way, Mason; also wooden sand shaker; black straw bonnet, china match safe; candle mould; twenty-eight marriage certificates.

Presented by Miss Mary Brockway, Mason, Mich., glass tumber; brown jug; pieces of bric-a-brac; match safe; glass bottle; tallow candle; bone handled knife. English Bible of 1874, presented by Mrs. Sabrina P. Ayers.

Book on Solomon's temple (1840), presented by Anne Bobins.

Hymnal, owned by Alvah Holmes, brought to Michigan in 1860, bought in 1853. Picture, Detroit and Michigan Methodist Conferences, presented by Mrs. E. M. Brockway, Mason.

Received from Mrs. Ellen Judson, picture, photograph of brown pottery, copy of Co. F. Enterprise, published in Santiago, July 26, 1898.

Bound book from Missouri Historical Society.

Pamphlet, "Founder of St. Louis," Missouri Historical Society.

Portrait of Charles J. Walker, presented by the Board of Correction and Charities, also portrait of F. H. Rankin.

ARTICLES PRESENTED THE SOCIETY AT THE JUNE MEETING, 1910

Badge presented by Mr. George Dallas Sidman, worn by him when visiting McKinley in the spring of 1898; badge worn at the unveiling of the Custer monument, Monroe, Mich., June 4, 1910, with picture of Gen. Custer.

Presented by Mrs. N. F. Jenison, post card picture of boulder marking location of the first house at Tecumseh, Mich., erected by Musgrove Evans and wife, June 2, 1824.

Presented by (Mrs.) Dr. Blanche Haines, Three Rivers, two pictures of skeletons. Presented by Mr. Clarence Frost, Adrian, Mich., strap rail used by the Michigan Southern Railroad, from 1835-52.

Presented by Mrs. Maria Miles, Mrs. Carey's daughter, umbrella given to Mrs. Carey by Abraham Lincoln in the year 1864.

Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt's collection, presented to the society:

One china vase, white with gilt decorations, handle on each side, white leaves in relief.

One china celery tray, green leaf shape, with brown veins.

One earthern tea pot, man with costume of red, green and tan.

One blue china box, about eight inches long, medallion in center of cover, with man's head in medallion, white and gilt trimming.

One white Ridgway syrup pitcher with metal top.

One Tom Thumb pitcher (Parian marble), decorations in relief.

China ornament, figure of a man, handle projecting from center, receptacle for holding things on each side.

Presented by W. E. Crotty, engraving of the Battle of Gettysburg, taken from the painting shown in the Cyclorama, which cost $40,000.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1910

To the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society:
I herewith submit my annual report, as follows:

Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt, Fire Place Collection...

Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt, Brown Collection

291 23

515 00

Balance on hand June 1st, 1910

$2,745 15 264 36

B. F. DAVIS,

Treasurer.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

Byron A. Finney, Reference Librarian of the University of Michigan presented a report as delegate from this Society to the American Historical Association, as follows:

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Permit ma to report without detail that the section of the American Historical Association "On the problems of State and local historical societies" held a meeting in the hall of the house of delegates at Richmond, Va., Thursday forenoon, December 31st, at which some dozen or more societies were represented. I was the only representative from our Michigan Society. The chairman was Evarts B. Greene, professor in the University of Illinois, and secretary, St. George Sioussat, professor in the University of the South. The program was as follows:

(a) Report of committee on Co-operation among Historical Societies, by Dunbar Rowland, director of the Department of Archives and History, Mississippi.

(b) The Application of Photography to Archive and Historical Work, by Waldo G. Leland, Carnegie Institution, of Washington.

(c) Historical Exhibitions, by Albert C. Myers, secretary of the Pennsylvania History Club.

The conclusion of the committee on Co-operation was that the best thing that could be undertaken by the Historical Societies interested would be the printing or reproducing by photography of the principal documents connected with the history of the Mississippi Valley. Mr. Leland, who has been representing the Carnegie Institution in the records of France relating to America, within the past year, gave a very clear exposition of the convenience and value of the use of photography in reproducing documents, and showed by a few examples that quite a percentage of our reprinted documents were in some respects untrustworthy on that account. It was thought that the Canadian government would have to check over very carefully a large portion of its documents. Prof. Jameson of the Carnegie Institution supplemented Mr. Rowland's report for the committee by explaining that the expense of the proposed co-operative work of the Mississippi Valley was estimated at about $2,000. They thought that if they could get ten societies to join in the project it might be carried out. Mr. Roland of Mississippi said that that State would contribute $200 towards the undertaking. Mr. Owen said that Alabama would contribute $200. A member from Nebraska thought perhaps Nebraska would be able to put about $100 into it. Mr. Thwaites from Wisconsin said that they could depend on $200 from

