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THE
Hagerman Collection
KIITORY AND POLITICAL SQENCE
JAMES J. «AOER«*N OF CLASS OF '61
Protufor ChMtef KcmUII Adinu
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REPORT
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COLLECTIONS
ON THB
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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OF WISCONSIN,
For the Years 1877, 1878 and 1S79.
YOL. YIIL
MADISON, WIS.:
lUTID ATWOOD, BTATB PBDITBB.
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The eighth volume of Collections of our Historical Society presents quite a vanety of topics pertaiaiag to the early times, men and events of Wiseonsio. They very properly commence with the pre-historic era — and early copper tniuiug on Lake Superior, and the ancient copper implements, which, of late years, have been brought to the surface by the plow in different portions of our State; and an account of the Pictured Cave of La Crosse Valley. Then anions others, we have some new light respecting Nicolet's early visit to Wisconsin, and Prof. Butler's paper on Early Historic Relics of the North West.
Judge Martin has communicated some valuaWe, and hitherto anpublisheil, papers of the Langlade family — emphatically the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin; a traditionary account of the cap- ture of Mackinaw, by Louis J. Porlier; followed by a series of ant-ieot papers giving glimpses of Green Bay and the frontiers during the period of 1763-65. The sprightly Reminiscences of Mrs, Bristol, and Hon. Sat. Clark's Early Times at Fort Winnebago, will be read by our surviving pioneers with much interest. What is adduced on the much controverted question of the Williaius- Dituphin claim, will attract attention, even beyond the borders of Wisconsin; and will, we trust, go far towards dissipating all doubts as to William's true character, and leave the Indian mission- ary completely stripped of all his pretentious to having been Louis Seventeenth. The papers on the Early Settlement of Juneau County, and of the Swiss colony of New Glnrus, serve to rescue many important facts and details from forgetfulness, and preserve a record of the early self-denials and sufferings attendant on plant- iug homes in the wilderness.
Other papers of value are necessarily reserved for our next volume — among them. Dr. Enoch Chase's personal narrative of early Milwaukee settlement; Mrs, Adele B. Gratiot's narrative of early times in the Lead Region; and Hon. J. E. Thomas' paper on the pioneer settlement of Sheboygan County. L. C. D.
Wisconsin State IIistobical Sociktt.
OBJECTS OF COLLECTION DESIRED BY THE SOCIETY.
1. lUnajcrlpt ftttemenla uid iiRmttvei of pioneer ■siller* — old Ittlera ind ]onra*li relilivi- la Iba eucly klitory «Dd >eltleinenl oF WlacuDiln. uidoribe Dlick Biwk Wir; blo- Crapblcal iiulleo or our plonetirt, audof vmlncDt clUieni, deecsEcd: and ficla illDitratli« at our IndJuii Iriliua, (htir bl^tory, chartctcrlailca. altctchea of Ihelr promiDcnt clilefa, ora- tora nud wurriura, tajfeUicr wlUi contrlbailoiia vt Indian ItuplHincnta, dicia, oinnnieiitB and carina I Ilea.
8. Fllei of DBwapapera, booka, pimphlcla, callegs cilalognea; minniea of ecclealaallcal codYenllan*, courBruiicc* ind»Tnoda, andotber publlcitioaa relating lo Ihla Slatc.arUlch- lurin Territory, of which Wlacuuiiii focM.cd a part from IBIG to I83:i — and btnce tbeTvrrllo- tlsl Lbws and JournaJa, and llloa o/lllcbl|an nowapupera loc tbat pEriod, we are pecnUirlj
S. DniHinyo and deacriptlons of our ancienl mooada and furUllcatlonai llieir alie. rvpte-
aaolitlou aud lovallty.
4. Informailun rvapacUng inj ancleat coin*, pre-hlttoric capper Implemtiita. or ottMr corloaltlea Cuund In Wlaconaln. The coDtrlbnUan o[ ancb artlclea to lbs Cablnetof tha
E. Indian £vograpbical Dainsa of ilrearoa and local lllea Id tbla Slate, nllb ibeli algnlfl- caliouB.
a, Buoka or 111 klnda. and capeelallj Bdcb an relate ID American blBlor;. Iravela and blog- rapbj In lEeuoril, and Ibe Weal In particular, famllj genealo^eBt old mngnzlnea, pBmphleta, lllea ol Qcvrapapora, maps. hlBlurlcal ojiuiiiBcrlpti. aulograplu ol dlBllDgulsbcd portoiiB. (loliia. tnudala, paluiluga, portrait*, alatnarj' and engravlnga.
T. Wo aollclt frum illBtoilcal Soclcltea and other luariiL-d bodlea, that Interchange orbooka andotbermateiloltbybieb the naarulneaB or InatlluilaDi of Itala nalare la socBBonlUlly ■DbBnccd — pledging oaiaelvea to repay aucb coulrlbailDna by acts la kind lo Ibu rutl ex- tent of onr ability.
B. Tbe !Joclelf pariienlarly bcga tbe favor and coiapllmenC of antliora aad pnbUilicn, to preienl. wIlli ibolr anlograpba, coplea of their roepcctlve worlia for Ha Library.
fkvor on tbe Siielety by coulrlbnllng fbuir publications regularly for It^ Library ^ or. at laaal, auGb Duta1ii.'r> la may caolaln attldea boitlng upon Wlaconaiu hlatoty. blugrapby. OC antlqoltlet: all which will be carefully pcea^rVD I for blcdlag.
rackagea far Ihe Houlety may be sum to, or dopoelled witb. tbe lollowlng gontlemeD, wbo bave kindly commuted to lake cbirge of them. Such parccla. to prevent mlaiaket, rboQld be properly coietopcd and addreased, oven It but aBlngle arllcte; and II would. fnrthDt- more, beduilrnblc. Ibal donor* ebould forWDId lo Ihe Cor.eaponding Secretary a Bpecillc&.
EP*ll»i>ora to Ibe Society's Library and Culleelloba will, In retam, be placed upon tha llat of eicbangoB, and receive equivalent publlcailona of ibe Suclciy.
DEPOSITARIES.
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INDEX OF PAPERS.
Past. laTKODDCTORT 3
Objects of Collzctios 4
Index op Papbrs S-8
OmcEKS OF THE SotTKTY, 1877 7-8
1878 S-IO
1870 11-13
Akntal Report, Jasuaht, 1877 13-32
1878 83-00
187D 00-85
/« Jfemonitm — Prof. 8. II. Cnrpcoter, LL. D.:
Prot. AndiTson's memoir 86-B5
Remarka by O. M. Con over. LL, D D5-i00
Preiideot Bnscom's remarks 100-101
Prof. Parkinson's remarks 10!-108
Prof. Allen's remarks 1(18-108
Oen. Atwood's remarks 105-107
C. N. Gregory's tribute 107-108
Jn Manoriam — Hon. George B. Smilli:
Jutlgc Orion's remnrka 108
ResolulioDS of respect 108
Oen. Alwood's remtirks 111-20
Judge Braley's remarks 120-80
Sir BasUforil's remarks 180-38
Akciekt Copper Mines op Lake Sl'pehior, by Jacob Houghton, 140-SI
pBE-HiBTOBic Copper Impleuknts, by Rev. E. F. Blafter 1C2-IM
Akcient Coffer Implements —
How Fiibricaled, by Lyman C. Draper 105-67
by Fred, S. Perkipa 108
by Col. CLas. Whiiilesey 168-89
byDr.P.R.aoy 100-78
PiCTcBED Cafe of La Cbossr Vallet, by Rev. Edward Brown. . 174-83 Abditiosai. Notes oh the La Crosse Cayk, by Hon. J, A- Kice. 188-87 KoTza OM Jkak Nicolkt, by Benj. 8uU6 168-S4
6 Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Eablt Historic Rblics op the Northwest, by Prof. J. D. But-
LEB, LL. D 195-206
Tradition of the Fox Indians, 1730 207-208
Langlade Papers, 1737-1800 209-23
Incident of Chegoiheoon, 1700 224-26
Capture op Mackinaw, 17C3, by L. J. Porlier. ... 227-31
Green Bat and the Frontiers, 1763-65 232-40
Indian Wars op Wisconsin, by Hon. Moses M. StroDg 241-86
Wisconsin in 1818, by Edward Tanner 287-93
RESf iNiscENCES OP THE Nortu-West, by Mrs. M. A. B. Bristol . . . 293^2
Early Times at Fort Winnebago, by Hon. Sat Clark 309-21
Recollections op Eleazer Williams, by Qen. A. G. Ellis 822-52
Additional Notes on Eleazer Williams, by Lyman C. Draper. 853-69 Early Exploration and Settlement op Juneau County, by
Hon. J. T. Kingston 370-410
poriion accidentally omitted 475-77
The Swiss Colony op New Glarus, by Hon. John Luclisinger.. 411-39
Additional Notes on New Glarus, by J. J. Tscliudy 440-45
Wisconsin Necrology, 1976-78, by Lyman C. Draper 446-74
Additions AND Corrections 475-77
General Index 478
Officers of toe Society, 18?7.
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1877.
PRESIDENT:
Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, Milwapkeb.
VICE. PRESIDENTS:
Bun.air S. Obton, LLC. Uidlioi HonnA-i L. IliitTm. Qfceo Bdj; Jjau T. Lewi*, LL.D., Colnmbi.
Bditt, E>q , Portigs Cltjr; Joim a BocsTBiK, PUItByllle; C. C. Waiiixcbii, LL.D. Madiion;
Hon. John F. Pottkr. GiitTroji Lika; Sakukl MinsuiLi.. E>q., MllwinkM; Uon. JouM T. Kii.otiTOB, SocedBh; Hon. Sat. Clark, norlioD; Hod. MohB* M. Bnto^ie, Hlgenl Point; lion. Tiim. C, Pouxu, uhlppetn rftlU. Gen. J. J. GfppKi, I'oruge Clirj Frid, a. PEiuiixa. Eiq.. IIUTllDElon.
HONORAItV VICE PBESIDBKTS.
Bon. CtsIH ^
Bod. tiioaar
B«a. pEaKT U. BxiTii, llllnola;
Hob. Btbpuis Tatlou, Poiin»jl"«
Ban. A. C. Dounc. lova;
Bod. L. J. FinwKLL, Ult.ionrl.
fol. 8. V. Sun-UB,
K«v. R. M.IluDaEi, 1
Hon. PniLO White, LL.D., Kew Yoikj
Gun. EiEUH C. Buix, Kuurb.
Ccrreipmditig Secrrtary— LYMAN 0. DRAPER
Rteording Secretary— Cot.. F. H- FIRMIN.
Trtatur*r—Uos. A H. MAIN.
Zttrar/nn— DANIEL 8. DURHIE.
JMitlant Librarians — mm ISABEL DURRIE, L B. BUADLET.
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8 Wisconsin State Historical Society.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Pvhlieatiom — Draper, Smith, Batler, S. H. Carpenter and Culver.
Auditing Accounts — Hastings, Allen, Firmin, Anderson and Chapaiaa.
Finance — Mills, Kuehn, Hastings, Van Slyke, Washburn.
Endowment — Orton, Washburn, Proudfit, Ludiugton, Mills, Van Slyke, Chap- man, Burrows, Johnson, and Draper.
Literary Exchanges — Durrie, Firmin, Hobbins, Doyle, and Draper.
Cabinet — Lyon, Allen, Stevens, Keycs, Durrie, and S. D. Carpenter.
Natural History — Tenney, Ludington, Hobbins, Delaplaine, and Stevens.
Printing — S. D. Carpenter, Culver, Parkinson, and Key es.
Art Gallery — Stuart, S. H. Carpenter, Delaplaine, Mills, Vilas, Doyle, and Reynolds.
Historical Narratives — Pinney, Fairchild, Orton, Tenney, and Draper.
Indian History and Nomenclature — Chapman, Butler, Allen, Stevens, Reynolds
Lectures and Essays — Buller, Conover, Parkinson, Durrie, and Anderson.
Soliciting Ccmmittee — Chapman, Hobbins, Braley, Kuehn, Proudfit, Johnson.
Annual Address — Smith, Pinney, Burrows, Fairchild, and Gurnee.
Membership Nominations — Mills, Chapman, Vilas, Gurnee, Proudfit, Stuart*
Library^ Purchase^ and Fixtures — Draper, Conover, and Durrie.
Pre Historic Antiquities of Wisconsin — Butler, Perkins, Allen, Conover, Braley
Obituaries — Atwood, Draper, Smith, Braley, and Tenney.
Officers op the Society -
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY — 1878.
ie«-Prettihnti — Hon. Ilitrlow 8. Ortoo, LL. D., HadUoa; Hoa. Morgan L. Marlin, Green Bay; lion. James T. Lewis, LL. D., Columbus; Hon. Jamet SulberUud, Janeaville; Hon. H. D. Barron, St Croii Falls; Channcey C. Britt, Esq , Portage City; Hon. Joba H. Rountree, Platte. Tille; Hon. Simeon Mills, Madison; Hon. J. F. Potter, East Troy Lake; Samnel Marshall, Esq., Milwaukee; Hon. John T. Kin^csCon, Kcccdali;
^HoD. Sat. Clark, Horicon; Hon. Hoses H. Strong. Mineral Polot; Hon. niad.C. Pound, Chippewa Falls; Hob. J. J. Ouppy, Portage City; Fred. I, Perkina, Esq., Burliagton. OMorarj/ Viet Pmtdtnit — Hon. Cyrus Woodman, Massachusells ; Hon. George W. Bradford, New York; Hon. Peiry U. Smith, Illinois; Hon. A. C. Dodge, lona; Hon. L. 'J. Farwull, Missouri ; YLoa. C. C. Trow- bridfie, Michigan ; Charles Fairchild, Esq., MaasacUuaetts ; Col. S. V. Ship- man, Illlnuls; Rev. R. M. Hodges. D. D., Mossacliusells ; Hoo. Puilo ■While, LL. D.. New York; Gen, Hiram C, Bull, Kansas; and one v».
CorrtMponding ffeoMiapV— Lyman C. Draper,
Jtecordiaff Sinrefary— Col. F. H. Firmin.
Treatvrer — Hon. A. H. Main.
Librarian — Daniel 3. Durrie.
A$tutant Librn riant — Whs Isabel Durrie and L S. Bradley.
Curator*, er-offirio'- Hon. W.E.^oihh, Governor; Hon. H. B. Wsrnet, Sec- retary of Slate; Hon. Richard Quenther, State Treasurer; H.m. Aler. Mitchell. Life Director.
Curator* far One Tair — James D. Butler, LL. D.; 3. H. Carpenter. LL. D.; Hon. J. D. Gurnee, N. B. Vun Slyke. C. P. Chapman, Hon. H, U. Giles, Isaac Lyon, Prof. J. B. Parkinson, lion. G. B. Burrowa, and Hon. J. A. Johnson.
ForTmo FeaM — Hon. Geo. B. Smith, Gen. G. P. Delaplaiae, Hon. Andrew Proudfii, Hon. 8. U. Pinney, Dr. Joseph Hohblns, Hon. E. W. Keyes, Hon. 8. D. Hastings, J. R. Stuart, Huu. E. E. Bryant, and H. H. Bash- ford.
JV Thru r*ir*— Gen. D. Alwood, Prof. O. M. Conover, Hon. L, Paifchild, Hon. L. B. Vilas, B. J. Stevens, Prof. W. F. Allen, Hon. H. A. Tenney Hon, A. B. Braley, Coi. Thomas Reynolds, tod Prof. B. B. ADdorson. 2— ST.niB.8oo.
10 Wisconsin State Historical Society.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Library^ Purchases and Fixtures — Gov. Wm. E. Smitb, Warner, Guenther, CoQOver and Barrows.
Legislative Conference Committee — Keyes, Pinney, Giles, Orton, Braley and Atwood.
Publication — Draper, G. B. Smith, Butler, Carpenter and Atwood.
Auditing Accounts — Mills, Allen, Flrmia, Anderson and Chapman.
Finance — Hastings, Guenther, Van Slyke and Washburn.
Endowment — Orion, Yl2i%\\\i\xru, Proudfit, W. E. Smith, Mills, Van Slyke, Chapman, Burrows, Johnson, Atwood and Giles.
Literary Exchanges — Durrie, Firmin, Bobbins and Warner.
Cabinet — Lyon, Allen, Stevens, Keyes and Durrie.
Natural History — Tenney, Bobbins, Delaplaine and Stevens.
Printing — Parkinson, Keyes and Bashford.
^W G^a/^ry — Stuart, Carpenter, Delaplaine, W. E. Smith, Vilas, Reynolds and Bryant.
Historical Narratives — Pinney, Orton, Tenney, Keyes and Proudfit.
Indian History and Nomenclature — Chapman, Butler, Allen, Stevens and Reynolds.
Lectures and Essays — Parkinson, Butler, Conover, Durrie and Anderson.
/Soliciting Committee — Chapman, Bobbins, Braley, Giles, Proudfit and John- son.
Annual Address — G. B. Smith, Pinney, Burrows, Braley and Gumee.
Membership Nominations — Bashford, Chapman, Vilas, Gurnee, Bryant and Stuart.
Pre-Htstoric Antiquities — Butler, Peikins, Allen, Conover and Giles.
Obituaries — Atwood, Draper, G. B. Smith, Braley and Tenney.
Officers of the Society — 1879. 11
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY— 1879.
PRESIDENT :
Hon. C. C. WASHBURN, LL. D.
Vice Presidents — Hon. Harlow S. Orton, LL. D., Madison; Hon. Morgan L, Martin, Green Bay; Ilun. James T. Lewis, LL. D., Columbus; Hon. James Sutherland, Janesville; Hon. H. D. Barron, St. Croix Falls; Chauncy C. Britt, Esq., Portage City ; Hon. John H. Rountree, PlattevlUe ; Hon. Simeon Mills, Madison; Hon. J. F. Potter, East Troy Lake; Samuel Marshall, Esq., Milwaukee; Hon. John T. Kingston, Necedah ; Hon. Sat. Clark, Horicon; Hon. Moses M. Strong, Mineral Point; Hon. Thad. C. Pound, Chippewa Falls; Hon. J. J. Quppy, Portage City; Fred. S. Per- kins, Esq., Burlington.
Honorary Vice Presidents — Hon. Cyrus Woodman, Massachusetts ; Hon. Greo. W. Bradford, New York; Hon. Perry H. Smith, Illinois; Robt. Clarke, Ohio; Hon. A. C. Dodge, Iowa; Hon. L. J. Farwell, Missouri; Hon. C. 0. Trowbridge, Michigan; Chas. Fairchild, Massachusetts; Col. S. V. Sbipman, Illinois; Hon. Philo White, LL. D., New York; Gen. Hiram
C. Bull, Kansas; Dr. Samuel H. Hunt, Newton, N. J.
Corresponding Secretary — Lyman C. Draper.
Becarding Secretary — Coh F. H. Firmin.
Treasurer — Hon. A. H. Main.
Librarian — Daniel 8. Durrie.
Curators, ex-offlcio -- Ron. W. E. Smith, Governor; Hon. H. B. Warner, Secre- tary of State; Hon. Richard Guenther, State Treasurer; Hon. Alex. Mitchell, Life Director.
JPVw 0ns Tear— Bon. Geo. B.Smith, Gen. G. P. Delaplalne, Hon. Andrew Proudfit, Hon. 8. U. Pinney, Dr. Joseph HobbiDS, Hon. E. W. Keyes, Hon. 8. D. Hastings, Geo. Raymer, Hon. E. E. Bryant and R. M. Bash- ford.
JTorTwo Tears — Gen. David Atwood, Prof. O. M. Conover, LL. D.,Hon. L. Fairchild, Hon. L. B. Vilas, B. J. Stevens, Prof. W. F. Allen, Hon. H. A. Tcnney, Hon. A.B. Braley, Col. Thomas Reynolds and Prof. R. B. Ander-
80D.
J'or Three F«ir«— James D. Butler, LL. D., Hon. B. E. Hutchinson, Hon. J.
D. Gumee, N. B. Van Slyke, C. P. Chapman, Hon. H. H. Giles, Isaac Lyon, Prof. J. B. Parkinson, Hon. G. B. Burrows and Hon. J. A. John- acn.
12 Wisconsin State Historical Society.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Library^ PureJuuet and Fixtures — Gov. W. E. Smith, Warner, Guenther, Conover and Barrows.
Legiilative Conference Committee — Kejes, Mills, Pinnej, Giles, Braley and Atwood.
Publication — Draper, G. B. Smith, Butler, Anderson and Atwood.
Auditing Accounts — Mills, Allen, Firmin, Anderson and Chapman.
Finance — Hastings, Guenther, Van Slyke and Washburn.
