Commission.

The Proceedings of the sixteenth annual meeting of the Iowa Library Association, which was held at Fort Dodge, October 25-27, 1905, are published in the Quarterly of the Iowa Library Commission for January, 1906.

Professor F. C. Ensign's address on County and City Prisons in Iowa, given before the Iowa State Conference of Charities and Correction at Marshalltown, Iowa, November 9, 1905, has appeared in the form of a neat little reprint.

Professor H. G. Plum, of The State University of Iowa, has contributed a monograph on The Teutonic Order and its Secularization to the series of Iowa Studies in Sociology, Economics, Politics, and History, published by The State University of Iowa.

The Proceedings of the Iowa Good Roads Association for June 15-16, 1905, has been issued as a pamphlet of about sixty pages. The President of the Association is H. H. Harlow, of Onawa, and Thomas H. MacDonald, of Ames, is the Secretary.

The Work of the Boardman Library, by Harvey Reid, is the title of an article which appeared in The Excelsior (Maquoketa, Iowa), March 30, 1906. Mr. Reid gives a sketch of the founding of the library, its objects and aims, and some of the interesting titles of works to be found in the various departments.

Memories of Frontier Iowa, by George C. Duffield, is an illustrated pamphlet of fifty-four pages issued in 1906, in a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies. The subject matter in the main deals with the early history of Van Buren County. The pamphlet is written in a delightfully entertaining manner.

Palo Alto County, Iowa, celebrated its semi-centennial anniversary at Emmetsburg, Iowa, July 4, 5, and 6, 1906. A neat little souvenir program was issued by the committee in charge, containing an historical sketch of the county, by Mr. Dwight G. McCarty, a member

of The State Historical Society of Iowa, together with numerous cuts of pioneers and scenes of pioneer days. This adds another attractive Iowana item to the literature of the State.

The Norwegian Pioneer is the title of a pamphlet by Hon. Abraham Jocobson (member of the Iowa House of Representatives from Winneshiek County), which gives an account of the pioneer days of the Norwegian pioneers of Springfield Township, Winneshiek County.

The souvenir program of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 10-16, 1906, is more than a mere announcement of the time and place of the various events in the celebration. Historical sketches, statistics, and historical data relative to Cedar Rapids, make the program worthy of a place in any collection of Iowana.

A handbook on the birds of Iowa, issued in April, 1906, is entitled, 200 Wild Birds of Iowa. The author is B. H. Bailey, Professor of Zoology in Coe College, Cedar Rapids. The volume is a 16mo of ninety-six pages. The descriptions are non-technical, and sufficient for purposes of identification. There is also a color key, a key to the

birds of prey, a chapter on bird migration in Iowa, a chapter by E. Lucas Lefebure on bird protection, and migration blanks for private records.

The Fourth Biennial Report of the Board of Control of State Institutions of Iowa, being the report for the biennial period ending June 30, 1905, was distributed in May, 1906. The report is an octavo volume of 542 pages. Some of the subjects considered in this report are: General Observations Respecting the State Institutions; State Farms and Gardens; Water Supply; Fire Protection; The Insane; Dependent Children; Legislation Recommended; Appropriations; Institutional Population; and The Finance of Institutions.

The Care of the Epileptic in Institutions with the Feeble-minded and Insane, by W. A. Polglase; Food: Its Preparation and Distribution in State Institutions, by C. F. Applegate; Society's Responsibility

for the Increase of Juvenile Delinquency, by W. L. Kuser; The State Orphanage and the Future of its Inmates, by F. J. Sessions; Accounting and Reports, by A. B. McCown; Paresis, and Treatment of, by Goodrich Snow; Penal Reforms, by G. S. Robinson; Report of an Atypical Case of Paresis, by Goodrich Snow; and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, by F. W. Powers, are the leading contributions to be found in the Bulletin of Iowa Institutions for January, 1906.

The Proceedings of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association for 1905 was issued in June, 1906. This volume contains the papers and addresses delivered at the fifth annual meeting held at Des Moines, Iowa, December 11-12, 1905. Some of the principal articles are: The Present View-point of Forestry and Civic Improvement, by L. H. Pammel; How to Plant a Ten-acre Lot to Trees, from the view-point of the United States Forestry Bureau, by H. P. Baker, and from the view-point of fact in Iowa, by B. Shimek; The Farmstead: I-Its Landscape Architecture, by T. H. Macbride; The Farmstead: II-Sanitation on the Farm, by J. W. Kime; Street Trees for the Iowa Planter, by A. T. Erwin; How to Plant and Prune, by E. M. Reeves; Who Owns the Shade Trees, Anyway? by J. C. Monnett; Ants and Plant Lice, by H. F. Wickham; and The Fauna of Town and Park, by T. H. Macbride. The book contains 133 pages, is well printed, and includes eight half-tone illustrations.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

By a recent act the State legislature has appropriated $5,000 annually to the Kentucky State Historical Society. Mrs. Jennie C. Morton will serve as Secretary-Treasurer and will continue as Editor of the Register.

An extensive addition is being made to the capitol building at Montgomery, Alabama. A considerable space in this addition will be occupied by the Department of History and Archives, which has been so admirably developed by Mr. Thomas M. Owen.

The officers of the Madison County (Iowa) Historical Society for the current year are: President, H. A. Mueller; Vice-President, O. L. Evans; Secretary, Walter F. Craig; Treasurer, Ezra Brownell; and Directors, M. C. Leinard, W. H. Lewis, Wm. Brinson, and W. W. Gentry.

Within the first year of its existence, Poweshiek County (Iowa) Historical Society has held five meetings, which shows that there is a lively interest in local history. At the Brooklyn meeting Professor L. F. Parker read an interesting paper on Poweshiek, the Man. Through the efforts of the Society there has come to light the original draft of the constitution of a local claim association, with the names of the members and the records of their claims.

The Friends Historical Society is an organization founded in 1903 with Thomas Hodgkin as its first President. Membership is open to members of the Society of Friends on payment of an annual subscription of $1.25, or a life composition of $25, and to other persons on similar payment and the introduction of two members. The Society issues a quarterly Journal which is sent free to all members. respondence may be directed to either Rufus M. Jones, 1010 Arch Street, Philadelphia, or David S. Taber, 51 Fifth Avenue, New York.

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