Samuel Saucerman and the Trimmer Clubs, by L. F. Andrews, May 30, 1909. Lenox College - First College to Put in Chair of Agriculture, May 30, 1909. Oldest Monument to Civil War Veterans in Country is in Iowa, June 6, 1909. H. H. Griffiths and Locust Street in 1871, by L. F. Andrews, June 6, 1909. The Burlington Hawk-Eye Twenty Years Ago. (In each Sunday issue.) Appreciation of J. W. Blythe, by A. B. Funk, March 18, 1909. Pioneer Settlers of Jefferson County, Iowa, March 28, 1909. Old Time Navigators, April 4, 1909. Des Moines County in History, April 11, 1909. The Meek Brothers' Mill and the Bonaparte Dam, April 11, 1909. April 11, 1909. What the 33rd General Assembly Did, April 13, 1909. A Memory of Musical Burlington, May 2, 1909. The Sioux City Journal Twenty Years Ago, and Forty Years Ago. (In each Sunday issue.) Civil War Anecdotes, related by Iowa Veterans, March 21, 1909. New Mellary and the Trappist Monks of Dubuque, March 28, 1909. Bills Passed by the Iowa General Assembly, April 10, 1909. Mrs. Ann Dickens, of McGregor - Oldest Settler in Iowa, April 11, 1909. Passing of a Northwestern Iowa Pioneer - William Houston Woods, April 19, 1909. Senator Allison's Recollections of Public Men, by Arthur Wallace Dunn, May 9, 1909. Sketch of life of Amos Noyes Currier, May 23, 1909. The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald Sketch of History of New Mellary Monastery, March 21, 1909. Alex. Simplot Oldest Native Iowan, April 4, 1909. Work Accomplished by the 33rd General Assembly of Iowa, April 11, 1909. Dennis Ricard- An Iowan 111 Years of Age, April 25, 1909. Senator Allison's Recollections of Public Men, by Arthur Wallace Dunn, May 3, 1909. W. T. Shaw Veteran of Two Wars Died at Anamosa, May 4, 1909. Sketch of life of Father T. J. Vaughan, May 10, 1909. History of Dubuque and Dunlieth Railway Bridge, May 30, 1909. The Cedar Rapids Republican The Buffalo in Iowa, March 18, 1909. Sketch of life of Samuel Wallace Durham, May 4, 1909. The Story of an Iowa Farm, May 9, 1909. Sketch of life of Amos N. Currier, May 18, 1909. HISTORICAL SOCIETIES PUBLICATIONS The Historical Department of Iowa has issued a pamphlet containing a revised list of the oil portraits now in its possession. The January-March number of The Wisconsin Archeologist consists of an illustrated monograph on The Bird-Stone Ceremonials of Wisconsin, by Charles E. Brown. The leading article in the April number of The Medford Historical Register is one by Eliza M. Gill, entitled The Pump in the Market Place; and Other Water Supplies of Medford, Old and Modern. With the exception of a memoir of the late Joseph Bryan, written by W. Gordon McCabe, the April number of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography is devoted entirely to continuation of documentary material relative to colonial and Revolutionary history. Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper, by Reuben Gold Thwaites, is a twenty-five page reprint from the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908. Other reprints from the same publication are: The Old West, by Frederick Jackson Turner; and The British Ministry and the Treaty of Stanwix, by Clarence Walworth Alvord. Continuations of two serials have formed the sole contents of the numbers of the German American Annals issued thus far this year. These two careful studies, which when completed will be of much value, are: Germans in Texas, by Gilbert G. Benjamin; and The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent, by J. Hanno Deiler. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin has within the past six months issued a number of bulletins of information. One of them tells of recent acquisitions of labor material, another de scribes accessions to the museums, while others are devoted to lists of newspapers and periodicals received by the Society, reports of auxiliary societies, and lists of members. Contributions of a general character in the April number of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record are: Clues from English Archives Contributory to American Genealogy, by J. Henry Lea and J. R. Hutchinson; Lists of Germans from the Palatinate Who Came to England in 1709; and a list of New Brunswick Loyalists of the War of the American Revolution, by D. R. Jack. In the Proceedings of the Bostonian Society at the Annual Meeting, January 12 1909, may be found a number of addresses and papers, among which may be mentioned: Historical Museums in a Dozen Countries, by James F. Hunnewell; and The Myth of Mary Chilton, by Samuel Arthur Bent. Under the heading, Reception of a Portrait of James Otis, there is also presented some interesting material. In addition to two continuations the April number of The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine contains an article on The Luxembourg Claims, by D. E. Huger Smith, who gives a clear statement of the difficulty over the frigate "South Carolina". Under the heading, American Prisoners in Mill Prison at Plymouth, in 1782, there is printed a letter from Captain John Green to Henry Laurens. Continuations of T. W. Davenport's Slavery Question in Oregon, and John Minto's From Youth to Age as an American, occupy the greater part of The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for December. Under the heading of Documents may be found the speech of Senator J. Semple on the abrogation of the treaty of joint occupation of the Oregon country, together with other accompanying papers. Under the title, A Quaker Pilgrimage, William H. Love contributes the journal of a mission to the Indians in 1804, in the March number of the Maryland Historical Magazine. Henry P. Goddard writes brief sketches of Some Distinguished Marylanders I Have Known; the document known as Langford's Refutation is printed from the original in the Bodleian Library; and there is a genealogical sketch of the Smith Family of Calvert County, by Christopher Johnston. The first volume of the Publications of the Pennsylvania History Club contains the constitution of the Club, which was organized in 1905, and which consists of persons who have made some worthy contribution to Pennsylvania history, either in the way of research or publication. A brief account is given of the meetings of the Club since its organization, and the remainder of the sixty page booklet is devoted to a List of Members with their Historical Bibliographies. The April number of the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute opens with an address on Abraham Lincoln, delivered before the Essex Institute on February 12, 1909, by Robert S. Rantoul. Among the continuations are: Revolutionary Letters Written to Colonel Timothy Pickering, by George Williams; and Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Halifax, Novia Scotia. A. W. Greely contributes a genealogical sketch of Richard Ingersoll and Some of his Descendants. In the April number of the Missouri Historical Review there may be found an article by James M. Wood, on The Settlement of Columbia, Mo.-A Type Study, which deals mainly with the sources of immigration. Harrison A. Trexler writes on Slavery in Missouri Territory; there is a continuation of W. S. Bryan's sketch of Daniel Boone, which is devoted to Daniel Boone's Western "Palatinate"; and John L. Thomas contributes two articles entitled Historic Landmarks of Jefferson County, and Some Historic Lines in Missouri. The Navy of the Republic of Texas is the title of an interesting and valuable contribution by Alex. Dienst, which is begun in the January number of The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association. There is a continuation of Charles W. Ramsdell's Presidential Reconstruction in Texas; and a discussion of the Plan of Stephen F. Austin for an Institute of Modern Languages at San |