Endowment — Orion, Washburn, Proudflt, W. E.Smith, Mills, Van Slyke, Chapman, Burrows, Johnson, Atwood and Giles.
Literary Exchangee — Durrie, Firmin, Hobbins and Warner.
Cabinet — Lyon, Allen, Stevens, Eeyes and Durrie.
Natural History — Tenney, Hobbins, Delaplaine and Stevens.!
Printing — Parkinson, Raymer and Bashford.
Art Gallery — Delaplaine, W. E. Smith, Yilas, Reynolds, Bryant and Raymer.
Historical Narratives — Pinney, Orton, Tenney, Proudflt and Hutchinson.
Indian History and Nomenclature — Chapman, Butler, Allen, Stevens and Reynolds.
Lectures and Essays — Parkinson, Butler, Conover, Durrie and Hutchinson.
Soliciting Committee — Chapman, Hobbins, Braley, Giles, Proudflt and John- son.
Annual Address — G. B. Smith, Pinney, Burrows, Braley and Gurnee.
Membership Nominations — Bashford, Chapman, Vilas, Gurnee, Bryant and Mills.
PreHistoric Antiquities — BxiXXet, Perkins, Allen, Conover and Giles.
Obituaries —.Atwood, Draper, G. B. Smith, Braley and Tenney.
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THB
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
Submitted January 2, 1877.
The first five years of the Society's existence was merely a nominal one. From its re-organization in January, 185-i, its real efficiency dates. After twelve years efforts and accumulations, the Society removed into our present spacious apartments, appro- priately fitted up for its occupancy in the new Capitol building ; having, during that period, issued four volumes of Collections, and gathered a Library of over twenty-one thousand volumes and pamphlets — exhibiting an annual increase of a little short of eighteen hundred volumes and pamphlets. During the eleven years since our removal into these comfortable quarters, the average annual increase has been four thousand, four hundred and forty-two books and pamphlets — making the present strength of the Library over seventy thousand volumes and pamphlets. Three additional volumes of Collections have, within this period, been issued, and three volumes of Catalogues of the Library.
In a new State like ours, with but few men of wealth to foster and endow such institutions, this growth will be regarded as alike creditable to the management of the Society, and the enlightened liberality of the Legislature of the State, well seconded by the suc- cessive Governors, and other State officers. This recognition of State aid and fostering care is justly due to the peopleof Wiscon- sin and their Legislative and Executive representatives, unflag- gingly extended to the Society through every period, in adver- sity as well as in prosperity. There is nowhere on record an
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iastance of public assistance, to the same extent, to any similar association in this or any other country.
FINANCIAL condition — BINDING FUND.
The Treasurer's report shows the receipts of the year into the General Fund, including the small balance of the previous year, to have been $5,001.87; and the disbursements, $4,987,62, leav- ing a balance of $14.25.
The Binding Fund has received but two donations during the year — one ot forty dollars, to complete the payment of a pledge of fifty dollars, from Hon. G. W. Bradford ; and one of twenty dol- lars from Eev. R M. Hodges, D. D., — his fifth annual con- tribution of that amount; both of these generous friends of the Society, residing beyond our borders, are numbered among our Honorary Vice Presidents, and have attained the venerable age of four score years. Would that their example might provoke others to similar acts of benevolence.
Duplicate books sold during the year have amounted to $329.70; accrued interest, $295.23; annual membership dues, net $47.05; — thus showing an addition of $731.98, and making; the total present amount of this important fund, $4,800.41.
The section of land on the western borders of Texas, set apart for this Fund by the late Hon. John Catlin, has not yet become marketable ; and several years may elapse before its sale can be judiciously effected, owing to the liability of that exposed fron- tier to raids of plundering parties of Mexicans and Indians. This thoughtful provision on the part of Mr. Catlio, who made the first contribution to this Fund, in 1867, will eventually prove quite a creditable addition to this important object His worthy relict, Mrs. Catlin, manifests an anxious solicitude to carry into eflfect this long cherished purpose of her departed husband.
This Binding Fund is a matter of too much importance to the Society, its Library and its thousands of readers, to languish for want of interest Ten years have elapsed since this Fund was commenced, and during all this time we had necessarily to draw upon the General Fund for the very scant amount of binding we have been forced to pfocura Our twenty-five thousand unbound pamphlets, and large accumulations of unbound manuscripts,
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books, review3 and magazines, need to be properly bound alike for their better preservation, and convenience for reference pur- poses. A little earnest effort would, doubtless, secure sufficient pledges, payable annually, for five successive years, without inter- est, to render this Fund adequate to the object in view ; so that, only using its income, it would ever after prove a permanent source of usefulness to the Society.
LIBRARY ADDITIONS.
During the past year,lhe library additions have been 2,826 vol- umes, of which 1,482 were acquired by purchase, 600 by donation and 738 by binding, and 2,336 pamphlets — of which 1,358 were secured by donation, 978 by purchase, and 64 mounted from news- paper clippings. Of the book additions, 175 volumes were folios, 91 quartos; increasing the number of folios in the Library to 2,389, and the quartos to 2,949, and both to 5,338.
PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY INCREASE.
The past and present condition of the Library is shown in the following table :
Date.
1854, Jan. 1
1855, Jan. 2
1856, Jan.l
1857, Jan. 6
1858, Jan.l
1859, Jan. 4
1860, Jan.8
1861, Jan. 2
1862, Jan. 2
1868, Jan. 2
1864, Jan. 2
1865, Jan.8
1866, Jan.2
1867, Jan.8
1868, Jan. 4
1869, Jan.l
1870, Jan. 4
1871, Jan.8
1872, Jan.2
1873, Jan.2
Jo I Y, V an. ^•. ...•••... ... • •
1875, Jan.2
1876, Jan. 4
1877, Jan.2
ToUl
Volumes added.
50
1,000
1,065
1,005
1,024
1.107
1,800
837
610
544
248
520
808
923
5,462
2,838
923
1,970
1,211
2,166
1,852
1,945
2,a51
2,820
Documents
and Pamphlets.
1,000
2,000
800
059
500
723
1,134
711
2,373
856
220
806
2,811
1,043
682
6,240
1,372
3,7»9
1.528
1,178
1,186
1,764
2,336
Both together.
85.139
35.017
50 2.000 3,065 1.305 1,983 1,607 2,523 1,971 1.821 2,917 604 746 1,174 3.784 6,505 8,520 7,163 3.342 5,000 3,694 3.030 3,181 4,615 5,156
Total
in Library.
70, 156
50 2,050 5.115 0,420 8,408 10,010 12.538 14.504 15,825 18.742 19.346 20,092 21,266 25.000 31.505 35. 0.^5 42.188 45,530 50.530 54,224 57.254 60.885 65.000 70,156
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principal book additions
English and Continental History and Literature, — History of the^ Holy War, 1647, folio, 1 vol. ; Sammes' Britannica Antiqua, 1676, folio, 1 vol. ; Raleigh's History of the World, 1736, folio, 2 vols.; London Registers and Calendars, 1755-1807, 26 vols. ; Chevalier Johnstone's Rebellion of 1745, 1 vol.; Bulletins of European Campaigns, 1793-1826, 30 vols. ; Chronicles of England. 13 vols. ; Guizot's History of France, 6 vols. ; Monumenta Anglicana, 5 vols. ; Humboldt's New Spain, 4 vols. ; Duyckinck's History of the World, 4 vols. ; Almon's Correspondence, 5 vols. ; Vernon's Letters of the Reign of William III, 3 vols. ; Molesworth's History of England, 3 vols. ; Goodrich's History of England, 3 vols. ; Southey's West Indies, 3 vols. ; English Miscell- aneous Pamphlets, 12 vols. ; Moule's English Counties, 2 vols. ; Wilson's Pre Historic Scotland, 2 vola ; Goodman's Social History of Great Britain, 2 vols. ; Collier's Shakspeare's Library and Notes and Emendations to Shakspeare, 3 vols. ; Stevens' Catalogue of American books in British Museum, 2 vols. ;. and the following works, one volume each : Smith's Assurban- ipal from Cuneiform Inscriptions, Tucker's Devonshire Pedigrees, Memoirs of James Fillans, the sculptor, a richly illustrated work presented by his daughter. Miss. Fillans, Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, Howard's Revelations of Egyptian Myster- ies, Nicolas' History of Battle of Agincourt, Stevens' John and Sebastian Cabot, Dyers' Pompeii, Dudley's Noology, Major's Select Letters of -Columbus, Pownall's Study of Antiquities,. Pownalls Antiquarian Romances, Pethrani's Anglo-Saxon Litera- ture, and History of the Feuds and Clans of Scotland.
Works on Science^ etc, — Wilkes' Exploring Expedition, in folio and quarto, bound in Turkey morocco, 26 vols., from the State, through the courtesy of Gov. Ludington ; Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical Science. 8 vols. ; Prichard's Researches into the Phj'sical History of Mankind, 5 vols. ; Prichard's Eastern Origin of Celtic Nations, 1 vol. ; Audubon's Quadrupeds of N. A., 3 vols. ; Transactions of the Royal Society. 4 vols. ; Smith- sonian Contributions, 2 vols. ; Medical and Anthropological Statistics, 2 vols. ; Falconer's Paleontological Memoirs, 2 vols. ;.
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Eafinesque's Fluviatile Bivalve Shells of the Ohio, and Medical Flora, 2 vols. ; Morton's Types of Mankind, and Crania iEgjptica, 2 vols.; and the following in single volumes > Hayes' Open Polar Sea, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, International Pre-flistoric Congress, Catlin's Uplifted and Subsided Eocks, Cuvier*s Revolutions of the Globe's Surface, Flouran's History of the Discovery of the Circu- lation of the Blood, Hayden's Geographical Survey of Colorado, etc., Worthen's Geological Survey of Illinois, vol. 6, Simpson's Exploration of the Great Basin of Utah, and Wheeler s Geograph- ical Surveys in the West
American History and Literature, — Lafitau's Hist, of Discover- ies in New World, 4 vols. ; Hazard's Historical Collection of State Paperp, 1792, 2 vols, quarto ; Burgoyne's Campaign, quarto, 1780; CoL Laurens' Correspondence, 1777-78 ; Hist, of Lite War, 1774 ; O'Callaghan's Jesuit Relations, 1632-72 ; Caryon's Jesuites of Canada ; Shea's Captivity of Jogues ; Shea's American Lin- guistics ; Ferland's Hist. Canada, 2 vols. ; Beatty's Two Months' Tour, 1768; Details of Particular Servicer, 1776-79; Journals of Old Congress, 1774-88, 13 vola ; Journals of Congress, 1789-93, 6 vols. ; Benezet's Observations on American Indians, 1784 ; Loudon's Indian Wars, 2 vols.; Murray's Travels in America, 2 vols. ; Guthrie's Geography, 1809 ; Buckingham Smith's Career of Hernando De Soto; Illustrations of Revolutionary History, scraps, mounted, 2 vols. ; Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, 2 vols. ; Yan Home's Hist, of Army of Cumberland, 3 vols. ; Schmucker's Hist of Civil War, 2 vols. ; K Y. Hist Soc. Col- lections, 2 vols. ; Clark's Naval Hist of the \J, S., 3 vols. ; Force's National Calendar, 6 vols. ; Bancroft's Hist U. S., revised ed'n, 6 vols. ; Thomas' Hist of Printing, revised e Jition, 2 vols ; Tut- tle and Durrie's Histories of Iowa and Wisconsin, 2 vols.; Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, 6 vols. ; Pennsylvania Hist Society Bulletin, 1845-46 ; Macaulay's Hist of New York, 3 vols. ; Jacque's Relation ; Sharan's Adventures ; Roberts' Florida ; Wil- letts Memoir; Wheaton's Northmen in America; Stone's Remi- niscences of Saratoga ; Binney s Inquiry into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address ; Wright's Sketches of Plymouth,
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Pa. ; Holden's Hist, of Queensbury, N. Y. ; Raum's Hist of Trenton, N. J. ; Journal of Claude Blanchard, 1780-82 ; Potter's Mil. Hist, of N. H. ; Gleig's Campaigns against Washington, Bal- timore, and New Orleans, 1814-15 ; Auchinlek's Hist of War of 1812; Silliman's Tour to Quebec; Roys Hist of Canada; Mar- shairs Hist of the Colonies ; Murphy's Anthology of New Nether- lands ; Reavis* Hist of St Louis ; NewhalFs Iowa, 18-11 ; Barnes' Centenary Hist of U. S, ; Hieroglyphic Geography of the U. S. ; Pickering's Orthography of Indian Languages ; Harrisse's Bibliotheca Americana, additions, folio ; Mrs. Hammond's Hist of Madison Co., N. Y. ; Pennsylvania Archives, second series ; Comstock*s American Antiquities ; Bossu's New Voyages ; Mc- Culloh's Researches on America; McMasiers Hist of Steuben Co., N. Y. ; Perrott's Memoire; Quebec Literary and Hist So- ciety Transactions ; Indian Treaty at Philadelphia ; Bradford's Hist of Mass. ; Duponceau's Indian Grammar ; Hist of Capture of Louisburg; Hosack's Life of Clinton; BondueUs Indian Mis- sions in Wisconsin, 2 vols. ; Whitford's Sketch of Education in Wisconsin; Carpenter's History of Wisconsin, University; Chapin's Sketches of Wisconsin Colleges; Salisbury's Sketch of Wisconsin Normal Schools; Davies' Sketch of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Science and Letters ; Butler's Sketch of the Wisconsin Historical Society; Wisconsin at the Centennial; Wisconsin History and Topography, prepared by D. S. Durrie, in six MS. folio vols. — of great value to writers on our State, and the result of much painstaking inquiry and research.
Periodical Literature, — American Magazine, 1744, 1 vol. ; New American Magazine, 1758-60, 2 vols. ; Weekly Magazine, 1768- 75, 13 vols. ; Royal Magazine, 1759, 1 vol. ; Town and Country Magazine, 1771 and 1779, 2 vols. ; St James' Magazine, 1774, 1 vol. ; Boston Magazine, 1785, 1 vol. ; American Magazine, 1787- , 88, 1 vol. : New England Quarterly, 1802, 3 vola ; The Med- ley, 1803, 1 vol. ; Latter Day Luminary, 1818, 1 vol. ; TJ. S. Lit- erary Gazette, 1824-26, 3 vols. ; Worcester's Talisman, 1828-29, 1 vol. ; Mechanics' Magazine, 1830, 1 vol. ; People's Magazine, 1833, 1 vol. ; American Magazine, 1835, 2 vols. ; Literary Rec- ord, 18t4-48, 4 vols. ; Graham's Magazine, 14 vols. ; The Athen-
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»am, 22 vols. ; The Zoist, a Physiological Journal, 13 vols. ; Quarterly Review, 9 vols. ; Harper's Magazine, 6 vols. ; Living -Age, 6 vols. ; Unitarian Miscellany, 6 vols. ; Godey^s Lidy's Book, 5 vola ; Brit Quarterly Review, 5 vols. ; Southern Baptist Missionary Journal, 5 vols. ; The Old and New, 3 vols. ; Banker's Magazine, 8 vols. ; New Mirror of L'terature, 3 vols. ; American Monthly, 3 vols. ; North American Review, and Index, 8 vols. ; Knickerbocker Magazine, 2 vols. ; Historical and Genealogical Register, 2 vols. ; American Review and Literary Journal, 2 vols. ; Atlantic Monthly, 2 vols. ; Mass. Missionary Magazine, 2 vols. ; and the following, one volume each : Americin Quarterly Reg- ister, Wonderful Magazine, Historical Magazine, Southern Liter- ary Messenger, Register and Magazine of Biography, Antiquarian and General Review, American Bibliopolist, American Book- seller, Virginia Literary Museum, N. Y. Portrait Monthly, American Apollo, Kendall's Expositor, Cobbett's Register, Mili- tary Magazine, N. Y. Genealogical Record, News Letier, and N. Y. Missionary Magazine.
Bound NeiL'spaper Files. — The additions to this department have been large and valuable, as the followiog list sufficiently
attests :
VoU.
London Journal and True Briton, 1720-28 1
Sonth Carolina Gazette, etc., 1723-35 1
New England Journal, 1739-49 1
New York GazeUe and Post ^y, 1749-50 1
Pennsylvania Journal, 1750-52 1
South Carolina Gazette, 1753 ^ 1
London Chronicle, 1757-64 8
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1764 1
New York Chronicle, 1769 1
London Chronicle. 177 1-78 3
Pennsylvania Journal, 1772-17:4 2
The Crisis, 1775-76 1
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1776 1
Pennsylvania Ledger, 1776 1
Pennsylvania Journal, 1777-79 1
New Hampshire Gazette, 1784-86 1
Columbian Centinel, 1794 1
London Register, 1802-5 1
»alem Register, 1802-5 1
Boston Gazette, 1805 1
London Traveler, 1805 1
Various Newspap rs, 1806-8 2
Boston Weekly Messenger, 1812-30 9
Boston Gazette. 1813-15 2
American Weekly Messenger, 1814-15 1
Boston Evening Gazette. 1814-17 2
Boston Intelligencer, 1817 1
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New England Galaxy, 1817-18 1
Various Newspapers, 1818 1
Louisiana Advertiser, 1820 1
Boston Recorder, 1820-31 8
Portland Mirror, 1822-23 1
The Minerva, 1822-24 2
Columbian Centinel, 1824 1
American Traveler, 1825-27 %
Le Roy Gazette, 1827-28 1
New England Palladium, 1828 1
The Friend, 1828-75 15
Dover Unitarian Monitor. 1831-33 1
Independent Chronicle, 1832 1
New York Observer, 1833-34 1
Boston Pearl, 1835-36 1
Wisconsin Territorial papers, 1836-38. 1
Boston Transcript, 1842-50 8
Galena Jefifersonian, 1845-46 1
Boston Mail, 1846 1
Boston Advertiser, 1846-68 6
Boston Pilot, 1850-52 2
Waukesha Democrat, 1851-54 3
Willis* Current Notes, 1851-57 7
Boston Courier, 1855-61 S
Boston Bee, 1856 1
London Examiner, 1858 1
Christian Register, 1800-61 1
Southern Recorder, 1864-72 3
Woman^s Journal, 1871 1
Christian Witness. 1871 1
Rural New Yorker, 1 873 1
Prairie Farmer and Union, 1873 1
Cincinnati Gazette, 1873-74 2
Railr. ad Gazette, 1873-75 3
Kentucky Library Paper, 1873-74 1
The Nation, 1874-75 4
New York World, 1874-75 3
New York Tribune, 1874-75 8
Chicago Tribune, 1874-75 4
Chicago Times, 1875 2
Paten t Office Gazette, 1875 1
Wisconsin Centennial Papers, 1876 4
Wisconsin Daily and Weekly papers, 1875-76 54
Total 203
Twenty-seven voluni,es of these newspaper additions pertain to the last century — the richest addition, of that period, the Society has ever made in a single year ; making the total in the Library of the 17th century 62 vols.; of the 18th, 361 ; of the present cen- tury, 2,247 — grand total, 2,670.
The number of periodicals now received by the Society is 195, three less than last year; of which 3 are published quarterly, 12 monthly, 168 weekly, 2 semi-weekly, and 10 daily. Of these, 166 are published in Wisconsin, evincing the continued interest of the
idois and publishers of our State in this invaluable department
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of historical literature. About fifty years of unbound papers, mostly of Milwaukee, from 1845 to 1875, have been revived from the estate of the late Dr. I. A. Laphani — valuable for the corapla- IJonof the Society's Wisconsin files; and, from the same source, the Society is largely indebted for a generous donation of books and pamphlets. Fifty-four volumes of unbound papers, of vari- ous years, from 1809 to 1875, hiive been received, on exchange account, from the Boston Public Library. Other serials have been received, and laid aside for binding.
To the Map and Atlas Department have been added : Ohio County Atlasedof Ashland, Butler, Champaign, CUrk, Crawford, Guernsey, Licking, Logan, Medina, Morrow, Muskingum, Ottawa, Richland and Shelby ; HlEtorical Alias of the Globe, including Alias of Wood Co., Ohio; Anderson's Map of Ohio, ISil, on rollers ; Doolittle & Munson's Map of Ohio, 1S38, on rollen) ; Map of Loraine Co., Ohio, on rollers ; Map of Wyandotte Co., Ohio, on rollers ; Map of Ameiica, 1722, sheet form, folio; De Lisle's Map of Louisiana, 1718, sheet form; De Lisle's Map ot Canada and New France, 1703, sheet form ; Map of Louisiana and the Missis- sippi River, 1718, folio, sheet form; Bradley's Map of the United States, 180-1 — these obtained by purchase. Miscellaneous State and other maps, some in sheets and some in covers, from Dr. Lap- ham's estate, 52 in number; Australian map, in sheet form, from Hon. S. D. Hastings ; mounted map of Eau Claire, from the city of Eau Claire, per R F, Wilson ; Keeler's National Map oE United States Territories, from Hon. S. D. Hastings ; maps and views accompanying message and documents of third session of 34th Congress, from Hon. S. D. Hastings ; map and profile of Erie Canal, 1817, from Cbarles Lapham; map of the United States, 1876, on rollers, purchased. These additions, seventy-two in number, increase the Maps and Atlases to 648.
