HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

A chapter on The Early History of the Educational Institutions of New Jersey, by F. B. Dwight, leads in the July, 1906, issue of the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society.

Relations with Cuba, by Luis M. Perez; More Race Problem Literature, by A. H. Stone; and Paul Jones, by Stephen B. Weeks appear in the Publications of the Southern History Association, for July, 1906.

The two leading contributions in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association for July, 1906, are: The Louisiana-Texas Frontier, by I. J. Cox; and Land Speculation as a Cause of the Texas Revolution, by Eugene C. Barker.

Journal of a Voyage to Nova Scotia Made in 1731 by Robert Hale of Beverly is to be found in the Essex Institute Historical Collections for July, 1906. This journal is printed from the original manuscript now in the possession of the American Antiquarian Society.

The July, 1906, issue of The Virginia Magazine begins volume XIV. The leading contributions are: Journals of the Council of Virginia in Executive Sessions, 1737-1763; Revolutionary Army Orders for the Main Army under Washington, 1778-1779; Virginia Legislative Papers; and Virginia Gleanings in England.

Bulletin number 11 of the Illinois State Historical Library, June 1, 1906, contains the Laws of the Territory of Illinois, 1809-1811, edited by Clarence W. Alvord. This is a publication of thirty-four pages and includes all the recently discovered old laws, and as a result the legislative records of the State are now complete.

Some articles bearing on Kentucky history are to be found in the Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, for September,

1906. The titles are: Governor Beriah Magoffin, by Jennie C. Morton; General Joseph Montfort Street, by George Wilson; George Rogers Clark, by Z. F. Smith; and History of the Kentucky Historical Society, by J. W. Townsend.

The Records and Papers of the New London County (Connecticut) Historical Society, volume III, part 1, was distributed in August, 1906. This publication is mainly a history and dedication of the monument to Governor John Winthrop, the younger, erected in the city, which he founded, A. D., 1646, by the State of Connecticut, at New London, May 6, 1905.

The papers in the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly for July, 1906, are: Stanton the Patriot, by Andrew Carnegie; Salmon P. Chase, by Joseph B. Foraker; and General George A. Custer, by R. M. Voorhees. This number also contains the Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, held June 9, 1906.

1906.

The second issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine is for June, This issue contains a second installment on Early County Seats of Baltimore County, by Albert Ritchie; Reminiscences of Baltimore in 1824, by J. H. B. Latrobe; Richard Ingle in Maryland, by Henry F. Thompson; The Battle of Bladensburg, by A. K. Hadel; and the Log of the Chasseur, by Thomas Boyle.

William F. Coolbaugh, by J. T. Remey; Biographical Memoir of Charles Christopher Parry, by Charles A. White; Iowa Under Territorial Governments and the Removal of the Indians, by Alonzo Abernethy; and Whence Came the Pioneers of Iowa? by F. I. Herriott are the articles in the July, 1906, Annals of Iowa. Portraits are given of W. F. Coolbaugh, C. C. Parry, Alonzo Abernethy, and George C. Remey.

The articles in the July, 1906, number of The American Historical Review are: The Ecole des Chartes, by J. T. Shotwell; The England of Our Forefathers, by Edward P. Cheyney; The Later American Policy of George Canning, by H. W. V. Temperley; The

Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts, by Ulrich B. Phillips; and Gaps in the Published Records of United States History, by J. F. Jameson.

The annual report of The Connecticut Historical Society for the year ending May, 1906, was issued the following July. From this report it is found that the membership of the Society aggregates 411. The library increased in accessions over the previous year by about twenty per cent, the total, exclusive of manuscripts, amounting to 1,621 titles. The Society has in its library over sixteen hundred eighteenth century Connecticut imprints. In all lines the Society reports a prosperous growth.

The Dubuque County Early Settlers' Association has issued a pamphlet which contains a brief sketch of Iowa and of Dubuque County, the constitution of the Association, some biographical stories of Julien Dubuque, a song for the early settlers, and the names of the members of the Association from the date of the organization, June 10, 1865, to August 1, 1906. The total membership since organization is 738, the present membership is 457. Of the thirty-two members of 1865 none are living. The present officers are William Quigley, president; Alexander Simplot, secretary; and Philip Pier, treas

urer.

The Proceedings of the Wisconsin Historical Society for 1905 is a volume of nearly three hundred pages. The included historical papers are: Some Historic Sites About Green Bay, by Arthur C. Neville; Narratives of Early Wisconsin Travellers Prior to 1800, by H. E. Legler; The Impeachment of Levi Hubbell, by J. B. Sanborn; John Scott Horner: A Biographical Sketch, by E. H. Merrell; First Constitutional Convention in Wisconsin, 1846, by F. L. Holmes; Slavery in the Old Northwest, by Raymond V. Phelan; and Pioneer Life in the Fox River Valley, by A. S. McLenegan.