that State. I stated that I was not authorized to say anything definite for the Michigan Society, but I felt quite sure that we would be able somehow to enter into the subscription. Illinois State Society has some doubts as to their being able to devote anything from their finances. In talking with Prof. Jameson later, he thought that the Chicago Historical Society might go into it. Perhaps something may be expected from Ohio and Missouri. It seems that the work cannot be undertaken unless $2,000 is assured, and you will probably have communication from Secretary Sioussat or the committee on co-operation, which was continued, asking assistance and explaining more fully the reasons and probable value of the work. It seems to me that by going into this we will get documents valuable to our own State and avoid more duplication of work. In that respect it might be an economy to enter into this cooperative project.

In connection with the matter, it is asked by this committee that projects for reprinting of documents by local societies may be delayed or held in abeyance for a while until the question of photographic reproduction may have been considered and the proposed co-operative project determined.

Mr. Finney also presented the following report:

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATUE FOR STATUARY HALL

At the annual meeting of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, in June, 1909, a committee consisting of Byron A. Finney, Ann Arbor; Edward Cahill, Lansing, and Joseph Greusel, Detroit, was appointed to take into consideration the advisability of the suggestion to the State legislation by this Society of a statue for Michigan's remaining niche in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. By the act of Congress establishing this hall as a national gallery, each State was entitled to two statues. Most of the States have already placed one and some of them two statues in this hall. The legislature of Michigan has placed there one statute, that of Governor Lewis Cass (in 1889), but has not yet selected the other.

One name considered by your committee, that of Father James Marquette, was found to have been already chosen by Wisconsin in 1895. That State has not yet chosen its second statue. Many names were considered by the committee, among them being the following: Senator Chandler, Governor Blair, Father Pierce, Judge Cooley, Cadillac, Pontiac, General Custer, Governor Mason, President Angell, Peter White,

Governor Felch, Governor Alger, Senator McMillan, Senator Palmer, Major Gladwin, Judge Campbell, and others.

The committee did not feel justified in reporting the name of any living person and could not agree on any man in the past history of the State whose prominence and influence seemed to warrant the proposal of his name for this statue with any prospect of such recommendation being accepted favorably by the legislature.

Mr. Greusel of the committee was strongly in favor of Major Gladwin and his reasons therefor may properly be included in this as a minority report: "With here and there an exception the masses of our own people and the entire population, one might say of the country outside the limits of the State, regard Michigan as being of very recent creation, as far as concerns its organized government. Most people date it from 1837, others go back to 1812, and only here and there a student of history knows aught of the anterior government. It might be worth while to correct these listless and inaccurate ideas concerning established civil government in Michigan, and make more prominent the historical fact that our peninsulas were a Crown colony of Great Britain, and before that, of France. Actual colonization received little encouragement under the French regime. It was different with the English. On that account let us go back to 1760, and conspicuously to 1763, and select Major Henry Gladwin, commandant at Detroit, and civil governor. This Gladwin was a soldier in Braddock's army. He learned from Washington lessons in Indian warfare. These lessons stood him in good stead at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac, 1763-4. The figure of Gladwin would please the artistic taste and lend itself well to sculpture. The old style knee breeches and hose, buckled shoes, ribboned garters, ruffled shirt and lace wristbands; and such a picturesque, long flowing and embroidered coat as we are accustomed to see in the pictures of Washington. The figure of this man thus arrayed, with the insignia of his army rank, his sword, his chapeau, and his long hair in a beribboned queue, would arrest the attention of visitors to Statuary Hall. It would be picturesque beyond anything else that is there, and most worthy in an artistic sense. The remark of the stranger would be 'Who is that? and the answer, Major Gladwin, commandant at Detroit in 1763, at the siege by Pontiac,' would fix a historical date, and prove the extent of our history as antedating the Declaration of Independence."

Your committee, therefore, realizing that the near future may bring men prominent enough for this nomination, although perhaps favorable to the remembrance of a representative of our earlier history, beg leave to report that they do not think best to make a definite recommendation for Michigan's second statue at this time, and would ask to be discharged from further consideration of the subject.