To summarize the Library additions: Bound newspaper files, 203; Magazines and Reviews, 172; British Patent Olltce Reports, 117; American Patent Office Reports, 1-1; European History and Literature, 200 ; Travels and .Voyages, 30 ; American history ia general, State and local histories, 133; Revolutionary War, 28; War of 1812, 11 ; Mexican and Indian wars, 8 ; Civil war o£
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1861-65, 67 ; Archfleology and Antiquities, 27 ; Indians and cap- tivities, 86 ; Government explorations and expeditions, 33 ; Gov- ernment documents and reports, 66 ; on Politics and Government, 27 ; Banking and Currency, 14 ; Columbus and his Discoveries, 15 ; Mexico and South America, 12 ; Canada and British Provinces, 41; Cyclopedias, 15 ; Directories, 105 ; Eegisters and Almanacs, 42; Wisconsin Documents, 16; Eeports, Journals and Docu- ments of other States, 133; Biography, 115; Bibliography, 22; Bound Atlases, 15 ; Historical and Learned Societies, 15 ; Gene- alogies, 37 ; Law and Law Literature, 20 ; Science and Natural History, 24; Education and Philology, 22; Medical works, 24; Eeligious History and Literature, 110; Masonic works, 7; Shak- spearean Literature, 4; Poetry and Fiction, 14; unclassified, 14.
These additions of the year have been most important; secured among other sources, from the rich collections of Hon. Thos. H. Pield and the late Samuel G. Drake — the largest ever made on Indian historv and literature ; and also from the collections of the late Hon. Thomas H. Wynne, of Virginia, and Capt. Wm. F. Goodwin, of New Hampshire, both efficiently connected with the Historical Societies of their respective states. These four rich collections, thrown upon the market, enabled our Society to secure many rare and important works, serving to fill up many a gap in our several departments.
Our newspaper files have received an unusually large increase — many invaluable ones of the last century, from 1720 to 1794, most of which it would be impossible to duplicate. Our depart- ment of Directories, so important in tracing names for genealogical purposes, has received a large acquisition ; and the same may be said of our Indian and American historical departments, as well as our collections on Science, Bibliography, Genealogy, Maga- zines and Reviews, State Documents, Maps and Atlases. The valuable work on Wilkes' Exploring Exhibition, with all its illus- trative maps and drawings, finds a fitting place in our Library, transferred from the Executive Rooms, through Gov. Ludington's courtesy and kindness. Mr. Durrie's fine contribution of six un- published folio volumes on Wisconsin history and topography, deserves, as it should receive, a special recognition.
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DONORS OF BOOKS AND PAMPAHLKTS.
Books, 2 2
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Albany Institute
Allen, W.F
Appleton, W. S
Armstrong, W. S
Astor Library
Atwood, Gen. D
Barron, Hon. II. D 8
Barton, E. M 3
Baxter J U. (Provost Marshars Bureau) 2
Beloit College
B rryinan,'J. K 1
Bodley, Miss R. C
Boston Public Library 82
Bradlee, Rev. CD
Bradley, I. S
British Government IIT
Brooklyn Mercantile Library
Buck, Jamps 8 .'
Bunker Hill Monument Association
Bulterfield.C W
Carpenter, Dr. J. H
Carr, Hon. E. 8
Case, L. B.. ..
rase,F. W
Cheever, Hon. D. G
Chicago & N. W. Railway
Clark, John A
Clarke, Robert
Clement, John
Coast Survey Bureau
Col burn, Jeremiah
Colt, Mrs. Samuel ,
Crawford, Rev. William
Crosby, N
Cudmore, P
I'urry, Rev. J L M
Davenpor' Academy Nat. fc'cience .
Davis, W.B
DePeystf r G«n. J. W
Draper, L. C
Draper, Solomon
Durrie, D. S
Ellis, Gen. A. G
Fillans, MisaW
Fish, Hon. H., Secretary of State. .
Fo8ter,E. J
Ga'rison, W. P., Nation Office....
Gasparin, Countess De
Georgia Historical Society
Goss^E. H
Gould, S.C
Gray, Alfred
Green, Dr. S. A
Hammond, Mrs. L. M
Hartranft, Gov. J. F
Hastings, Hon. S. D
Hawkins, R. C
Heyl, Lewis 1
Hills, L.B
Hurton, George F 1
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Hoyt,Dr. J. W 1
Humphrey, Gen. A. A 5
Illinois, Sedretary of State 1
Indianapolis Public Library 1
logalls^E. S 1
Irish, Rev. J. E 1
James, T. P 1
Lapham^ S. G 1
Lapham, I. A., heirs of. 26 ....1378
Lay, J. H 1
Library of Congress 1 .... 1
Linn, Hon. John B 1
Litllejobn, P. J 1
Loughridge, W. B 2
Ludington, Hon. H 1
Lyman, Theodore 1
Lyon, Isaac 1
Mann, Charles 2
Maryland Hist. Society 2
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Massachusetts, Board of Education 1
Massachusetts, Board of Health 1
Massachusetts, Hist Society 1
Massachusetts, Sec. of State 21
Michigan State Library 1
Miller, D.J 1
Miller, Rev. W. G 1
Minnesota Hist. Society 8
Missouri, Sec. of State 75
Munsell, Joel 15
Newberry, Prof. J. S 1
Nesbit. James.... 2
New England Historic-Genealogical Society 2
New Hampshire, State Library, 5
New York,' Mercantiln Library 1
New York, Regents of the University. . .« 6
Nicodemus, Prof. W. J. L * 1
Pardee, O. S 8
Parker, Hon. C. D 1
Parvin, T. 8 8
Paten t Office, Washington U
Peabodv Institute 2
Peck, Mrs. R 1
Pennsylvania, Board Pub. Charities 1
Pennsylvania Hifit Society 2
Perry,Rev. Dr. W. 8 13
Poole, W. P 1
Putney, Maj. F. H 8
Quincy, Miss E. 8. • • • • 1
Quincy, Edmund 1
Quincy, Josiab 2
Quincy Public Library 1 ••«.
Quincy, S. M 1
Reeve,Dr.J.T 1
Reynolds, Rev. 8 8
Rodgers, Com. C. R. P • 1
Rollins, John R 1
8aftell,C.C 16 .... 56
Salisbury, Prof. A 1
Searing, Hon. Edward 4
Secretary of the Interior, Washington 40 .... 4
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Solberg, T. C 28
^tarbuck, A 2
Starbuck, W.S 8
Starr, Elisha , 1
Sterling, Prof. J. W 1
Stone & Cramer 1
Stone, liev. E. M • .... 1
Tonney, Hon. H. A 21 ... 7
Thomas, Mrs. M. Louise 4
Thomson, Peter G 1
Toner, Dr. J. M 1
Towne, W. B 1
Tuttle, Charles R 2
Unknown 1
Vaill, C. D 1
Yanslyke, N. B 1
Vermont Historical Society 1
Vermont State Library 5
Vilas, Dr. C. H 1
Went worth, Hon. J 1
Whittlesey, Col. Charles 2
Williams, J 1
Wisconsin, from State 54 .... 12
Wisconsin Centennial Commission 5
Yohn, Albert B 1
ART GALLERY.
Seven portraits, in oil, have been added to the Gallery. One of Alexander J. Irwin, an early Green Bay pioneer, painted by C. W. Heyd, in gilt frame, from his widow, Mrs. Frances Irwin ; Gen. A. G. Ellis, painted by his daughter, presented by the Gen- eral; Richard H. Magoon, an early Wisconsin pioneer, who shared in the Black Hawk War, and was the first person in Wis- consin to suggest the formation of a Historical Society ; Elisha Starr, a Milwaukee pioneer of 1836, presented by Mr. Slarr; Gen. Wm. L. rJtley, painted by Alfred Payne, in gilt frame, from Gen. Utley ; the late Dr. Geo. R McLane, of Waukesha, painted by S. M. Brookes, deposited by Chief Justice Ryan ; portrait of 0. S. Rafinesque, the naturalist, purchased. Also a photograph of Timothy Johnson, the first settler of Watertown, from Mrs. D, W. Ballou ; photograph of Gen. John A Sutter, the pioneer dis- coverer of gold in California, from A. Manges, Esq.
There are now one hundred and six oil paintings in the Art Gallery.
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additions to the cabinet.
AniiquUies, — A copper spear, with a barb near the point, the- only of the kind in the Society's collection, found in Fond du Lac Cbunty, from G. DeNevue ; a copper chisel, ten inches long, bev- elled on one side, a fine specimen ; a small copper axe, a small fiint arrowhead, and a stone implement, five inches wide and ten long, perhaps a breast plate, all found in a mound near Lake Chetek, Barron County, from Hon. Wm. Wilson : a copper spear, large size, splendid specimen, from Mons Anderson, La Crosse ;. two flint spear-heads, found two miles south-west of Monroe, Green County, twenty-one feet below the surface, from J. T^ Dodge ; four stone axes, and other tools, deposited by Isaac Allds,. Necedah, Juneau County ; a stone axe from Hon. J. F. Hand, Lowville, Columbia County ; fragments of ancient pottery found on a hill at Blue Mounds, from Wm. Carroll ; fragment of an- cient pottery found near Whitney's Rapids, Wood County, from Hon. M. M. Strong ; a small red stone pip?, found in Dane, Dane County, from G. H. Stewart ; a stone axe, edge partially broken^ found on premises of Gen. E. E. Bryant, near Lake Monona, towa ^ of Madison, presented by Gen. Bryant ; crania from Grant River, near Lancaster, from H. S. Keene; bDnes from a mound on the- premises of G. H. Durrie, near Madison, also fragments of potteryj including a portion of a pot — the largest in the Society's collec- tion, from Mr. Durrie ; cast of an ancient war axe, also of the sec- tion of a swivel, found at Starved Rock, Illinois, four inches ir> diameter and thirteen long, from D. F. Hitt and Gibbs, Ottawa,. 111. ; three copper arrows, twenty-four stone arrows, two stone hammers or axes, three stone wedges, two shells, and eight frag- ments of ancient pottery, a valuable contribution from J. D. Hol- man, Waupaca; and a portion of a red stone pipe, found near the red-stone quarry, Pipestone County, Minn., from W. S. Taylor.
Autographs^ etc. — Autograph signature of William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, from Dr. J- H. Carpenter ; autograph letter of Hon. Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina, to G. D. A Parks, of Lockport, N. Y., July 1, 1833, from Hon. Daniel Hall, Watertown; commission of Gov. Henry Dodge to W. T. Sterling, as Territorial Librarian, June 26r
1838, conntersigoed by W. B. Slaughter, Secretary, from Mr. Sterling by J. P. Switzer; two commissions of Gov. Dodge, both to Cliaoncy H. Penk, one as Justice of the Peace of Milwaukee county, Feb. 8, 1839, the other as Kii-at Lieutenant of the Fourth Company of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin MiUtia, March 31, 1840; a burial grountl Jeed, in west ward of Milwaukee, to C. H. Peak. Aug. 29. 1839, signed by Elisha Starr as President of the Trustees of Milwaukee, witnessed and acknowledged by I. A. Idphum; also a circular for the formation of a Public'Library in Milwaukee, April, 1846, and a remonstrance against the route of a road along the shore o( L:U<c Michigan, no date, all from Wm. Peak, through Hon. J. E, Thomas, Shet»oygan Falls.
Cbiv an'l Currenaj. — Twelve Skilling Danish silver coin, 1717, from M. Michelet, Pleasant Springs: a Chinese note, from E. S. Chase ; and the following trotn C C, Saffell, Baltimore ; Pennsylva- nia Colonial bill, five shillings, Oct. 1, 1773 ; Coatioental bill, two- thirds of a dollar, Feb. 17, 1776 ; another of same amount, May9, 1776; Massachusetts bill, two dollars, dated in 1780; State Bank, Morria, N. J,, one dollar, 1820; shinplist^r, Borough of Liver- pool, twenty-five cent'', 1857; Bank of Virginia, Staunton, three five dollar bills, April, 1860 ; Monticello Bank, five dollars, Nov., 1860 ; Corporation of Richmond, Va., two dollars, April, 1861 ; N. W. Bank of Virginia, Jefferson, one dollar, 1862 ; R-wking- hain Co., Virginia, twenty-five cents, 1862; Confederate States, ten dollars, Feb., 1864; also several old documents.
Niitural History Sjifciinens. — Molten lead from the Chicago fire, and eea salt, from E. R. Bristol; a section of a honey locust tree, &om Clinton Co, Ohio, from W. R. Paget; petrified wood from Nebraska, from I. S. Bradley ; olive wood from Jerusalem, manu- foutured into a crucifix, from Hon. D. C Cheever ; a small horned frog from Texas, from J. J. Ileim ; float copper, weighing twenty ounces, found on grounds of E. IL Huntington, Madison, from Frank Huntington ; lead mineral, fossils, and born of young deer, from Hon. M, M, Strong; Spanish moss from the Gulf of Mexico, buffalo hair or wool, from James McCloud ; specimens of various hinds of wood from Alexander Co., III., arranged on card, from Hon. D. G. Cheever; specimen of pure copper, about tour ounces
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ia weight, found on the bluflEs, in Coloma, Waushara County, while grading for Wisconsin Central Railroad, from J. A. Murat ; spedle iron slag from furnace of Madison Manufacturing Com- pany, from J. W. Hudson; twenty-two samples of tin ore, from Queensland, and New South Wales, copper ore from Burra- Burra Mine, South Australia, antimony from Victoria, Australia, gold bearing quartz, from New Zealand, flax and hemp, and paper made from the same, from Hon. S. D. Hastings ; a glass tube containing borings of the Artesian well at Prairie du Chieo, showing the successive strata to the depth of 960 feet, from Hoiu Horace Beach ; a specimen of lizard, from T. G. Good ; a sample of cotton grown at Palmyra, Wis., from Mrs. O. P. Dow.
Miscellaneous. — A skull found in Waupaca County, from Hon* Myron H. Eeed; a portion of a hub and springs of a buggy car- ried five eighths of a mile by the tornado at Hazel Green, Wis., in the spring of 1876; fourteen small photograph views of Santa Fe and New Mexico, from Miss Priscilla Jones; four photograph views of pontoon bridge, Artesian well, etc., at Prairie du Chien, from H. E. Farr; thirty bullets taken from buflEalo or bison skins, imbedded in the hide or wool, from Hon. D. G. Cheever ; a pair of bead moccasins taken from the feet of the Sioux chief Black Kettle, after he was killed by Gen. Custers' party in an engage- ment with the savages, preceding the one in which that officer lost his life, and Black Kettle's red stone pipe, also an Algerine news- paper in Arabic, from James Hewitt, through C. W. Butterfield; a fine chromo view of Starved Roi^k, on the Illinois River, where the old French fort of St. Louis was located, and famous as the spot where a portion of the Illinois tribe were starved to death rather than to surrender to their Indian enemies who besieged the place, from W. K. Cash ; a steel engraving of Gov. R. B. Hayes, from E. B. Bolens ; a squid used for catching mackerel, from Henry Conover ; a photograph of ferns and casts of two specimens of natural history, from D. F. Hitt & Gibbs, Ottawa, Illinois.
A NEW VOLUME OF COLLECTIONS.
The new volume of the Society's Collections, the seventh in our series, embraces several very important additions to Wisconsia history — notably the papers of Mr. Tasse and Gen. Ellis. Mr.
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Tasse has taken unusual pains to add to the knowledge of the in- teresting career of Charles de Langlade, the first settler of Wiscon- sin, written in the French language, and most creditably translated by Mrs. Sarah Fairchild Dean. Prof. Butler kindly aided in making translations of some revisions, in the absence of Mrs. Dean from the city. As this paper must prove the basis of our Wis- consin history, too much credit cannot be awarded Mr. Tasse for his unwearied efforts in its production; and to Mrs. Dean and Prol Butler for their kind assistance in giving it an appropriate English translation. The other papers in the volume, varied in their character, will necessarily commend themselves to the lovers of our early history and historic men of Wisconsin.
The manuscript contributions of the year need not be specified in detail, as all, save a paper on early recollections of Wisconsin, by the late Hon. John Phelps, appear in the new volume just issued.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR EXCHANGES.
One hundred copies of " Wisconsin in the Centennial," from the Centennial Commissioners ; a large number of reports of the Wis- consin Editorial Association, through Hon. James Ross, secretary ; 100 copies of Transactions of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society for 1875 ; 25 copies of Transactions of the State Horticultural Society ; 50 copies each of the Governor's Message and Docu- ments, Journals of the Senate and Assembly, and of the Laws of Wisconsin for 1876, in 2 volumes; and 45 copies of the Legisla- tive Manual for 1876, from the State ; 2 copies each of Whitford's Hist of Education in Wisconsin, Salisbury's Normal Schools, Carpenter's University of Wisconsin, Chapin's Colleges of Wis- consin, and three copies of Report of Supsrintendent of Pablio Instruction, 1875, from Hon. Edward Searing; 25 copies of Sten- nett's Northwest Illustrated, 1876, from Chicago and Northwest- cm Railway; 24 copies of the Statutes of Congress, 1875-76, from Gov. Ludington ; 10 copies of Crawford's Forty Years of the Presbyterian Church of Green Bay; and 20 copies of Durrie's Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Madison.
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library improvkmenta
Early in the past year, the two towers of the south wing of the
capitol, were properly fitted up, by direction of the Governor, otie
for the reception of our large collection of pre-historic antiquities
of Wisconsin, of the stone and copper age, aud the other for the
better arrangement of our maps, and bound files of Milwaukee
newspapers. Additional desks have been provided, with closet
room beneath. These improvements have been both timely and
convenient
the centennial.
Ourexhibitatthe Centennial embraced nearly all of our pre-his- toric implements, and the more important portion of our large col- lection of the stone age — 154 coppers; 2,890 stone implements; also 39 fragments of ancient pottery, and several human bones taken from a mound in Polk County. This archaeological collec- tion attracted deserved attention — the more so, as the number of copper pre-historic findings are more numerous than any collection known to have beenmade. ProfessorButler went to Philadelphia as our Archaelogical commissioner, arranging their display ; and E. T. Sweet, M. S., had charge of the collection duriog the ex- hibition, and deserves the Society's thanks for his faith (ul watch- care over it
LIBRARY WORK.
The Librarian and assistants have well acquitted themselves in the discharge of their routine duties; in keeping up the increas- ing labor of cataloguing the steady accretions to the Library ; at- tending to the system of exchanges with kindred institutions; keeping the serial publications arranged for binding, and giving proper attention to the wants of visitors. And Mr. Isaac Lyon, though now eighty -two years of age, is as unremitting as ever in his voluntary and unrequited attentions to visitors of the Cabinet department, of which he has for over five years had the charge.
CONCLUSION.
In concluding our twenty-third Annual Report, we can but re- new our firm conviction of the large and diversified good the So
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ciety is accomplishing ; in gathering and disseminating the history of Wisconsin; in collecting and preserving our current newspa- per files; furnishing resources for investigators in our varied de- partments of learning; and in aiding the students of our State University in their preliminary training for spheres of future trust and usefulness.
Such an institution, whose opportunities for extending its be- neficent labors are constantly on the increase, needs enlarged fa- cilitie& A new building is one of its wants, which, with a return of general prosperity, will undoubtedly be provided, because its necessity and utility are alike so obvious; while another equally important matter — the Binding Fund — should be nurtured by every means we can devise — a Fund that should be regarded as the result of the free-will offerino^s of the Societv^s friends within and beyond the limits of Wisconsin.
Has not the Society friends who will remember it with gener- ous benefactions ? John Jacob Astor and his son devoted hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to the founding of a Public Library ; and their example is being followed by James Lenox, a gentle- man of New York City, of large benevolence. The late Greorge Peabody gave, altogether, a million and four hundred thousand dollars to found an institute of scienoe, literature, and the fine arts, in Baltimore; and two hundred and twenty thousand dollars to establish an institute, lyceuin and library in his native town of Danvers, Massachusetts. The late Hon. Samuel Appleton be- queathed ten thousand dollars to the Massachusetts Historical So- ciety, and Mr. Peabody as much more ; Elliott Cresson that amount to the Pennsylvania Historical Society; and the late Henry D. Gilpin considerably more for the benefit of the Pennsylvania and Chicago Historical Societies. Within a few months, the late F. C. T. Smith bequeathed ten thousand dollars to the New Hamp- shire Historical Society. Hon. Stephen Salisbury donated five thousand dollars to the American Antiquarian Society for bind- ing purposes alooe.