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, volume x, parts I and II bear the imprint, February, 1905, but the volumes

apparently were not distributed until in July, 1906. The historical papers in part I are: History of Wheat Raising in the Red River Valley, by G. N. Lamphere; History of Flour Manufacture in Minnesota, by George D. Rogers; The Early Government Land Sur veys in Minnesota West of the Mississippi River, by Thomas Simpson; Sketches of the History of Hutchinson, by W. W. Pendergast; Early Steamboating on the Minnesota and Red Rivers, by Edwin Bell; The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, under Governor Alexander Ramsey, with Notes on the Former Treaty there in 1841, Under Governor James D. Doty, of Wisconsin, by Thomas Hughes; History of Steamboating on the Minnesota River, by Thomas Hughes; Missionary Work at Red Wing, 1849 to 1852, by Joseph W. Hancock; History of Fort Ripley, 1849 to 1859, based on the Diary of Rev. Solon W. Manney, D. D., Chaplain of this Post from 1851 to 1859, by G. C. Tanner; Early Episcopal Churches and Missions in Minnesota, by G. C. Tanner; The Chapel of St. Paul and the Beginnings of the Catholic Church in Minnesota, by Ambrose McNulty; Minnesota Journalism in the Territorial Period, by D. S. B. Johnston; History of Education in Minnesota, by David L. Kiehle; History of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad, 1864–1881, by Judson W. Bishop; Sketches of the Early History of Real Estate in St. Paul, by Henry S. Fairchild; and The First Railroad in Minnesota, by William Crooks.

The papers in part II are: Groseilliers and Radisson, the First White Men in Minnesota, 1655–56, and 1659–60, and Their Discovery of the Upper Mississippi River, by Warren Upham; A Sioux Narrative of the Outbreak in 1862, and of Sibley's Expedition in 1863, by Gabriel Renville; Biographic Sketch of Chief Renville, by S. J. Brown; The Work of the Second State Legislature, 1859-60, by John B. Sanborn; The Old Government Mills at the Falls of St. Anthony, by Edward A. Bromley; Lumbering and Steamboating on the St. Croix River, by Edward W. Durant; and Minnesota's Eastern, Southern, and Western Boundaries, by A. N. Winchell. Quite a list of memorial addresses follow, also short sketches of the

deceased members of the Society for 1901-1904. Two indexes are included for the first ten volumes of the series. The two volumes

are printed on remarkably poor paper.

Volume XI, part 1, of the Collections is a well printed and well illustrated volume containing a monograph on Itasca State Park, written by J. V. Brower. The volume bears the imprint, 1904, but seems not to have been distributed until July, 1906.

The thirteenth biennial report of the Society for the period ending December 31, 1904, was issued in 1905. The report states that the library comprises 77,684 volumes, an increase of 5,358 during the biennial period. The collection of newspapers amount to 6,526 volumes. The Society has a total membership of 355.

ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the year 1905 appeared in September, 1906, as a five hundred page octavo volume. Besides the records of the official proceedings of the Society a number of historical papers are included, some of which are: Father Gibault: The Patriot Priest of the Northwest, by J. P. Dunn; Social Life and Scenes in the Early Settlement of Central Illinois, by James Haines; St. Clair County, by J. N. Perrin; General James Semple, by Mary Cushman; The Value to Both of a Closer Connection between the State Historical Society and the Public Schools, by Henry McCormick; Bishop Chase and Jubilee College, by C. W. Leffingwell; The Bloomington Convention of 1856 and those Who Participated in it, by J. O. Cunningham; Ancient Fort Chartres, by Homer Mead; Dr. George Cadwell, by R. W. Mills; Palestine, Its Early History, by J. C. Allen; Old Kaskaskia Days and Ways, by Stuart Brown; An Appeal on the Question of a Convention, by Morris Birkbeck; A Contribution toward a Bibliography of Morris Birkbeck, by C. W. Smith; A Narrative of Military Experience in Several Capacities, by Edward Everett; Early History of the Drug Trade of Chicago, by A. E. Ebert; Puritan Influences in the Formative Years of Illinois History, by C. P. Kofoid; Captain Thomas J. Robinson, by McKendree H. Chamberlin; and Forgotten Statesmen of Illinois, Hon. Conrad Will, by John F. Snyder.