We have been ten years trying to establish a Binding Fund for our Society, and it has not yet reached five thousand dollars — not half what it should be, to enable its income to meet all the wants
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of the Society in this direction. Let us hope that you, men of Wisconsin, who are in comfortable circumstances, will yet da something worthy to perpetuate your names and memories, by providing liberal donations and bequests to our Society. Tt will deservedly secure you a reputation more enduring than brass or marble, and far more useful to humanity than all the wealth you could transmit to your offspring — for wealth thus bestowed, oftener proves a curse than a blessing.
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Submitted January 2, 1878.
The past year has, by purchases, gifts and exchanges, brought its accustomed additions to the Library. Books, pamphlets and periodicals have been multiplied, the Portrait Gallery enriched, the Cabinet and Pre-Historic collection largely increased, and new augmentations made to the manuscript stores of our Wisconsin^ history.
FINANCIAL condition — BINDING FUND.
The receipts of the year into the General Fund, as shown by the Treasurer's report, including the small balance of the previous year, have been $5,014.25; and the disbursements, $4,997.81, leaving an unexpended balance of $16.44.
During the year, the Binding Fund has received but four do- nations— $50 from Hon. Andrew Proudfit, the balance of a pledge of one hundred dollars to this Fund ; $20 from Rev. R. M. Hodges, D. D., one of our Honorary Vice-Presidents, being the sixth annual contribution of that amount; $20 from ** A Friend;" and $5 from Hon. Philo White; duplicate books and pamphlets sold, $272.95; accrued interest, $351.45; annual membership dues, net, $75.70; thus showing an addition of $795.10, and making the total present amount of this important fund, $5,595.51.
The promised gift of six hundred and forty acres of Texas land, for the benefit of this Fund, by the late Hon. John Catlin, has recently been kindly conveyed to the Society by Mrs. Catlin and?
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dangbter, and the deed sent to Coleman, the county seat of the county of that name, in which the land is located, for record. It is a new count;, just organized, and is represented as a thriving r^ion, where stock-raising is the cKief inlustry, but where wool- growing and farming are steadily advancing. This noble gift will eventually prove a fine addition to our Binding Fund, and will serve yet more strongly to embalm Mr. Catlin's memory in our affections ; and to Mrs. Catiin and daughter is our Society deeply indebted for their kind attention in consummating the liberal intentions of the donor.
It will be a happy day for the Society when this Binding Fund shall reach the hoped for amount, the income of which will provide for the needful binding of books, pamphlets, magazines, reviews and newspaper files, many of which are now necessarily laid aside till this resource shall become avaihbla No friend of the Soci- ety can render it more acceptable service than by contributing to the Binding Fund, even though the amount should be but small
LIBBABr ADDITIONS.
The Library additions of the year have been 1,818 volumes, o! which 1,230 were acquired by purchase, and 553 by donation and exchange ; and 5.090 pamphlets, of which 2,8i3 were secured by donation, exchange and mounting newspaper slips, and 2,242 by purchase. Of the book additions, 260 were folios and 120 quar- tos; increasing the number of folios in the L'brary to 2,649, and the quartos to 3,069, and both to 5,718.
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PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY INCREASE.
The past and present coaditioQ of the Library is shown in the following table:
Date.
1854, Jan. 1
1855, Jan. 2
1856, Jan. 1
1857, Jan. 6
1858, Jan. 1 lj859,Jan 4 1800, Jan. 3
1861, Jan. 2
1862, Jan. 2 1B63, Jan. 2 1864 Jan 2 1865, Jan. 3 1B66, Jan. 2
1867, Jan. 3
1868, Jan. 4
1869, Jan. 1
1870, Jan. 4
1871 Jan. 3
1872 Jan. 2
1873. Jan. 2
1874. Jan. 2
1875. Jan. 2 1676 Jan. 4
1877, Jan. 2
1878, Jan. 2
ToUl..
Yolnmes added.
50
1,000
1,065
1,005
1,024
1,107
1,800
887
610
544
248
520
868
923
5,462
2,838
928
1,970
1,211
2,166
1.852
1.946
2,851
2.820
1.818
Documents
and pamphlets.
86,957
1,000
2,000
800
959
500
723
1,134
711
2,373
356
226
806
2.811
1,043
682
6,240
1,372
8,789
1,528
l,i78
1,186
1,764
2,i336
5,090
Both together.
^••
50 2.000 8,065 1,305 1,983 1,607 2,528 1.971 1,821 2,917 604 746 1,174 3,734 0,505 3,520 7,163 3.342 5,000 3,694 5,030 3,131 4,615 5,156 6,908
40,107
77.064
ToUl Id Library.
50 2,050 5,115 6,420 8,403 10,010 12,588 14,504 15,825 18.749 19,34a 90.0^ 2t,26» 25,000 81.505 85.025 42.1P8 45.580 50,530 54.224 57.254 60,885 65,000 70. 156 77,064
PRINCIPAL BOOK ADDITIONS.
American Ilistory and Literature, — Columbus and Vespucci, Voyages to America, fac simile copies, 7 vols, folio ; Le Moine's Florida E.Kpedition of 1564 ; Margry's Discovery and Establish- ment of the French in America, 1614-85, 2 vols. 4 to.; Stevens* Two Thousand American Nuggets, 1490-1800; Mission du Can- ada, 1672-1779, 2 vols.; Journal and Letters of Eliza Lucas, of South Carolina, 1739-61 ; Proceedings Relative to Captain Kidd, 1701, 4 to.; Ellis' Voyages to Hudson's Bay, 1746-47; Indian Treaties made by Sir Wm. Johnson, 1755-56 ; Crespel's Travels in North America [Wisconsin], 1728, eta; Gov. Bernard's Letters
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to Gen. Gage ami others, 1769, 2 vols.: Backus' History of New England, and the Baptist Church, 1777-96, 3 vols.; Connecticut Public Records, 1751 ; Chevalier Johnstone's Memoirs of the Re- bellion of 1 746 -46 ; Marquis Du Qiiesne Vindicated, 1728; Bao. croft's Native Races of the PdciBc Stales, o vols.; .T. Adams' Po- litical Essays. 177-1-75; Enquiry into the Conduct of Gen. Bur- gpyns, and his Reply, 1777, 2 vols,; Gen. Burgoyne's Military Orders, 1780 ; Cockings' American War, 1781 ; Ciititon's Reply to Lord Cornwallis, 178^ ; Gilbert's Indian Captivity, 1700 ; De- bates in Congress on .lay's Treaty, 1794 ; American Ramembran- cer (Jay's Treaty), 1795; Adveotares of Geo. Du Portail, 1797; Cullender's Hi-story of U.S., ITS'? ; Callender's Letters to Alex- ander Hamilton.
New Hampshire Stale Registers, 1793-1873, io vols. ; Living- ston's Eminent Americans, 4 vols. ; Ammidowo's Historical Col- lections, 2 vols, ; Tomes' War with the South, 3 vols,, 4 ta ; Barnes' Biographies, etc. of 43d Congress, 3 vols., 4 to. ; Lives of Chief Fathers of New England, 6 vols. ; Tomes' Battles of America, 3 vols., 4 to. ; Friends' Annual Monitor, 18.^5-63, 7 vols.; Drake's Ms. Bosk of Autographs, 4 to.; Foote's Bench and Bar of the South, 2 vols. ; Duvallon's Spanish Colonies of tbe Mississippi, 1802; Goodenough's Ohio Northern Boundary; O'Neall's Bench and Bar of South Carolina, 2 vols. ; Mahan's History of Amer. War. 1877 ; Peters' History of Conn. ; Hecke- weider's Indian Nations; Confederate Public Documents, 1883 ; The Balloting Book — N Y, Military Bounty Linda, folio ; Con- troversy between H. Laurens and E. Jennings, 2 vols. ; Gen. Dearborn and Mr. Swett on Battle of Banker Hill ; Biographical Cyclopedia of I'enn., 4 to. ; Centennial Records, Women of Wis- consin, 4 to. ; Maine Historical Collections, 2 vols. ; Carii'a Amer- ican Letters, 1733, 2 vols. ; Mori's Life and Resonrces in America ; Parton's Sketches of Men of Progress, 4 to. ; Bourne's History of Wells and Kennebunk; Wilder's Annals of Kansas; Young's History of Warsaw, N. Y. ; Fallouton'a History of Raymond, N. n.: Young's History of Mexico, 1520-1847; McSherry's Letters on the History of Maryland ; Winfield's History oE County of Hudson, N, J, ; Pearce's Annals of Luzerne Co., Pa. ; Good.-
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rich and Tattle's History of Indiana ; McKnight's Our Western Border ; Hough's American Constitutions of States, 2 vols. ; Lanman's Biographical Annals of Civil Government of U. S. ; Ball's History of Lake Co., Ind. ; Bowen's America Discovered by the Welsh; Andrews' Tour in Minnesota, 1856; Montgomery's History of Jay Co., Ind.
Morris' Rambles in Rocky Mountains, 1864; Tuttle's History of Border Wars ; Hunter s Western Border Life ; Voyage to Kentucky, 1821 ; Anderson's British American Colonies, 1814; Sanborn's History of New Hampshire ; Van Ness' Examination of Charges against Aaron Burr, 1803 ; Captivity of Mrs. Lewis in Black Hawk War ; Buck's History of Bucks County, Penn- sylvania; Captivity of Mrs. Plummer, 1838; Lucas' Charters of Old English Colonies in America ; Tour through Virginia, Ten- nessee, etc., 1828; Cheetham on Conduct of Aaron Burr ; Vindi- cation of John Adams, 1800; Royce's Protestant Episcopal Church in United States, 1859; Ross' Expedition to Oregon, etc., 18i9 ; Schermerhorn's View of United States West of Allegha- nies, 1814; Hough's Northern Invasion, 1780; Mill's History of Mexico ; Gordon s Historic Memoir, North American Continent, 1820, 4 to.; Nevin's Men of Cumberland Valley; Hawley's Travels to Western Reserve, etc., 1822 ; History of the Western World, 2 vols. ; Gray and Glazier's History of Gardiner, Massa- chusetts; Sanford's History of Berkley, Massachusetts; Hollo- way's History of Kansas; Brook's History Mexican War; McMahon's Historical View Maryland ; Shurtleff's History of Boston; Martin's History, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Banvard's Pioneers of Maryland ; Landai's Memorial, 1777 ; Presbyterian- ism in Western Pennsylvania ; Lytle's History Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania ; Curley's History Nebraska ; Baker's Texas Scrap Book ; Fairchilds' Cuyahoga Falls; Duis' History McLean County, Illinois ; Butler's Great Lone Land ; Bryant's History of United States ; Atkinson's Kanawha County, Virginia ; Wilkin- son's History of Binghampton, New York ; Hanson's History of Old Kent, Maryland ; Davis' History of Bucks County, Pennsyl- vania ; Beach's Indian Miscellany ; Beach's History of Cornwall, New York; Masten's History of Cohoes; Stein wehr's Centennial
Gazetteer of United States ; Doty'e History of Livingston County, New York ; Stone's History of New York City; Kinzie's Wau- bun, 2J edition : History of Kent County, Michigan ; Erwin's History of Williamaon County, Illinois; The First Century of ibe Republic; Smith's History of Guilford, Connecticut; Life and CorrespooJeiics of B. Cartwright ; Johnson's History of Erie Counlv, New York; Buck's History of Milwaukee; Massa- cbusetls Historical Society Collection?, 1877, 2 vols.; Ball's His- tory of Lnke("ounty, Indiana; Sanderson's History of Charlea- towo, New Hampshire ; Hunt's History of Coshocton County, Ohio; Maine Historical Society Collections, 2 vols. ; Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer; Larned's History of Windham County, Connecticut ; Parlcman's Count Froniennc ; Egle's His- tory of Pennsylvania; Bingham "a History of Green County, "Wiwonsin; Stone's Burgoyne Campaign; Nason's History of Dunstable, Massachusetts ; Park &. Company's History of Madi- son and Dane County, WiEconsin; and Weiss' History of Troy, New York.
English and Continental History and Literature. — Neander's Church History, 10 vols. ; Reports of Royal Commission, England, on Historical Mss., 1874-77, 8 vols, folio; Inedited Documents on French History, 7 vols. 4 to. ; Reed's Lecture's on British Poets, 4 vols. ; Wilsou'o Traditionary Tales of Scotland, 3 vols., 4 to. ; Walpole's Eeign of George IH., 2 vola; Ancient Irish Histories, 1571-1596, 4 to. ; Bennett's History of Dissenters, 2 vols, ; Bu- chanan's History of Scotland, 1827, 4 vols. ; Wrottlesey's Life of Sir John Burgoyne, 2 vols, ; Memoirs Relative to French Revo- lution, lf^24, 2 vols, ; Nicholas' Annals and Antiquities of Wales, 2 vola. ; History of British Empire, 1765-83, 2 vols.; Kemblc's State Papers of State of Europe, 1636-1707 ; Borbstaedt's Franco- German War, 1873; Dumas' Memoirs of his o«n Time, 1829, 2 vols. ; Earll's Native Races of Indian Archipelago ; Echard's History English Revolution, 1688 ; D'Alton's History County of Dublin ; Geijer's History of the Swedes ; Parkyns' Monastic and Baronial History, etc., 2 vola
Works on Science, etc — Rafinesque's Botanical and other works, 14 vols. ; Hitchcock's Mass. Geological Reports, 1838-12,
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6 vol8. ; Journal of Franklin Institute of Pa., 1828-46, 88 vols. ; Timms* Year Books of Science and Art, 1839-71, 11 vols. ; Man- chester, Eng., Literary and Philosophical Society Memoirs, 5 vola ; Geological Survey of Kentucky, 4 vols. ; Proceedings of Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Science, 1846-60, 4 vols. ; Memoirs Boyal Society Northern Antiquaries, 1840-44 ; Catalogue of Mu- seum of Royal Irish Academy; Clarke's Serpent and Siva Wor- ship ; Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, or Ancient and Modem Science, 2 vols. ; International Congress on Pre-Historic Archaeology ; Spinetto on Hieroglyphics and Egyptian Antiquities ; and Geol- ogy of Wisconsin, 1878-77, 4 to.
Cyclopedias, — Appleton's New American Cyclopedia, 10 vole.; Zeirs Popular Cyclopedia, 2 vola, 4 to.; Johnson*s Universal Cyclopedia, concluding 3 vols., 4 to.; Beeton's Cyclopedia, 2 vols.; McClintock's and Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, vol. 7 ; Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia for 1876 ; and Brewer's Dic- tionary of Phrase and Fable.
Oenealogies. — Addington Family, Alden, Annin, Bisbee, Bol- ton, Booth, Bradford, Caldwell, Cary, Coit, Colden, Crosby, Dwight (in 2 vols.), Eddy, Folsom, Griscom, Heacock, Hubbard, Hutchinson & Marbury, Kirk, Lapham, Lloyd & Carpenter, Men- denhall, Monroe, Newton, Payne & Gore, Pierce, Potts, Bicker, Robinson, Harwood & Clarke, Spalding, Sweet, Talcott, Upton, Valentine & Wight ; also Bardsley's Eoglish Surnames, and New Haven Burial Ground (3 vols.).
Miscellaneous. — Biblia Pauperum, reproduced in fac simile, folio; Inquiry ipto Supernatural Religion, 2 vols.; Works of Count Agenor De Gasparin, 8 vol&; AstWs Origin and Progress of Writing, 1808, 4 to.; Taylor's History of Transmission of Ancient Books ; KavaoaghH Origin of Language; Wall's Exam- ioatioo of Ancient Jewish Orthography, d vol&, folio ; Hicksito Controversy, 1881, 2 vol&
Periodical LOeraiure, -r- National Magazine, 1852-58, 18 vols. ; Loudon's Magazine of Nat. History, 1829-87, 11 vols. ; Howitt's People's Journal, 1846-48, 7 vola ; Notes and Queries, 1871-76, 12 vols. 4 to. ; U. S. Oatholic Magazine, 1848-47, 5 vols. ; Court MiaceUany, 1769-71, S vcJs. ; N. T. Jouraalof Medicine, 1848-55,
25 vols. ; BostoQ Monthly Anthology, 180(3-10, 5 vols. ; U. S. Army and Navy Journal, 1863-71, 8 vols. ; Smith'a Military Ee- posilory, 1796-97; Hatching's California Magazine, 185fi-59, 3 vols.; Moral Advocate, 1822-24; The Friend, 1832; Smith'a Weekly Volume, Phila., 1805; Spirit of the PiigHms, 1828-31, 6 vols.; Patent Office Gaxetle, 1875, 2 vols ; N. American Re- view, 2 vols. ; Living Age, 2 vols. ; American Journal of Science, 1858-60, 63, 1871-73, 10 vols.; N. England Hist. Register, 1876; WIa Journal of Etlucation,4 vols. ; Publishers' Weekly. 1874-76, 5 vols. ; II. S. Literary Gazette, 1825-27, 5 vola ; London Sta- tistical Society, 1842; Potter's American Monthly, 1576, 2 vols. ; Old and New, 1870-74, 4 vok; Godey's Lady's Book, 1862, 68, 65-68, 5 vols. ; Ladies' Repository, 1841^1, 4 vola ; Gentleman's Magazine, 1838-39, 3 vols. ; National Recorder, 1819-21. 5 vols. ; Old Guard, 1863. 1 vol. ; Ti)-D;iy, a B >ston Literary Journal, 1852, 2 vols. ; N. Y. Weekly Museum, 1815.
Unhound Newspapers und Henals. — Harpers' Weekly, 1857-75, 20 vols., complete, purchased ; Boston Index, Feb., 1873-May, 1877. from E. Burdiek ; The Balance, Hudson, N. Y., March, 1802 ; three numbers of Vor«e Herald, published by the Mormons io Wisconsin, 1843^7, from Hon. M, P. Lindsley ; American Journal of Science, July-Dec, 1872, purchased; PopuUir Science Uonthly, May, 1872-Nov., 1874, purchased ; National Quarterly Review, 1861-74, 23 number.'?, purchased ; The Old and New, Vd. 6, from Rev. R R Hale; Cumberland Presbyterian Church Quarterly, Vol. 12, 1876, from Rev. Dr. J. B. Lindsley ; Gard- ners' Monthly, 1874^75, and Historical Magazine, 1857-61, from Dr. Lapham's estate ; American Apol'o, 1792, purchased ; Har- pers' Magazine, Dec. 1876 -Feb., 1877, from 0. P. Chapman; American Missionary, 1867-76, incomplete; Christian World, 1861-76, complete; American and Foreign Christian Union, 1880 ; Missionary Herald, 1874-76, and Home Missionary, 1864- 77, all from Hon. Geo. W. Bradford; Soribner's Monthly, 1870- 76, incomplete, purchased; Catholic World, 1865-76, incomplete, purchased ; Transactions of Royal Society, London, 3 parts, 1853, 1860 and 1861, purchased ; The Galaxy, incomplete, 1867-74, purchased.
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Maps and Atlases. — Walling's Atlas of Wisconsin, 1876, 4 to. Warner & Footers Atlas of Grant County, Wis., 1877, 4 to. Warner & Footers Map of Monroe County, Wis., 1877, on rollers Atlas of State of N. Y., 1838 ; Blanchard's Map of U. S. Terri- torial Acquisitions, 1877 ; Zeno's Maps of Northern Seas, etc., 1558, 3 maps; Illustrated Alias of Indiana, 1876, 4 to. ; MolFs Atlas Manuale, 1713, folio ; and MolFs Atlas Minor, 1732, folio. Also sixty-four maps, various, in sheet form, from Dr. Lapham's estate, showing an addition of 75 Atlases and Maps, and making the whole collection 723.
Bound Nevjspaper Files, — The following additions indicate their
number, and the period of their publication :
Tears. VoU.
Lloyd's EvenlngPost 1758-69 20
Penn. Packet and Daily Advertiser 1788-90 3
Penn. Daily Advertiser 1791-95 4
Boston Federal Orrerv 1795-96 1
Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser 1797-99 3
Vermont Journal 1798 1
Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser 1800-07 8
New York Herald J802-05 1
Philadelphia Political and Commercial Register. . . 1804-07 8
Vermont Journal 1811-13 1
Baltimore Patriot and Advertiser 1813-15 6
Albany Christian Visitant 1815-16 1
Washington National Intelligencer 1816-22 3
Charleston, S. C , Sunday Visitant 1818-19 1
New England Galaxy 1819-20 1
Vermont Journal 1820-21 1
New York Minerva 1823-25 5
Burlington, N. J., Saturday Evening Visitor 1825 1
Richmnnd, Va., Enquirer 1829-31 2
Philadelphia Banner of the Constitution 1830-32 2
Al bany Zod iac 1835-36 1
New York Albion 1840-58 9
Albany Tocsin of Liberty, and Weekly Patriot 1842-43 1
Scientific American 1853-54 4
Vanity Fair 1861 1
Annual Financial Review 1870 1
Railway Monitor Ib73 1
Chicago Industrial Age 1873-75 1
Boston Adveitiser 1873-75 1
Chicago Standard 1874-75 1
Cincinnati Gazette 1875 1
Congressional Record 1875 8
Chicago Times 1875-77 8
Chicago Tribune 1875-77 9
New York World 1875-77 9
New York Tribune 1875-77 7
Chicago Railway Gazette 1876 1
Wisconsin daily and weekly papers 1874-77 102
Total 234
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Thirty-two volumes of the^e newspaper additions are of the last •century; making the total in the Library of the seventeenth cen- tqry, 62 volumes; of the eighteenth century, 393 volumes; of the present century, 2,449 ; grand total, 2,904.
The number of periodicals now received by the So3iety is 209, fourteen more than last year ; of which 4 are quarterlies, 12 month- lies, 2 semi monthlies, 180 weeklies, 2 semi-weeklies, and 9 dailie?. Of these 181 are published in Wisconsin, a noble contribution from the editors and pablisbers of our State.
Pamphlet Additions. — The pamphlet additions of the year have been unusually large, more so than in any preseding year, with a single exception. We should never weary in attesting their value, and urging their preservation and contribution to our archives. " Pamphlets," says Lord Beaconsfield, "those leaves of an hour, and volumes of a season, and even of a week, slight and evanes- cent as they appear, and scorned at by opposite parties, while each cherishes its own, are in truth the records of the public mind, the secret history of a people which does not always appear in the more open narrative.*'
In a report on Harvard Library, by the late librarian, J. Langdon Sibley, it was justly said, that though they often require more time and labor to collect than the same number of volumes, and are con- stantly said to cost more than they are worth, yet they contain in- formation not elsewhere to be found; they reflect the spirit and sentiments of the age better than elaborate treatises, and are indis- pensable treasures in a good public Library, where eminent histo- rians, biographers, staticians, statesmen and men of letters, in general, naturally look for whatever may shed light on the sub- jects of their investigation. They are so small, too, that they are likely to be torn in pieces, and every copy of entire editions to disappear.
" The correctness of these statements," adds Mr. Sibley, " is con- firmed by the action of the Bodleian Library, which is paying fab- ulous prices for pamphlets and books that its founder did not think worth preserving, and of the British Museum, which is doing the same for what could have been procured a century ago for little more than the asking — the rubbish of one generation being the 4— St. His. Boa
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treasure of another. It is, therefore, desirable at once, so far as practicable, to secure at least for a few public Libraries, copies of everything which is printed, for in the mysterious diversity of hud an investigations, there is nothing which may not at some time be important"
When a single paper mill, in a single year, has been known to grind up ninety-eight tons of books and pamphlets, with about the same quantity of newspapers, we may well be admonished of the danger of the utter loss of many important pamphlet publi- cations, and to plead for their contribution to our collection.
Summary of Library Additions.
Vols,
Bound newspaper files 284
Magazines and Re dews 189
American History and Travel 187
American Local History Ill
HtHte Histories and documents 241
United Mates documents and surveys .... 154
American Civil War 79
Historical and learned Societies 21
Biography 108
Genealofry 41
European History, etc 55
American Indians 27
Antiquities and Arcliaeology 7
British Patent Reports 56
American Patent Reports 14
Cyclopedia!i and Dictionaries 20
Language and Littrrature 18
Bibliography 18
Political Economy, Banking, etc 20
Canadian History 9
Po) itics and Government. ... 47
Religious History, etc 69
Education 21
Science 42
Medical Literature 18
Secret Societies... 8
International Exhibition 9
Directories 24
Poetry, etc 16
Bound Atlases 6
Almanacs 2
Miscellaneous 12
Total book additions 1.818
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DONORS OP BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.
Books, Pamph.
AsDew, Samuel 1
Allen.Prof. W. F 8
Allen, Rev. Z 1
American Board — For Missions 11
Aodovcr Theological Beminury 1
Andrews, Prest. J. W 8
Astor Library 1
Baird, Henry C 6
Bancroft, H. H. 5
Bangs & Co 6
Barber, Ge^. W 4
Barber. J. W 1
Barnes, Hon. M 1 ••••
Bartlat, 8. C 1
Bascom, Prest. John 1
Bates, Phi neas, Jr 1
Baltle,K.P 2
Bean,Theo. W 1
Beloit College 2
Bigelow, Hon. John 2 .... 1
Bingham, Miss H. M 1
Blue,M.P 8
Board man, 8. L 4
Bodley, Miss Rachel L 1
B3oth, Jas. H 1
Boston Atbsenenm (by exchange) 16 .... 882
Boston City Hospital 1
Boston Cochituate Water Board 1
Boston Public Library (by exchange) 651
Boyce, H 2
Bradford, Dr. Geo. W 14 •... 200
Brazil, Government of 8
Brock,R.A 1 .... 2
Bronson Library Fund 2
Bock, J. 8 ••• • • 1
Butler, Hon. A. R R 1
Butler, Prof. J. D 2
Butler, Mrs. J. D 1
Butterfleld,C W 1
Cameron. Hon. Angus ••• 4 .... 1
Campbell, J. P 1
Cartwright, Rev. R. J 1
CascF.W 2
Caswell, Hon. L. B 7
Chapman, Silas 9
Chicago Historical Society 1
Chicago Public Library 1
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad 8
Child8,E. 0 1
Christiana, University of 8
Olai borne, Hon. J . H • xi •.••••.•••.••••.....•••••• •• .... i
Clarke, Robert 2
Clnte, J. J 1
Colburn, Jere 11
Craig, Isaac 1
Davis, Rev. J. G 18
Dawson, C. C 1
Dean, J. Ward 1
PeGasparin, Countess 8
WISCONSIN State Historical Society.
Doyle, Hob. Peler
Drake, B.G
Draper, L. U
Danlap, T
Dnrria, D. 8
Barle, Dr. Pliny
Basiman, £. 0.
Ellis, Geo. A G
Xssex iD^titute
Field. T.W
Forbes, CIibb. 8
Ford, Q.W
Foaier, E, H
French, tin. Bella
French, BenJ
Oalplo, 8. A
GuiTlsna, W. P
Giles, Miaa Ella A
Gilmiin, Alfreii
Giioaricli, D. W. C
■Gonid, B. C
-O. Britain Patent Office
Oreen, Dr. a A
"L.L. H '' Newburgh, N. Y
Baines, RsT. Belden
Hale. DM
Hale.E. E
Hale, Rev. Dr. Geo
Harney, 6. J
HarrisoD, G- L
Harvard Cullego
HemeQWHy, Miss A. H
Hodges. Ber. Dr, R. M
Hoadlcy, Chaa J
HoJglDB, J. Q
HoQgb, Dr. P. B
Howe, Hon. T.O
Hoyt, A.B
HaoU L. £
Hunt, Rev. W, E
Hunter, C. L
Iowa Historical Society
Irish, Rev. J. E
JackBon, Prxncis
Jarvis. Dr. E
Jen kloB, James Q
JobnaoD. CresQcliI
EansBB Historical Boclety
£iDKsbury, Dr. A
La Fayette College
Langslon, W. J
Langwortliy, Riiv. I. P
Lnpnam estate
Lapham, W. B
Laroed, Miss E. D
Leaviti,0. A &Co
Library of Con jrcss
Lowdermilk. W.H
LufltDElon, Gov. U
Lynde, Hon. W. P.
Lyoa, Isaac
UcAlliiter, Ju
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Books, PampTL
ICafne Historical Society 2
HaoD, Cfaas 1
If anchester, Eng., Lit and Philos. Society 5
HaDninff, Robert t
;Har8h, Prof. DC. 9
^faryland Historical Society 2
If assachusetts Board of Edacation 1
If assachasetts Historical Society 2
If assachusetts Horticultural Society] 2
Merritt, J. P 1
Michigan State Library 29 .... 7
^ills.JudgeW 1
Minnesota Historical Society 1
Missouri. University of 1
Montana Hislorical Society 1
Moore,Juli%A 1
Munsell, Joel 2S
Kesbitt,Ja8 2
New England Hist, and G^nealog. Society • • 4
New Haven Historical Society 1
New York Mercantile Libr. Assoc .. 1 1
Nichols & Bhuter 1
Ohio Historical Society 1
Ohio Secretary of State 1
Oregon lioneer and Historical Society 1
Page,H.M 4
Page, Rev. J. R
Paige, Rev. Lucius R 1
Park, W.J 1
Parkmao, Francis 1
Peabody Institute, Baltimore 1
Peet, Miss Martha 1
Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind 1
Perkins, Aug. T 1
Perry, Bishop W. S 7
Philadelphia Friends* Publishing Society 7
Philadelphia Library Company 1
Philadelphia Mercantile Library 2
Power, J. C 3 8
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 24
Providence, R. I., city of 1
Pryor & Co 6
A uiney, °\/Oi, jp . u.* •••...•.•••*•••••••••••••••%••• m •••• o
~|uaritch, B 8
[ueuec Lit and Historical Society 1
ieve, Dr. J. T 1 ....
Reynolds, Rev. S 1
Rhode Island Historical Society 20
Roanoke College 1
Robinson, Rev. Dr. F. H • 1
Rosser, John 2
Boblee, Hon. H 17
Saffell, W.T. R 1
San Francisco Library Association 1
Saonderson, H. H...1 1
Scott, Geo. 0 1
Bearing. Hon.'E 1
Shaw, Hon. J as 5 .... 6
Shaw, Prof. Sam*l 1
Sbipman, Col. S. y ft
Smitlisonian Institution 1 •
.... . •
• . • • • • X
• • • • •
16
Wisconsin State Historical Society.
B^4)k»»
6
2 2 6 2
1 1
Bmucker, Isaac
fiotheran, H
Southall.D C
Southall, J. 0
Starbuck, A
OwttI &%?Jr « V> • A* ••••••••••••••■•••••••••••••••••••••
atone, Rev. E. AI
Stone, Wm. L
Stryker.W. 6
Suite. Benj
Thomas, lerrill
Thomson, PG m^
Tilden,W. 8
Turner, John
Tuttle, Rev. Dr. Jos. F
United States Centennial Commissioners
TJnited States Chief of Engineers
United States Coast Survey
United States Department of Education
United States Department of State
United States Secretary of Interior 72
United States Secretary of Treasury 2
United States Surgeon General 8
Vermilye, Rev. Dr. A. G
Vermont Historical Society
Vermont State Library 1
Vilas, Jud^e L. B
Weiss, A. J
Well9,David A
Western Cement Co
White, Philo
Wi^fht, Hon. O. W .. .
Wilkinson, Rev. J
Williams, Hon. J
Williamson, Jos .
Winfleld, Chas. H
Winthrop, Hon. R. C .
Wisconsiu Academy of ScieDces
Wisconsin ( entennial Commissioners
Wisconsin Editorial Association
Wiscoosin Natural History Society
Wisconsin Raiiroad Commissioners
Wisconsin, State of 2
Wisconsin State Library
Wisconsin State Board of Charities
Wooley, Dr. M
Yale College
Pamph, 1
1 1 2
12
1 1
12 91
1 1
1
1
1 3
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58 1
12
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1 3
ART GALLERY.
There have been added to the Art Gallery during the year, three portraits in oil, one pastel and one in crayon. One of Dr. Moses Meeker, an early pioneer of the lead region of Wisconsin, painted by A. R. Stanley, presented by Mrs. Meeker. An oil portrait of Hon. C. M. Baker, a Walworth county pioneer, painted by J. R. Stuart, gilt frame, from Hon. R. H. Baker. A large si^ed oil portrait of Lieut Gov. M. H. Pettit, painted by W. 0.
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Xnocke, with heavy gilt frame, from Mrs. Pettit A pastel por- trait of Gen. Amasa Cobb, a well known Wisconsin pioneer, in oval gilt frame, from Gen. Cobb. A crayon portrait of Wm. N. Seymour, a Madison pioneer, framed and glazed, from Mr. Seymour.
A Catalogue of the Picture Gallery and statuary has been pre- pared, now in the hands of the printer, which will prove a great x^onvenience to visitors ; and will serve to present in an embodied form, the interesting treasures of our art collections.
ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET.
Pre-Bisioric Copper Implements. — An axe, eleven inches long, six inches wide at the edge and three inches at the top, weighing five pounds and one ounce ; also two borers, one twelve and a quarter inches long, and the other eight and a half inches ; all of which were found July 5, 1877, about fifteen inches below the surface, beside the highway, three and a half miles southwest of Tomah, and near the residence of A E. Hollister, the finder ; the two borers were found lying across each other on the top of th^ axe like the letter X, — presented by Mr. Hollister.
A piercer, about three and a half inches long, found in 1866, in an ancient grave in Waupaca Co., Wis., from Mrs. Maria Thompson ; a copper spear, four and three-fourths inches long, from Dr. C. E. Wing, Neosho, Wis. ; a copper knife, six inches long, with crooked hasp, copper spear, five inches long, grooved, and a copper Hrrow, three inches long, all plowed up two miles west of Dartford, Wis., also a small piece of float copper, found in digging a post hole, all from David Wilson ; copper spear, round shank, four and a half inches long, found in Grant county, from Daniel Doughty, Durand, Pepin Co., Wis. ; copper tip for shoeing a spear, found on Lake Superior, near Ontonagon, Mich., in a pre- historic mining site, under the roots of an old fallen hemlock, from Dr. T. M. Sine, of Durand, Wis. ; forty copper beads, one half inch in length, apparently made from thin, rolled copper, one piercer, nine inches long, two others, seven inches long, one of six inches, one of five and a half inches, one of five inches, and one of three and a half inches, one hatchet, three inches
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'long and two and a quarter wide, and two one inch long and on& and a quarter wida The abo>re were found in a mound at Nine- Mile Creek, in town 29, range 7, Chippewa county ; and presented by Rev. G. W. Smith and others, of Cadott, Chippewa county^ Wisconsin.
An axe, ten and a half inches long, three and a half wide at the edge, and one and a half inches at the top, weighing four pounds, twelve and threequarier ounces, found on the "Gk)ss- Farm" near Fond du Lac, presented by Mrs. Keyes Darling.
A copper spear, about five inches long, found in town of Gran- ville, Milwaukee county, on section 31, grooved, presented by D. ^. Pilgrim ; another specimen, same size, found in Menomonee, Waukesha county, on section 27, grooved, with a hole in shank, from D. T. Pilgrim ; sosket spear- head, four and a half inches long, found at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, from James Shortall ; spear head with a tang, seven an I a half inches long, found in 1859 at Wausau, Wis., from Col. Chas. Shuter ; socket spear- head, six and a half inches long, found in 1859 by Amasa Grover, in the township of Ithica, Richland county, Wis., six inches below the surface, from J. 11. Waggoner, of Richland Center, Wis. ;. socket spear, found by W. A. Striker on section 27, town 7 north, ol range 15 east, Jefferson county, in April, 1876, from C. E. W^ Struve ; copper knife, seven inches long, found in 1874 on bank of Cedar Creek, town of Polk, Washington county. Wis., from Bernhard Mund ; spear-head, five and a halt inches long, and two inches wide, found at Belmont, Portage county. Wis., from J. D. Holman ; two small spear-heads, two and a quarter inches long,, and one inch wide, from the same, in town ?9, range 7, and pre- sented by Rev. George W. Smith and other citizens of Cadott, Chippewa county, Wisconsin ; eight copper beads, found in dig- ging a cellar in Lisbon township, t^eo miles east of Sussex, Wau- kesha county. Wis., presented by James Madden.
Thus we have added thirty one pre-historic specimens to our copper collection, all interesting, and gome remarkable, besides forty-eight ancient beads. Unusual pains and efforts have been taken to secure these curious treasures, in which the Secretary^ lias been largely assisted by Prof. Butler, chairman of the Com-
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nlttee on Prellistoric Aiitiquitioa These rich additioDs well re- pay all the efforts made in their proearemeiiL Oar present ancient copper collection now numbers one hundred and ninety artic]e3, besides the forty-eight beads — two haodred and thirty-eight
Other Aniiqnitits. — Red stone pipe, found in Grant county, 'Wis., by J. D. Wilcox, from Gen. Jaa. Sutherland ; pipe stone ^iget, found in the Potsdam sandstone drift, near Partridge ^ke, Waupaca county, five feet below the surface, from Wm. A. Springer, through J. C. Plumb; flint arrow head, found in Nor- way, Racine county, 1859, from P. A, Aunlee ; portion of a tooth o£ a, Mastodon, from Dr. M, C. Thompsou, Rock Elm, Pieroe tjounty. Wis,; a metal hatchet, perhaps of brass and copper, of -modern appearance, found in 1866, in an Indian grave in Waw- paca county, AVis., with a fragment of its wooJon handle at- tached, with a broken earthen pipe, and aorae flint arrow-heEidB, from Mrs. Maria Thompson.
Autographs. — The Register kept at WisMnsin Headqunrterft, Centennial E.^hibition, PhiUdelphta, 1876, with a separate index to names of Wisconsin visitors — a large volume, with many tboia^ands of names, from Elisha Starr; autograph signatures of Cha?. S. Ti^d and other Keatucky soldiers of the war of 1312, from E. L. Smith : fac simile of autograph letter oE Robert Barns, from Miss W. Fillans ; lease of land signed by Nathaniel Creen and Joseph Green, of Boston, Mass., to .Joseph Polwine, tA Coventry, Ct, dated Dec 5, 1770, from W. J. Ellsworth.
Cuin, ifeilah and Currenei/. — A small silver coin of Hamborg, no date ; two copper .'sous, Louis XVI, 1789; Bkilling, Danske, 1771 ; and one skilling, Charles Joseph XVI, 1810, all from Da- Tid Holt; twenty-five-cent silver coinage, LI. S, 1877, from T. H. Girard; a large bronze medal, presented by U. S. Centennial Commissioners to the Wisconsin State Historical Society for col- lection of prehistoric anli-^iiities; a len-doliar confederate bill, dated Richmond, Feb. 17, 16<31, and tweoty-five-cent bill, State 'Bank of Alabama, Jan. 1, 186S, from J. D. Holman; a collection «f bank bills of broken banks, err., amounting to $221, from
n Cbspman ; feventy-three dollars in Confederate billa, from
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Alfred Smith ; thirty-shilling bill of New Jersey, April 2, 1762, from Gen. Lucius Fairchild ; Texas treasury warrant, $2.50, June 28, 1862, and one for $1.00, from G. E. Giles ; $5 bill, Bank of Delaware county, Chester, Pa., 1863, and $5 bill of Mineral Point Bank, Wis., 1840, from unknown parties.
Natural Hislory Specimens, — A buffalo's head, a fine specimen, properly prepared — the animal was killed between the Union Paci6c and Kansas Pacific railroads, on the Colorado plains, in 1875, by Maj. K Burnett, and presented by him ; vertebrae of a small alligator from South America, from George A Balken ; group of stuffed birds (quail, blackbird, cedar bird and grosbeak), from B. H. Standish ; sea plume from Charlotte Harbor, near Tampa Bay, Florida, from Dr. C. B. Pierson ; geode, curious for- mation in the centre, from J. D. Kelly ; specimen of trap rock, sixteen inches long, found at Quincy mine. Portage Lake, near Lake Superior, Mich., obtained in drilling about 1000 feet below surface, from W. T. Brooks ; also an ornamental piece of pure copper, from Hancock Smelting Works, from the same ; small collection of pebbles, limestone, etc., from Glencoe quarries, Mis- souri, from G. W. Sargeant ; a stone, in shape of mitten, from H. Bush ; double egg, the yolk and white parts separate, from A. Coolidge.
Misscellaneous. — A cabinet sized photograph of Joseph Crelie, of Columbia County, taken from an ambrotype in 1876, from W. H. Sherman ; an election ticket for municipal officers of Salt Lake city, February 14, 1876, with the Deseret or Mormon characters upon it, or Mormon language, and a bill of exchange written by John D. Lee, the Mountain Meadow murderer, from J. W. Green- man ; a large photograph of the State capitol and grounds, framed, from Wisconsin Centennial Commissioners ; photograph of Hon. M. M. Davis, of Baraboo, framed, from Mr. Davis ; pho- tograph of a skull found in a mound near Lake Koshkonong; photograph of a skull from a mound in Fulton, Rock county, Wisconsin, and one of stone arrow- heads and beads from a mound at Lake Koshkonong — three cards from W. P. Clarke; sweet cheese, made and pressed by haod, 1868, by G. L. Kolve, Bergen, Norway, from Miss J. L. Lewis ; small piece of red cloth from.
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coat of British officer, used at Lexington, Mass., in revolutionary war, from C. H. Kimball; photographs of President R B. Hayes and Vice President W. A. Wheeler, from Isaac Datton ; twenty- two postal cards of foreign countries, from B. K. Field ; lock and shatter hinges from door of Dodge county treasurer's office, burnt September, 1877, from K B. Bolens ; Osage orange from Sterling, m., from Mr. Schofield ; fragments of shell, a bullet and two cart* ridges, found by Hon. Horace Rublee at Strasburg. France, after the siep;e of said city, from Mr. Rublee ; a small piece or float copper, found in digging a post-hole near Dartford, Wis., from David Wilson.
contributions for exchanges.
Fifty copies each of the Senate and Assembly Journals, Mes- sages and Documents, and Laws of Wisconsin, 1877 ; 100 copies of Agricultural Society Transactions, and 25 copies of Horticultu- ral Society Transactions, 25 copies Legislative Manual for 1877, and 40 copies of Geological Survey — from the State ; 19 copies of Report of Progress of Wisconsin Geological Survey for 1876, from Prof. T. C. Chamberlin ; 12 copies of Governor's Message, from Gov. Ludington ; 35 copies of Catalogue of Wisconsin Uni- versity, 1876-77, from President Bascom; 25 copies of Sparta Baths and Mineral Waters, from Nichols & Shuter; 20 copies of Beport of Madison Board of E lucation, from the Board ; 9 copies of Northwestern Centennial Address at La Crosse, July 4, 1876, by Hon. Charles Seymour, from Mr. Seymour ; 8 copies of 19th session of Wisconsin Editorial Association, from Gen. D. Atwood ; 100 copies of 3d vol. of Transactions of Wisconsin Academy of Science, and 25 each of 1st and 2d vols., do., from the Academy ; 10 copies Report of Railroad Commissioners for 1876, from Com- missioners; 12 copies State Board of Charities, 1875, from the Board ; 12 copies Report of Superintendent of Public Instruction, from Hon. E. Searing; 18 copies of Report of State Board of Health, from Dr. J. T. Reeve, Secretary ; 20 copies of Report of Board of Trade, Milwaukee, from W. J. Langston, Secretary ; 50 copies Iowa Centennial pamphlet, from Iowa Historical Society ; 8 copies of Annual Report of State Board of Charities, 1876,
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from Hon. H. H. Giles ; 33 copies of Lapbam Memorial, by Oha& Mann, from Wisconsin Natural History Association.
LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS.
During the year, the cases and closets have been supplied with new locks — a much needed improvement With a couple of ventilators, and some better protection from the occasional over- flow of the water-tank on the top of the building from which our newspaper files have repeatedly suffered injury, the rooms would be in good condition.
No one entering our rooms, and observing the over-crowding of books, newspapers and pictures, need be told that the time is near at hand when more space will be imperatively demanded.
LIBRARY WORK.
The Librarian and assistants have discharged their duties with fidelity, and have been getting matter ready for a new Catalogue, keeping up exchanges, arranging serials for binding, and meeting the constant call for brx)ks by visitors. Mr. Isaac Lyon is atten- tive and Unremitting in his courtesies (though now eighty-three years of age), as he was when he entered on the work of super- vising the cabinet, over six years ago — and all this voluntarily and without pay.
THE SEVENTH VOLUME OP COLLECTIONS.
The new volume of Collections, in press at our last annual meeting, has been largely used in effecting literary exchangeS| and has met with much favor.
The Hon. Cyrus Woodman, an early settler at Mineral Point, writes from Cambridge, Massachusetts : " To me it is a volume of unusual interest. The articles from ihe pens of General Ellis, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Meirill, Mr. Tasse and Judge Doty, are all of 'special interest It is fortunate that so much light has been thrown upon the early history of Green Bay, and the remarkable men who have lived there."
MAX^USCRIPT COLLECTIONS.
Col. James M. Boyd, of Green Bay, has contributed a package of important papers relating to early Wisconsm history — mostly
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preserved by his father-in-law, Judge John Lawe, one of the ear- liest of the Green Bay pioneers, — a land conveyance by Totnah and other Menoinonee chie'"a in 1794; fourteen letters of Col. Bobert Dickson, ihe Itritish commander of the northweEtern In- dians during tiie war of 1812-15, ten oE which were dated when encamped on Lake Winnebago, in the winter of 181i, organizing the Indians for further hostilities ; an interesting letter of the British Capt Duncan Graham, dated Prairie du Cliien. March i, 1815, giving, in half a dozen foolscap pages, many particulars of that regio*], the movements of the Indians, and Col. Dickson'a operations; five documents of the celebrated Judge Reaume, the first law-giver of Green Bay, bearing date from ISO-j to 1817; three letters of Capt. John Askin, Jr., of Mackinaw, relative to the war of 1812-15; a census of Green Buy, Sept 14, 1818; letter of Hon, John Q. Adams, addressed to George Boyd, dated Ghent, Dec. 22, 181 1 ; letter of Wm. Dickson, dated Lake Trav- erse, April 18, 1821; a MS. book of 136 pastes, apparently the mathematical examples worked out by Judge Reaume in 1774, showing neatness and scholarship, with a rude deer-skin cover; also the old pocket-book of Judge Reaume.
Copies of a valuable collection of unpublished documents rela- tive to Col. Wm. McKay, LieuL Col. Robert McDouall, and Capts. Thomas G. Andereon and Joseph Rolette, in the British aervice in Wisconsin and the Northwest in 1814, have been kindly communicated to the Society by Joseph Tasse, Esq.; an incident of the Black Hawk war, from Col. Charles Whittlesey.
The Secretary, during the past year, beside making a journey in the Northwestern part of the Sute to secure some remarkable pre-bistoric topper collections, made a visit to Capt Wm. Powell, of Shawano county, a, native of Wisconsin, now bordering closely on three score and ten, and intimately connected with the Me- soiDonees and other Wisconsin tribes since 1819, and noted down a lengthy statement of his dictation, embracing bis recollections of the Menomonees and their prominent chiefs. Col. R »bert Dick- eon, the British leader of the Northwestern Indian tribes during the war oE 1812-15, and the derivation and meaning of many Indian geographical names in Wisconsin having a Menomonea
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A visit to the Oneida settlement above Green Bay, will facili- tate the preparation of a paper on the past and present condition and prospects of the Wisconsin Oneidas, and be the means of pre- serving some interesting memorials of that tribe, so rapidly ad- vancing in civilization.
By still another visit made to the venerable Hauk-mau-ne-ga, or Spoon De Kaury, now nearly four score, the Winnebago deriva- tion and meaning of many Wisconsin geographical names have been secured. Such information will have an increasing interest and value as the native Red Men fade away, leaving behind them these local names as the only monuments of their occupation of the country we now fondly claim as our own.
the society's mission and success recognized.
Our Society has, in a quarter of a century, gathered a Library of seventy-seven thousand volumes and pamphlets, of which over twenty-nine hundred are bound newspai)er files, embracing three centuries ; an Art Gallery of one hundred and thirteen paint- ings, and several interesting specimens of statuary ; a collec- tion of pre-historic antiquities relating to our own State, unequalled by any similar collection in the country ; and has issued seven volumes of Historical Collections, three of Library Catalogues^ and several addresses in pamphlet form. This success has not failed to attract attention beyond our borders, and worthily to incite emulation.
'* I am glad,'' said the late distinguished American historian, Jared Sparks, "to learn the success of your State Historioal Society. During the time since it was founded, it seems to have done more than any other similar Society in the country. It has set an example of enterprise and activity which any Society may be proud to follow."
"I hear on all hands," observes the historian, Bancroft, '* that the immediate associates of your Society are singularly zealous and diligent in gathering together, preserving, and, as far as possi- ble, in publishing the memorials of other days. "
'* I am of opinion," wrote the late historian of the Red Men, Henry R Schoolcraft, ''that the course you are pursuing, in
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obtaining personal memoirs from your pioneers, is precisely that "which promises to secure you the most valuable materials for posterity. Fifty years hence none of this class will be living to ans;¥er these questions, and the information will then have an intense value."
" On more than one occasion within the year past," writes Dr. "Wills DeHass, the well-known archaeologist, " have I heard the example of the Wisconsin Historical Society cited and commended. At New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and other points, I have heard the progress of your Society in lan- guage most complimentary to all concerned. You have, indeed, accomplished wonders. Excelsior is justly your motto."
"I would utter my feeble voice of encouragement," wrote the late Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, " and say, go on ; you are doing bravely, as I learn from your Annual Reports, which have duly reached me; and I wish every State had the good sense and lib- erality which Wisconsin has shown in making your Society an annual appropriation."
"Most gladly do I observe the spirit with which your young Society proceeds," writes the venerable historian, Hon. James Savage, of Boston, "and I feel confident that a coming generation will examine your volumes of Reports and Collections, even with a higher satisfaction than has been felt by me."
"Yours is a very active and vigorous young Society," writes the historian, Parkman. "The value of your Society's Collec- tions, under the capable editorship," observes Dr. John Gilmary Shea, " can only be appreciated by those who, like myself, have to use them in elucidating early history. That test shows their real importance and worth, which may not appear to any ordinary reader."
" Inspired with zeil by the efforts and examples of your So- ciety," writes Hon. C. I. Walker, of Detroit, " we are endeavoring to awaken attention to our early history, and to collect and pre- serve such materials of that history as are still within our reach ; " and Hon. C. C. Trowbridge, also of Detroit, and who accompanied Gen. Cass in his Wisconsin exploration nearly fifty eight years ago, adds: "I am fille-i with admiration when I look at the
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resume of your work. How the savant of Europe of the Yatte- mare family must open their big eyes when they read Wieeousin's/ story. I wish you and your compeers had lived in MicbigpiQ. Then we, too, might hare had something to show of our past hisr tory."
*' The Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin," writes Hon. T. W. Field, in his elaborate work on Indian Biblio- graphy, '* is one of the noblest collections ever made by any His- torical Society. It is a yaat mass of original material, written mostly by border warriors, pioneers, voyagers, and others, who saw the events of which they wrote. By far the lai^est portion relates to the Aborigines who once occupied the territory. It is . to the intelligence and zeal of the learned antiquary, Lyman C. Draper, that the public are indebted for this model of Historical Collections."
To append the friendly expressions of leading citizens of our own state, where all can judge for themselves, seems hardly nec- essary. A few only may be adduced :
" There is no institution of the State," writes Gov. Washburn, ^' that the people should be more proud of than the Historical Society — built up to its present great proportions."
" You can have no better monument," writes Gov. Lewis, " than the grand collection you have been instrumental in bringing to* gether at our State House. The people of the State are inter- ested in having the work continued."
"I am deeply interested," writes Hon. John F. Potter, "in all that relates to the early history of our State, and I am sure the grateful thanks of all our people are due to you for the industry, perseverance and ability which have marked your long connec- tion with the Society."
"No Commonwealth of the age of ours," remarks Hon. H. D. Barron, " has the priceless gathering of historical treasures that we have. And they have been brought to us by you with a care and industry, a judgment and economy that some other person might have used, but which I do not believe any one else in the broad State would have displayed."
" All intelligent and honest men," writes Hon. J. T. Kingston^
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^' must acknowledge and do acknowledge, that yours has been a great work in the interest of the State — a work, in fact, which no other man in the State could have performed so thoroughly and so well."
" It does not seem possible," observes Hon. A. R B. Butler, ^' that the Legislature can fail to comprehend the importance to €he State of strengthening your hands in your unselfish efforts ^to promote the interests of the Historical Society."
" The Historical Society of Wisconsin,^' remarks Hon. Cyrus TVoodman, "adds to the glory not of Wisconsin alone, but of our "whole country."
Similar flattering commendations come from Hon. Alexander Hitchell, Hon. James Sutherland, Hon. M. M. Davis, Hon. George Oary, Hon. William C. Allen, Gen. John H. Bountree, C. E. Britt, Hon. Sat Clark, and others.
CONCLUSION.
It is not necessary, on this occasion, to dwell upon the import- ance of public libraries to an enlightened community or State — that by such collections, books are brought together upon almost every conceivable subject, utterly beyond the ability of individ- uals to purchase, and placed where all may freely consult them.
It has been well said, that true self-education begins where the colleges leave off ; hence the true mission of libraries should be to furnish the proper appliances to encourage and carry forward this process of self-culture. "The stores of fa^ts and thoughts, and the exemplification of methods accumulated in books, are zieeded to harmonize and give a purpose to mental action."
By citing a few recent benefactions to public libraries, it may serve to show that we are not alone in our estimate of the value of such institutions.
The late Oliver Newberry, of Chicago, left a colossal estate, estimated at about five millions of dollars, one-half of which, with a liberal forethought and wise discrimination, was reserved for a public library in the city of his residence ; and the New- berry Library, with such a generous provision, will soon enter
upon a career of great usef ulnesa 5 — St. H18.S00.
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James Lenox, of New York City, has proved himself one of the most munificent library donors of any age. For more than half a century he has been gathering one of the richest collections of books and manuscripts extant; in complete folio and old editions of the Bible, and parts thereof, it leads the world, far surpassing even the large and noble collection in the British Museum, backed as this great Government library is, by the unstinted money grants of the British Government In the Lenox collection are thousands of manuscripts and volumes of Americana; five copies of the almost priceless first folio edition of Shakespeare ; the Mazarin and other rare early editions of the Bible ; six copies of Elliott's Indian Bible — the first Bible printed in America^ which one person only now living, Hon. J. H. Trumbull, can read. Supplementing this large and invaluable collection is a costly and choicely selected gallery of paintings. For all these literary and artistic treasures, Mr. Lenox has provided a spacious building — the value of the ground and cost of the edifice exceeding a million of dollars — dedicating the whole to the use and benefit of the public, declaring that no necessary sums of money shall be withheld to complete the collection upon a scale commensurate with the intellectual wants of the age.
W. B. Astor's recent gift of $250,000, and J. J. Aster's of $10 000, added to the previous liberal bequests and donations of that family to the Astor Library, have greatly increased the use- fulness and efficiency of that noble institution, and enabled it to expend the past year $60,000 in making rich and valuable acqui- sitions to its literary collections.
By the liberality of Leonard Case, the Cleveland Library As- sociation has come into the possession of property valued at $300,000, yielding an income sufficient to place that institution in independent circumstances.
Judge S. C. Hastings, of San Francisco, has tendered $100,000 to found a law library for California.
The late Ezra T. Osborn, of Boston, has left one-half of his estate to the Sutton Library at Peabody, Mass., which is estimated to reach fully $60,000.
The free library of Woodbridge, N. J., had $50,000 bequeathed to it hy the late Thoa Barron.
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The late Charlotte Harris, of Boston, left a bequest of $10,000, besides her private collection of books, to the Chariestown, Masa, library ; and $2,000 to the Boston Athenoeum.
John Gardner bequeathed $5,000 to the free public library of Maiden, Mass.; and Mrs. Prof. Wm. Larned the same amount to Yale College Library.
These few instances of recent gifts and bequests to American public libraries, taken almost at random, evince the growing in- terest and unmistakable recognition on the part of thoughtful men and women in these institutions as permanent and powerful instrumentalities in supplementing and promoting the education of the people.
Oar Historical Society has not yet been the recipient of any lai*ge pecuniary benefactions. Wisconsin is yet a comparatively new State ; and, it is to be anxiously hoped, that the Society may, at no distant period, be generously remembered by its wealthy and liberal- hearted people. But until then, its reasonable sup- port can be best maintained by the State.
When Prussia was reduced to the greatest extremity by the wars of the first Napoleon — plundered of her arsenals, her coffers, and her" museums by her relentless conquerors — suffering from heavy pecuniary exactions, robbed, even, of the revenue for the endowment of schools — then, in the midst of these great public distresses, the Prussian ladies stripped themselves of their jewels and ornaments, sending them to the royal treasury, and receiving cast-iron ones in .return, bearing the inscription, ^^ 1 give gold for irori'^ This state of things lasted for half a dozen yeari, the king and public functionaries declaring that they were " convinced that liberation from extraordinary calamities is fruitless, and only to be effected by a thorough improvement of the people's education." *' It was during these unparalleled sacrifices that Prussia," says Bancroft, '' in the hour of its sufferings and its s^reatest calamities, renovated its existence partly by the establishment of schools."
The people of Wisconsin, who have passed through the trials and vicissitudes attendant upon the settlement of a new country, and patiently suffered from the self denials and sacrifices of war, will not be apt to repudiate their own intellectual and bvim^xvAaw-
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rian institutions, "Forward," not backward — is our Stute's noble and heroic motto.
That man is to be pitied who can see no good in oar Univer* sities, our Colleges, our Academies, our Normal and High schools, and last, but not least, our humble District schools — " the Colleges of the poor." And God pity the man who has no realizing sense of the value and necessity of our public libraries. He who can ruthlessly strike down or cripple these institutions — the pride o£ our people, and the boast of our age — would only equal the mon^ Bter who could amuse himself with a fiddle when his city wai^ being devoured by the fiery element
Chicago has permanently provided one-fifth of a mill tax for the support of its public library, which should yield about $60,- •000 a year. Surely the people of Wisconsin will not begrudge the pittance of a tax of the three hundred and eightyjiflh part of a ^cent on the dollar's valuation^ to maintain and gradually build up. a noble State library — one that our people will reverently gua]:d And cherish for all coming time.
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.
Submitted January 2, 1879.
Secretary Draper made the following report, in behalf of the Executive Committee, for the year 1878, which was read and adopted :
It is now a quarter of a century since our Society was re-organ- ized, in January, 1854, and entered upon a career of steady growlh and constantly increasing: usefulness. Its earlier years were neces- sarily years of "small things;*' the annual accretions, while val- uable, were not large; and not unfrequcntly the Society met with narrow escapes from the unwise. onslaughts of zealous public funo- tionariesy who, with good^ yet n^isguided intentions, thought they, were rendering the public meritorious services by efforts to destroy its efficiency and usefulness — efforts that were, in no single in« stance^ called for by the people of the State ; and which, fortu* nately for the cause o£ enlightened progress, failed of their pur-
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pose. It is to be hoped, that the Society, with its wealth of solid litektiture, and the stimulas it has given to literary taste and cul- ture— the many interesting fragments of history it has, by per- sistent efforts, gathered and preserved — will hereafter meet with the kindly encouragement it deserves.
The growth of the Library has been very satisfactory the year past, as the statistics show. All the departments of colleciioa have received more or less increase — some of them quite large. Each successive year brings with it important additions to our col- lection of American history, not a few of them rarities; so that this department of our Library is regarded as one of the very best in our country.
FINANCIAL CONDITION — BINDING FUND.
The Treasurer's report shows that the past year's receipts into the General Fund, including the small balance of the previous year, were $5,016.44 ; and the disbursements, $4,915.27, leaving an QDexpended balance of $101.17.
During the year, the following additions have been made to the Binding Fund : From Hon. C. C. Washburn, $200 : Hon. E. D. Holton, $20 ; Eev. R M. Hodges, one of the Society's honorary vice presidents, $20; duplicate books sold, $180. 17; accrued inter- est, $446.11 ; annual membership dues, net, $62.70 — thus show- ing an increase of $928.93, and rendering the total present amount of this important Fund, $6,524.49.
It may be interesting to recur to the sources of the growth of this Fund. For several years, the urgent need of a Binding Fund was presented in the annual reports of the Society ; but it was not till early in 1867, that a beginning was made by a gift of $100 from Hon. John Catlin.
The several donors, and the respective amounts of their contri- butions, have been as follows :
Hod. Alexander Mitchell $750 00
Hon. C. C. Washburn 800 00
Samuel Marshall, Esq 150 00
ReT.RM. Hodge8,D.D 140 00
Hon. John Catlin 100 00
Hon. Cyrus Woodman 100 00
Hon. G. W. Allen 100 00
Charles Falrchlld 100 00
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Hon. Andrew Proudfit f 100 00
Hon. James Sutherland 75 00
Hon. John F. Potter 60 00
Hon. Stephen Taylor 60 00
Hon. Philetns Sawyer 60 00
Hon. James T. Lewis 60 00
Col Richard Dunbar 60 00
Terrill Thomas 60 00
Gen. J. J. Guppy 60 00
Hon. M. H. Carpenter 60 00
Hon. G. W. Bradford 60 00
8. Alofsen 25 00
W.B. Champion 20 00
T.Laldler 20 00
Col. Thomas Reynolds 20 00
C. P. Chapman 20 00
Hon. R H. Baker 20 00
Hon. Gerrit Smith 20 00
Hon. Wm. Plocker 20 00
"A Friend" 20 00
Hon. E. D. Hollon . ,.- 20 00
Hon.Philo White 12 60
Gen. John Lawler 10 00
Mrs. L. M. Thomas 6 00
W.F. Sanders 2 00
Hon. Geo. Gary 2 00
J. B. Holbrook 2 00
C. M.Thurston 1 60
y.T. Haseltine 1 00
H.N. Nicholson 1 00
Hon. E. N. Foster 1 00
Dr.A.S. McDill 75
Donations f 2, COS 75
Accrued interest, 1867-78 1,795 71
Duplicate books sold 1 ,587 95
Membership fees, net 582 08
16, 524 49
At the last annual meeting of the Society, the receipt of the deed for 640 acres of land in Coleman county, Texas, — the prom- ised gift for our Binding Fund by the late Hon. John Catlin, one of the Honorary Vice Presidents of the Society, was suitably ac- knowledged for Mrs. Catlin and her daughter.
We have since learned of the death of Hon. Stephen Taylor, of Philadelphia, another of our Honorary Vice Presidents. Mr. Taylor died on the 8th of December, 1877, leaving by his will a bequest of $1,000 to our Society, to be paid after Mrs. Taylors death.
Mr. Taylor came to Wisconsin in 1835, as a prominent organ- izer of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows, establishing ?• lodge in Mineral Point in that year ; and soon after became assist*
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ant Begister oE the United States land office at that place, a posi- tion which he held till 1841. He prepared and published an early map of the Lead Begion ; and, in 1812, contributed to Silliman's Journal an interesting illustrated piper on the curious animal shaped mounds of Wisconsin. Beturning to Philadelphia in 18i3, he established himself as a conveyancer, and at one time was City Controller, A few years since, he visited our city and spent much time in the Society's rooms. He contributed valuable papers for our Collections, his portrait to our Gallery, books for our Library, and, in 1874, donated $50 to our Binding Fund. At the time of his decease, Mr. Taylor was in his seventy -third year. In his death, as in that of Mr. Catlin, our Society lost a true and sympathizing friend.
It is pertinent, also, to note the death of Bev. Bichard M. Hodges, another of the Society's Honorary Vice Presidents, and another of its benefactors, which occurred at his residence at Cambridge, Mass , Aug. 10, 1878, at the venerable age of eighty- four years. Though personally a stranger to most of us, yet he had become impressed with the value of our Society's work, and had for seven successive years regularly, on the return of each successive spring, remitted twenty dollars for our Binding Fund, making, in the aggregate, a very creditable contribution. Such men as Catlin, Taylor and Ho^jges leave behind them the savor of a good name, and the memory of worthy deeds.
The Catlin anl Taylor bequests, when realized, will add very considerably to the principal of the Binding Fund — to which accrue all gifts and bsquests, as well as membership fees, and the proceeds of the sale of duplicate books.
With the present and prospective needs of the Library, this Fund should be pushed up to not less than $L5,000, in order that its income should be adequate for all binding purposes expected of it We have hundreds of volumes of books, periodicals, news- paper files and pamphlets that are comparatively useless in their present unbound condition, awaiting the time when the income from this Fund will render them available for reference and use- fulness.
Could all the friends of the Society be induced to contribute
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liberally to the Binding Fund, they would not only make it aa early and assured success, but would share in the gratification of the ceaseless good it is destined to accomplish.
library additions.
The additions to the Library duringthe pastyear have been 2,214 volumes; of which 1,608 were by purchase, and 606 by dona- tion ; and 1,827 pamphlets and documents, of which 770 were ob- tained by purchase, and 1,057 by donation. Of the book addi- tions, 115 were folios, and 126 quartos — increasing the number of folios in the Library to 2,764, and the quartos to 3,195, and both to 5,959.
PROGRESSIVE LIBRARY INCREASE.
The past and present condition of the Library is shown in the following table :
Datb.
1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1863, 1868, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1670, 1671, 1872, 1878, 1874, 1876. 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879,
Jan. 1. Jan. 2. Jan. 1. Jan. 6. Jan. 1. Jan. 4. Jan. 8. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 3. Jan. 2. Jan. 8. Jan. 4. Jan. 1 . Jan. 4. Jan. 8. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 4. Jan. 2. Jan. 2. Jan. 8.
Totol
Volumes added.
50
1,000
1,065
1,005
1,024
1,107
1,800
887
610
544
248
520
868
928
5,462
2,888
928
1,970
1,211
2,166
1,853
1,945
2,851
2,820
1,818
2,214
89,171
Documents
and Pamphlets.
1,000
2,000
800
958
5b0
728
1.184
711
2,878
856
226
806
2.811
1.048
683
6,240
1,873
8.789
1,528
1,178
1,186
1,764
2,886
5,090
1,827
41.934
Both together.
50 2,000 8,065 1,805 1.983 1,607 2,528 1,971 1,821 2.917 604 746 1,174 8,784 6,505 8,520 7,168 8.842 5,000 8.694 8.030 8,181 4,615 5,156 6.908 4,041
81.105
Total in Libraiy.
50" 2,050 5,115 6,420 8,403 10,010 12,583 14,504 15,825 18,743 l^(, 346 20,093 21,266 25.000 81 .505^ 85,025 42.188 45.580 50.580 54.224 57,254 60,885 65,000 70,156. 77,064 81.105
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American History and Literature. — American Miscell. State Papers, v. d., 288 vols. ; Congressional and State Documents, V. d., 220 vols.; Congressional Speeches, v. d., 26 vols.; United States Geolog. and Geograph. Explorations, 14 vols. ; Quebec Literary and Histor. Soc. Publications, 1870-7, 8 vols. ; Jesuit Relations, v. d., 6 vols. ; Van Couver s Vojrages, etc., 1801, 6 vols. ; Mazzei's Kecherches et Politique sur les Etats Unis, 1788, 4 vols. ; Mass. Histor. Soc. Collections, etc., 1876-8, 3 vola ; and the following each two vols. ; Goodrich's Amer. Indians, 1843 ; Catlin's North Amer. Indians, 1866 ; Kingston's Wanderings in Canada, 1856; Federal and State Constitutions, 1877; T^sse's Canadians of the West, 1878 ; Dickinson's Political Works, 1801 ; Frost's Remarkable Events in Amer Hist, 1852; Sketches and Poems on La Fayette's Visit, 1824 ; Stephens' Hist of War for the Union, 1866; McCabe's Hist U. S. Centennial Exhibition, 1878 ; and the following one volume each :
Centennial Histories, — Taylor's Centennial Hist United States, 1876; Deven's Our First Century, 1876; Patton's Hist Amer. People, 1876; Hayden's Hand Book ot Amer. Progress, 1876; Nordhoff's Cotton States, 1876; Pennock's Illustrated North West, 1876; Century of Amer. Independence, 1876.
Other Histories, one volume eacfi. — Kedpath's Popular Hist U. S., 1878 ; Bryant's Popular Hist U. S., vol. 2, 1878 ; Ensel's Indiae Occidentalis, 1612; Story's Journal of Travels, 1747; Wentworth's Exped. to Carthagena, 1744; Knox's Claim of Col- onies, 1765 ; Memorials of Great Britain and France on Boundar- ies, 1757 ; Account of Conference in America, 1766 ; Examination of Burgoyne's Expedition, 1779 ; Conduct of Amer. War under British Generals, 1780; Bradman's Narr. of Captivity, etc., 1794; Anderson's Interest of Great Britain Considered, 1782 ; Trial of Col. D. Henley by Court Martial, 1788; British and Amer. Reg- ister, 1775 ; Portlock's Journal of Voyage to N. W. Coast, 1789 ; Chalmers Public Law and Commer. Policy, 1784; McAlpine'a Memoirs, etc., 1778 ; Hist, of North and South America, 1793 ; Barton s Origin of Indian Tribes, 1798 ; Eighty Years' Progress of United States, 1868; Chamberiin's Struggle of 1872; Coffin's Scat of Empire, 1870; Hall's Legends of the West, 1869 ; Smith's
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tTarr. of Death of Andre, 1808 ; Otis' Defense of Hartford Con- vention, 1824; Puglia's Features of Federalism, 1803; Ogden's Tour throui^h Ohio and Kentucky, 1823 ; Fuller s Transformation Scenes in United States, 1875 ; Adams' Field and Forest Scenes in Canada, 1873 ; Martin's Behind the Scenes in Washington, n. d. ; Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men, 1873 ; McCoy on Indian Eeform, 1827; Eaymond's Silver and Gold of United States, 1878; Pictorial Hist of Amer. Revolution, n. d. ; Morgan's Ancient Society and Researches, 1877 ; Gilpin's Mission of North Amer. People, 1873; Homes of Amer. Authors, 1857 ; Brownell's Indian Races, 1873 ; Southesk's Saskatchewan, eta, 1875 ; Frost's Pioneer Mothers of the West, 1869 ; Frost's Hist of United States, 1838 ; Denison's Days and Ways of Cocked Hats, 1860 ; White's Indian Battles of New England, 1859 ; McCuUoh's Researches in America, 1817 ; Clark's Bibliotheca Americana, 1878 ; Morris' Amer. Civil Institutions. 1864; Wright's Patriot and Tory, 1876 ; Finch's Travels in United States and Canada, 1833 ; Coffin's Boyrt of 1876 ; Trial, eta, of Gen. Arnold, 1865 ; Stansbury and Odell's Loyal Verses, 1860 ; Hudson's Second War of Independ- ence, 1863 ; Hodgson's Cradle of the Confederacy, 1876 ; Jour- nal of Prisoner at Dartmouth, Eog., 1816; Smith's Geograph. View of British Possessions, 1814 ; Address to Six Nations, 1805; Cjnstant's Missionary Journey in West, 1857; Laws of North We3t Territory (1799-1802), 1833 ; Hist of Amer. Party, 1855; Webster's Harrison Campaign Speeches, n. d.; Lednum's Hist, of Methodism in United States, 1859; Dunns Brazil, a Home for Southerners, 1868 ; Shaffaer's War in Amerivja, 1862 ; Williams' Eise and Fall of Model Eepublic, 1363 ; Partridge's Oligarchy in the West, 1866; Harris' Polit Conflict in United States, 1876; Mondot's Hist of North American Indians, 1868; Collection of Indian Treaties, 1873 ; Warden's Amer. Researches, 1827; Cone and John's Hist of Petroleum Region, 1871 ; Manu- Bcrit Pictographique Amercaine, 1860 ; Tales of Revolution, 1878; Kane's Wanderings among Indians, 1759; Lewis' Aboriginal Portfolio, 1835 ; Anderson's Discovery of America, 1877 ; Cen- ten. Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender, 1878 ; Flagler's Hist Rock Island Arsenal, 1877; Spencer's Western Pioneer Life„
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1872; Dutch and Swedish Seltleraenta on Delaware, 1877; White'a Early Hist. New England, 1841 ; Beecher'a Land Fall of Columbus, 1856 ; Expedition of Sir Francis Drake, etc, 1855 ; Amer. Year Book. 1869 ; Records of Federal Dead, 1865 ; Mss. of Early Canada Hist, 1866; Goddard on Amer. Eebellion, 1870; Henry's Record of Civilian Appointmenti, 1871; Oriskany Gen- teonial^ 1877 ; Ilarrissea Bibliography of Sew France (loio- 1700), 1872 ; Columbus' Primera Epistola, etc, 1858 ; Spofford's Amer. Almanac, 1878 ; Browne's Four year.^ in United States, 1849; Carrington's Battles of Amer. Revolution, 1877; Drake's Stjry of Bunker Hill, 1875 ; Dodge Plains of Great West, 1877 ; Green's Irrepreaaible C inflict, 1872 ; Dyce'sSix Months in Fed- eral Slates- 1863 ; Hand Book of Democracy, 1853^; Traosae- ttona Moravian llisL Soc., 1876; Starbucks Amer. Whale Fish- eries, 1878 ; Long Island HiaL Soc. Memoirs, 1878 ; Guide from AUanlie to Pacific, 1878 ; Tucksrman'a Criterion, 1866 ; Miller's HisL of Moiloc), 1874 ; Military Hist, of Kiinsas Regiments, 1870: Kleharty's 102d III^. Regt, 186.J; Whitman'-s Maine in the Rebellion, lSt15 ; Bates' Martial Deeds of Pa., 1876 ; Taylor's Four Years with Lee, 1878 ; Cooke's Mohun, or Last Days with Lee, 1869: Keyes' Hist. 12Sd Ohio Reg't,1374; Soulier's B.ittle Field of Gettysburg, 1364; D^nnison'a Ist Rhode Island Cavalry, 1876; Southwood's Beauty and Booty, 1867; Kirkwood's 67lh Indiana Reg't, 1868 ; Mason's 42d Ohio Infy, 1876; Fall of Fort Stttnter, 1867; llortoa and Teverbaugh's IIisi. 11th Ohio Reg't, 1866; Murphy's 1st Delaware Regt, 1866; Walker's Scenes of the Civil War, 1877 ; Scott's 105th Pa. Regt, 1877.
&ale and Local TZi'story. — Vermont Ann. Registers, 1822-76, 24vol&; Pbila. City Directories, 1833-59, 16 vols.; Illustrated Histories of Bureau, DeKilb, Warren, Henry, Jo Daviess, Car- roll, La Salle, Winnebago, Boone, Lake and Whiteside counties, DL, 1876-8, 11 vols. ; Penn. Archives, 1877-8, 3 vols. ; Hisl. of Sl Joseph and Calhoun Cos., Mich., 1877, 2 vols., Maclean s Hist o£ College of N. Jersey, 1877, 2 vols. ; Barllett's Military Record, La., 1674-5, 2 vols. ; Js'. Jersey in Civil War, 1876, 2 vols. ; and the following, each one vol. : Sypher &, Apgar's HisL N. Jersey, 1871; Hodge's Arizona, 1374; Resources Central Mississippi,
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18T6; Cowan's S. Western Pennsylvania, 1878; Morris' Free Ma- sonry in Kentucky, 1859; Pike's Prostrate State (S. Carolina), 1874; Truman's Semi-Tropical Oalifornfa, 1874; Ware's Emi- grant's Guide to California, 1849 ; Hastings' Guide to Oregon and California, 1845 ; Fremont's Geogr. Memoirs of California, n. d. ; Gayarre's Hist Louisiana, 1866 ; Wythe's Natives of Virginia (1585-8), 1841 ; Virginia Richly and Truly Valued (1650), n. d. ; Rumnel's Illinois Hand Book, 1870 ; Waite's Geology and Agr. of Mississippi, 1854; Roy's Coal Mines, etc., of Ohio, 1876 ; An- derson's Silver Country, 1877; Brodhead's Hist New York (1664-91), 1871; Cozzen's Three Years in Arizona, etc., 1876; Brown's Gov't of Ohio, eta, 1875; King's Great South, 1875,- Calendar of Virginia State Papers (1652-1781), 1875 ; Dames' Wis. Guide Book (German), 1849; Sylvester's Hist Sketches, No. New York, 1877; Michigan Pioneer Society Coll., 1877; Dimi- try's School Hist of Louisiana, 1877 ; Dashell's Virginia Pastor's Recollections, 1875; Knapp's Argentine Republic, 1876; Irish^ Hist of Richmond, R L, 1877; Hist Bradford Co., Pa., 1878; Hist Otsego Co., N. Y, 1878; Clayton's Onondago Co., N. Y, 1878 ; Smith's Hist of Pittsfield, Mass., vol. 2, 1876 ; Hist of Seneca and Wayne Cos., N. Y, 1876-7 ; Hist Ashtabula Co., O., 1878; Hist Lawrence Co., Pa., 1877; Douglas' Hist Wayne Co., O., 1878; Orcutt's Hist Wolcott, Ct, 1874; Smith's Hist Duchess Ca, N. Y, 1877 ; Hist Washington Co., O., 1877; Bross' Hist Chicago, 111., 1876; Bagg's Pioneer Hist Utica, N. Y, 1877; Richardson's Hist Woonsocket, R L, 1876 ; Abstracts of Cook Co., 111., Land Titles, 1877; Hist of Kendall Co., 111., 1877; Slaughter's Hist St Mark's Parish, Culpepper Co., Va., 1877; Cunningham's Hist Neenah, Wis., 1878 ; Marvin's Hist Lake George, 1853 ; Hist Hardin Co., O., 1876 ; Langworthy's Hist, Dubuque, Iowa, 1855 ; Knowlton's Annals of Calais, Me., 1875 ; Harden's Hist Madison Co., Ind., 1874 : Burke's Guide to Niagara Palls, 1854; Hist and Geology of Niagara, 1872; Memoir of Schuylkill Fishing Co., 1830 ; Orcutt's Hist Torrington, Ct, 1878 ; Kalamazoo, Mich., Quarter Centennial, 1855; Orono, Me., Town Celebration, 1874; Packard's Hist of La Porte Co., Ind., 1876; Wall's Reminiscences of Worcester, Mass., 1877 ; Taylor's Hist
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Anoepolis, 1872 ; Bowea's Hist PhiljL, 1889 ; Shepard's Early Hist Sl Louis, Ma, 1870 ; Lamb's Hist N. Y. City, 1877 ; Jones' Dublin Bapt Cb., Phila., 1869; Williams Hist St Paul, Minn., 1876 ; Morgan's Hist Dauphin Co., Pa., 1877 ; Livermore's Hist Block Island, R L, 1877 ; Whitehead's Directory of Chester, Pa., 1859; Peck & Earll's Hist of Fall Eiver, Mass., 1877; Crawford's White Mountains, N. H., 1816 ; Hist Montgomery and Fulton Cos., N. Y., 1878 ; Wheeler s Hist of Brunswick, ete.. Me., 1878; Wyandotte Co., O., Directory, 1877 ; Ruttenber's Hist Orange Co., N. Y., 1875 ; Westcott's Historic Mansions of Phila., 1877; Green's Early Settlers of Groton, Masa, 1878; Saudbam's Ville Marie (Montreal), 1870; Wrights' Hist Perry €!a, Pa., 1873; Dunstable, Masa, Bi-Centennial, 1878; Sawteli's. Hist of Townsend, Mas?., 1878; Perkins' Early Times on Susque- bfiona, 1870; Maxwell's Hist of Guthrie Co., Iowa, 1876; areea's Hist of K Greenwich, R L, 1877 ; Martin's Hist Ches- ter, Pa., 1877 ; Etting'a Hist of Old State House^ Phila,, 1876 ; Thompson's Hist of Sonoma Ca^ Cal, 1877; Ferree's Falls. of I^iagara, 1876; Gregg's Hochelaga Depicts (Montreal), 1839; Roger's Private Libraries of Providence, R I., 1878 ; Barnes' N. Y. Metropolitan Police, 1863 ; Berry & Paiton's Men and Mem^ cries of San Francisco, 1873.
American Biography, — Abbott's Series Amer. Biogmphiea and Histories, 15 vola; Memoirs, eta, John Q. Adams, Vols* 4:^12, 1875-7, 9 vok; Edmond's Lite and Times of Washington, 1835, % vols.; Delafield'a Biographies of Francis and Morgan Lewia, 1877, 2 vola; and the following each one volume: Lives of Co- lorabus and Yespocius, 1878 ; Irving's Biographies and Miscel- lanies, 1870; Randolph's Life Gdn. T. J« Jacks3n, 1876; Smuck- er's Lives of Dr. Kane and others, 1871 ; Patton's Lives of N. Y. and Brooklyn Clergy, 1874; Hartley's Lives of Marion, Moultrie, eta, XL d.; Lester's Life of Sumner, 1874 ; Adams' Life of John Adams, 1874 ; Memorial of IL D. Gilpin, 1860 ; Cooke's John Myers and His Times, 1854 ; Campbell's Sketches and Literary Remains, 1838 ; Boyle's Sketches of Mary landers, 1877 ; Seward's Autobiography, 1877 ; Da Ponceau's Eulogy on Tilghman, 1827 ; Hildebraod's Autobiography, 1877 ; Allen's Clergy of Maryland
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P. E. Church, 1860 ; Memorial of Thos. Ewing, 1873 ; Tarbox'a Life of Patnam, 1876; Mather's Life of John Eliot, 1820; Sketches, etc., D. Crockett, 1833 ; Banvard'sLifeof Webster, 1853 ; Knapp'a Life of Timothy Dexter, 1848; Biography of Cresap, 1826; Eg- gleston's Life of Tecumseh; Memories of Shaubena, 1878; Slaughter's Life of Randolph Fairfax, 1878 ; Hill's Life of Boone, 1875; Narr. of Life of D. Crockett, 1834; Hartley's Life of Boone, 1865 ; Whittaker's Life of Custer, 1876 ; Young's Life of Geo. Robertson, 1876 ; Thomas' Sketches of Randolph, Wirt and Kenton, 1853 ; Youth of Jefferson, 1854 ; Lincoln, Stanton and Grant, n. d.
Oeneahgies, — Wentworth Family, 1878, 3 vols.; Roberdeau and Shippen Families, 1876-7, 2 vols.; Thomas' Genealog. Notes, 1878, 2 vols.; and the following in one vol.: Whipple's GeneaL of Whipple Family, 1857 ; Dudley's Genealog. and Archaeolog. Collections, 1861; Welles' Geneal. of Welles Family, 1876; Holton's Winslow Memorial, 1877 ; Jones' Domesday Book ; Wiltshire, Eng., 1865; Ingraham Family, 1871; Ammidown Family, 1877 ; Burwell Family Picnic, etc., 1870 ; Pierson Gen- ealog. Records, 1878; Bergen's Geneal. of Lefferts Family, 1878; Whitmore's Grave Yards of Boston, 1878; O' Hart's Irish Pedi- grees, 1876; Crane's Rawson Geneal., 1876; Gerard's Chapman Geneal., 1876; Allen's Geneal. of Aliens of Ct, 1876; Johnson Geneal., 1876; Worcester, Mass., Burial Ground Inscriptions, 1878 ; Briggs Geneal., 1878 ; Burrage Geneal, 1877 ; Turner's Hist and Geneal. of Greenes of R I., 1877; Mann Geneal., n. d.; Jillson Geneal., 1876 ; Dunster Geneal., 1876 ; Bartow Geneal., 1878 ; Wynkoop Geneal., 1878 ; Moseley Geneal., 1878 ; Kippas' Church Yard Literature, 1877 ; Morse's GeneaL of Sherborn and Holliston, Mass., 1856; Pierce's Genealog. and Histor. Contribu- tions, 1874; Smith Geneal, 1874; Genealog. and Topogr. MSS. in British Museum, 1825; Foster's Lancashire Families, 1873; Yorkshire Visitations, 1875; Heraldry of Smiths of Scotland, 1874 ; Edwards' Family Meeting and Memorial, 1871 ; Hunting- ton's Memories, eta, 1857; Early Settlers of Eliot, Me., 1851; Harrison's Maitland Family, 1869 ; Somerby's Ancestry of John Cotton, 1868 ; The Browns of Nottingham, Pa., n. d.; Elbridge's
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Sermon and Rockwell Family, 1852 ; Archer'a Monumental la- Bcriptions, etc, in West Indies, 1875 ; Finlayson'a Surnnmed, and Sirennmes, n. d,
English and ConUnenlal Ilistonj nnd LUeratvre. — Almnnach da Gotba, 1776-1361, 70 vols.; Edinburgh Cabinet Library, v. d., 87 vols; British Public Characters, 1798-1809, 10 vols.; Camp- bell's Lives British Admirals, 1817, 8 vols.; Birch's Collection of Thurloe State Papers, 1742, 7 vols.; Tracts on Public Records, V. d, 7 vols.; Daniel's ElisL of France, 1732, 5 vols.; Dyer's M:odernEiirope{li53-1871), 1877,5 vols.; Harris' Hist, of CharJea I, Charles 11, and Jamoa I, 1766-72, 5 vola; ihc following each four vola: British Museum M.SS., 1836-53 ; McPheraon's HisL Great Bri la io, 1775; Seward's Anecdotes of Distinguished Per- sons, 1798; HItchins' IlisL and Antinjiities of Dorset, 1861-70; Hazlitt's Remdns of Early Eng. Poetry, 1864; the following, each three vols,; Antiquitatem Teulonicarum, etc, 1728; Dun- lop's Hist of Roman L teraturft 1824; Libberton's Oatlines of History, 1872; Brodie's Con.-ititntional Hist of British Empire, 1866; Shipp's Memoirs of Military Career, 1830 i Correspond enca of Countess of Hartford, 1806 ; Burton's Life, etc, of D. Hume, 1816; Old Book Collectors' Miscellany, 1871; Collier's Eng. Dramatic Poetry, 1831; the following each two vols.: Johnsoa and Steevens' Ed, of Shakspeare, 1793 ; Seward's Biographiana, 1799; Vertot's Hist of Bretons in GanJ, 1722; Hutchinson's Hist, and Antiquities of Ca Cnmberlond, 1791 ; Life of Duka of Monmonlh, 1844 ; Glover's HisL of Co, of Darby, 1829 ; Mac- kenzie's Histor, View of Co. of Derby, 1834 ; Hitchins' and Drews' Hiat of Comwali, 1824 ; Huitfeldt's Chronicles of Denmark (Latin), 1652; Malcomb's Hist of Persia, 1829; Murray's Hist, of European Languages, 1823; Martin's Natives of Tonga Is- lands, 1817; Bruhyn's Life of Unniboldt, 1S73 ; Livingstone's Life and Expeditions to Africa, 1860-74; Motley's Life of John of Barnevald, 1874 ; Letters to and from Countess of Suffolk (1712-67), 1824 ; Bailey's HiHt. Co. of Nottingham, 1858 ; .Tcsae'tf Celebrated Etonians, 1875; Allibone's Prose, and IVtic.il Quo- tations, 1876-78 ; Courtenay's Memo, of Sir. W m. Tempid, 1836 ; and the following each one vol.: British Annual Necrology,
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1797^8; Portraiture of His Most Sacred Majesty, eta, 1548; Nelson's English Libertiea, 1774; Gage's Hist and Antiquities of Suffolk, 1837 ; Eastern Counties Collectanea, 1872-3 ; Hist, and Antiquities of Glamorganshire, 1874; Roberts Social Hist of Cos. of England, 1856; Robinsons Derbyshire Gatherings, 1876; Culloden Papers (1625-1748), 1815 ; Dunlop's Hist of Fiction, 1845 ; Zouch's Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney, 1809 ; Histor. Il- lustrations of the Passions, 1825; Hazlitt's Literary Remains, 1836 ; Lyson's Hist Bedfordshire, 1806 ; Tucker's Records, etc., of Sir Isaac Brock, 1835 ; Jones' Hist and Antiquities of Hare- wood, Yorkshire Co., 1859 ; Marshall's Annals of Yorkshire, 1861 ; Warren's Story of Three Judges, 1873 ; Campbell's Shakspeare's Legal Acquirements, 1869 ; Shakspeare Not an Impostor, 1857 ; Walker's Shakspeare's Yerification, 1854 ; Senoir's Essays, 1865 ; CoUett's Relics of Literature, 1823^ More's Life of Sir Thomas More, 1828; Worrai's Fasti Danici Universam, etc., 1643; Slei- danus' Commentaries, 1555 ; Porter's Campaign in Russia, 1815 ; Murphey's Mahometan Empire in Spain, 1816; Stanley's How I Found Livingstone, 1872 ; Felton's Ancient and Modern Greece, 1869 ; Sale's Translation of Koran, 1876 ; Hawes' Synchronology, 1875; Gayarre's Philip 2d of Spain, 1866; Boothby's So. Aus- tralia, 1876; EngUsh and, French Ancient Hist etc., 1831; Norwegian Invasion of Scotland (in 1263), 1862 ; Hotton's Hand Book to Eng. Topography, n, d. ; Stuart Papers, 1847 ; Domes- day Book of Essex, 1864; Smith's Hist of Warwick, 1837; Mackintosh's Miscell. Works, 1871 ; Catalogue of Herald's Yisi- tations, 1825 ; Cunningham's Works of Burns, 1876 ; Works of Byron, 1878.
Works on Science — Antiqrdtes^ etc. — London Society of Anti- quaries, Publications, 1779-1873,45 vols; International Scientific Series, 1874-5, 16 vols. ; London Ethnological Society Journal, 1848-70, 13 vols; Minnesota Acad, of Science Reports, etc., 1874-78, 9 vols. ; Jackson's Antiquity, etc., of Ancient King- doms, 1752, 3 vols. ; Madden's Shrines and Sepulchres, 1851, 2 vols. ; Michaux Flora Boreali Americana, 1803, 2 vols. ; Muel- ler's Hist etc., of Doric Race, 1880, 2 vols. ; and the following, eaohonevoL: Ohio Geolog. Survey, voL 2, 1874; Annual of
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Scientific Discovery, 1869; BartoD on the Rattlesnake, 1796; Giraud's Birds of Long Island, 184i; Winchell's Sketches of Creation, 1870 ; Janet on Materialism of the Day, 1866 ; Journal of Franklin Institute, 1851 ; Prichard's Ethnography of the Celtic Race, n. d. ; Newton's Principia (in English), 1846; Kan- sas Acad, of Science Transactions, 1877 ; Amer. Assoc, for Adv. of Science, Proceedings, 1876 ; Amer. Philosoph. Soa Proceed- ings, 1878; Fergusson's Rude Stone Monuments, 1872; Combe's Terra Cottas in British Museum, 1810; Salt on Phonetic System of Champollion, 1825 ; Young s Ace. of Hieroglyphic Litera- ture, 1823 ; Smith's Assyrian Discoveries and Explorations, 1875 ; Smith's Chaldean Ace. of Genesis, 1876 ; Keller's Like Dwell- ings in Switzerland, 1866 ; Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, 1874 ; Westwood's Palaeographia Sacra, 1845 ; Sammes' Britan- nia Antiqua Illustrata, 1676; Catalogue of Royal Irish Academy, etc., 1863 ; Smucker on Pre-Historic Races of Ohio, 1877 ; Jones' Dead Towns of Georgia, 1878; Jones' Tennessee Aboriginal Remains, 1876.
Cyclopedias and Dictionaries. — Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, 1832-1842, 133 vols.; Encyclopedia Britannica, vols. 1-8, 1878 8 voI&; Newman & Barretti's Spanish Dictionary, 1876, 2 vols.; Chambers' Cyclopedia Eng. Literature, 1876, 2 vols. ; Sewall & Buy's Eng. and Dutch Dictionary, 1766, 2 vols. ; Richardson's Dictionary of Eng. Lioguage, 1833, 2 vols. ; Barretti's Eng. & Italian Dictionary, 1831, 2 vols. ; and the following, each one vol.: Cruden's Concordance, 1878 ; Smith & Hamilton's International Eng. & French Dictionary, 1875 ; Halloway's Dictionary of Pro- vincialisms, 1838; Jamieson's Hist of Scottish Language, 1867; Penrice's Dictionary and Glossary of Koran, 1873 ; U. S, Biograph. Dictionary, Pa., 1876.
Maps and Atlases. — Cram's Map of Wisconsin, 1839 ; Blanch- ard's Map of United States, 1875 ; Richardson's Map of Texas, 1867 ; Abraham's Map of Iowa, 1851 ; Disturnell's Map of Mex- ico^ 1848 ; Col ton's Middle and Western States, n. d.; Brown's Map of Marion Co., Ohio, 1852 ; Battle Field of Gettysburg, n. d.; Map of Illinois, 1827; Rossler's Map of Texas, 1878; Mendal's
Map of Chicago, 1857 ; Lipman's Map of Milwaukee, n. d.; Mill- 6— St. Hi8. Soc.
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tary Maps of Civil War, v. d.; Historical Atlases of the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, 1868-78, 5- Tols.; Walling's Atlas of Ohio, 1868.
Miscellaneous. — Thomson's Translation of the Scriptures, 1808, 4 vols.; Sufferings of Quakers, 1753, 2 vols.; Anderson^s Norse Mythology and Vikiag Tales, 1876-7, 2 vols.; Wright on Sorcery and Magic, 1852 ; Easton's Human Longevity, 1799 ; and the fol- lowing, each one vol.: Matthews' Coinages of the World, 1876; Howe's Life and Death on the Ocean, 1870 ; Higgins' Anacalypsis, 1878; Hone's Ancient Mysteries, 1823 ; Poor's Money and its Laws, 1877 ; Brerewoods' Diversity of Languages, etc., 1674 ; Sumner on Amer. Currency, 1874 ; Walker on Money, 1878 ; Parsons on Origin of Languages, 1767 ; De Bustis' Rosary of Ser- mons, 1503.
Periodical Literature. — Journal of Classical and Sacred Philo- logy, 1854-6, 3 vols. ; Greenbank's Periodical Library, n. d,, 2 vols. ; Amer. Ann. Register, 1796, 1 vol. ; N. Y. Weekly Museum, 1815-16, 2 vols. ; American Museum, 1798, 1 vol. ; London Mercury, 1780, 1 vol. ; Western Jour, of Agr. and Mechanic Arts, 1848-55, 14 vols. ; Trans, of Histor. and Literary Comm. of Amer. Philosoph. Soa 1843, 1 vol. ; Phila. Magazine, 1789, 1 vol. ; Fireland's Pioneer, 1874-6, 2 vols. ; Canadian Jour, of Industry, 1852-5, 2 vols. ; Saturday Review of Polities, etc.^ 1854-76, 38 vols. ; Graham's Magazine, 1841-2, 1848-50, 4 vols. ; Knickerbocker's Magazine, 1834, 2 vols. ; Christian Jour, and Literary Register, 1823, 1 voL ; Ladies' Repository, 1867-69, 4 vols. ; Christian Review, 1836-56, 21 vols. ; Roberts' Semi- Monthly Magazine, 1841-2, 1 vol. ; Gentleman's Magazine (Phil.), 1839-40, 2 vols. ; N. Y. Maejazine, 1793, 1 vol. ; The Casket, 1838, 1 vol. , Hazard's Commer. and Statist. Register, 1839-42,. 6 vols. ; N. Am. Review Index, 1815-77, 1 vol. ; Southern Lit- erary Messenger, 1835, '36, *52, 2 vols. ; Potter s Amer. Monthly ,^ 1877, 2 vols. ; Magazine of Amer. History, 1877, 1 vol. ; Pa. Magazine of History, 1877, 1 vol. ; Library Journal, 1876-8, 2 vols. ; Littell's Living Age, 1877-8, 8 vols. ; N. Amer. Review,. 1817, 18, 76-8, 6 vols. ; N. Eug. Hist and Genealog. Reg. 1877-8, 2 vols.
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Bound Xewspaper Files. — The following additions indicfite their number and the period of their publication:
Ttar*. Volt.
London Observalor 1S34 .... 8
Pennsylvanlft Qazetle 1750 1
Boslon Herolil of Freedom 17U0 ... 1
New London (Coqd.) GitzeUe 1704-80 1
Albany Da-W AdTerliaer 1814-10 8
WbeeliDg, Vs.. N. Wesiern Gazette 1818-30 . , . . I
New Enitland Galaiy 18B1-28 .... 8
Boston Weekly Messenger 1884-88 1
Hampshire, Mats., Gazette lt<35-20 ,,., 1
Sew York Mirror 1888 .... 1
Qeorxetonn, D. C, Gazette 1829-1833 i
Galena. Ill, N. Western GajetM 1837-18*8 S
Albany Tocsin of Liberty, etc 1848-13 1
Chambers' Edlaburph Journal 1S44-1854 83
Albany Mechanics' Journal 1840-47 .... I
Sew York Weekly Herald 1B48-49 .... 1
New Yoik Seuii-freekly Post 1849-1857 .... 18
New York Weekly Tribune 1850-18.18 .... 8
Albany Evening "transcript 1BS3-18.'SS 2
Congreaslonal Record 1874-1877 9
CblCBBO Daily Tllnea 1B77-78 .... i
Chicseo Daily Tribune 1877-78 .... 4
New York Dally World 1877-78 .... S
New York Daily Tribune 1877-78 .... 4
IflacooaiD daily and weekly papers 1845-1878 .... li
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These additions make the total number of bound newspaper files of the seventeenth century, 64 volumes; of the eighteenth, 306; of the present century, 2,552; grand total, 3,012.
Unbounil Xcivapaper Files and Serials. — Wisconsin Journal o£ Education, 18T6, 1877, from Hon. W. C. Whitford; Gentleman's Magazine, 1836, 18-11-47, purchased; Journal of Social Science Tnos.; Jour, of Speculative Philosophy, 31 nos., purchased; The Bepabtic, 18 noa.; Amer. Naturalist, 1867-75, purchased ; Bostoa Index, 1877. from E. Burdick; Western Spy, 1814-1822, par- flbaaed, and a collection of 717 nos. Amer. periodicals, purchased to complete seta
There are now received by the Society 223 periodioala — 14 more than last year; of which, 4 are quarterlies, 18 monthlies, 1 bi-monthly, 2 semi-monthly, 193 weeklies, 1 BemJ-weekly and 9 dulies, of which IdS are Wisconsin publications.
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LIBRARY ADDITIONS — SUMMARY.
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American Patents 12
British Patents 110
American History and Travel 79
American Local History 120
American Revolutionary War History 27
American Indians 24
State Histories and Documents 198
United States Documents and Surveys 518
Slavery and Civil War 54
Canada 16
Magazines and Reviews 183
Historical and Learned Societies 61
Biography 114
Genealogy 46
European History and Literature 188
Antiquities and Archseolo^y 15
Cyclopedias and Dictionaries 155
Ijfinguage and Literature 48
Bibliogiaphy 8
Political Economy, etc 7
Politics and Qovernment 25
Religious History, etc 21
Education 5
-Science 89
'Secret Societies 5
Directories 17
Poetry and Fiction 12
Almanacs and Registers 74
Voyages and Travels 7
Bound Newspaper files 108
Atlases 6
Miscellaneous 7
Total book additions 2,214
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Bailey, W.T 1
Baltimore, Md., Park Commissioners
Barton, E. M
Bartow, Rev.E 1
Bascom, President J
Battle, K.P
Beloit College
Benet, S.V 1
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Bradford. Hod. G. W 2
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Bradley, I. 8 1
Briggs, Col. 8 I
Brock, R.A 1
Bross, Hon. Wm 1
Buchanan, R 2
Buck, J. 8 7
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Burrows, Hon. Qeorge B. 2
Butterfield, C. W 1
Cameron, Hon. A 4
Carr, Hon. E 8 1
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Cayuga County, N. Y., Hist Soc
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Chamberlin, Prof. T. C
Cheney, T. A
Cheever, Hon. D. G
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Chicago Historical Society 81
Chicago University
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Crowell, Dr. J
Cunningham, G. A 1
Curtis, D. W
Daley,C. P
Davis, J. C. B
Dawes, E. C
Delaware Historical. Society
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Jones, C. C, Jr 1
Jones, H. G
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Kansas State Board Agriculture 1
Kennedy, D
Kenosha Co., Wis., Historical Society 1
Kidder. Fred
Lang, R.W 2
Long Island Historical Society ^. 1
Luce, S. S / 1
Ludiogton, Gov. H 1
Mann, Rev. J 1
Harcv, Oliver
Haryland Historical Society 2
Hassachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Historical ScKsiety 3
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts Secretary of State 7
Matson, N 1
Medburv, Rev. A. R
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Miner, Rev H. A
Minnesota Academy Nat. Science • 2
Minnesota Historical Society 1
Missouri State University 1
Moravian Historical Society 1
Moseley, B. S 1
Mott,H 1
Munsell, J
New England Historic-Gecealog. Society 8
New York State Library
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Northrop, G. V. N
Nova Scotia Historical Society
Oregon Pioneer and Hifttorical Society
Parker, B. F
Peabody Institute, Baltimore • •
Pennypacker, S. W
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Slaughter, Rev. P 2
Slocum, G. B 1
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Tuttle, Dr. J. F 1
United States Coast Survey 1
United StRtes Commissioner of Education 1
United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs 6
United States Commissioner of Patents 18
United States Naval Observatory 1
United States Secretary of Interior 62
United States Secretary of SUte 2
United states Secretary of Treasury 1
Vermont Historical Society 1
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Williams, Hon. James
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ART GALLERY.
There has been added to the Art Gallery, during the year, a fine cabinet sized photograph of Hon. Henry D. Barron, neatly framed, from Judge Barron ; a crayon portrait of Isaac Lyon, with rosewood and gilt frame, from the artist, Miss W. Fillans ; also, from the same, a crayon portrait of Hon. Chas. Sumner, neatly framed, and a plaster medallion of Hon. John W. Hoyt, Governor of Wyoming Terr. ; an oil portrait of the Winnebago chief Yel- low Thunder, painted and deposited by the artist, S. D. Coates, of Merrimac, Wis. ; a fine, life size, plaster ^ust of Solomon Juneau^ executed by K P. Knowles.
contributions for exchanges.
Twenty copies of Gov. Smith's Message, Jan. 10, 1878, from Gov. Smith ; 10 Vols. 2 Wis. Geol. Report, from State ; 25 North- ern Wis. Agric. and Mechan. Association, 1876-7, from State ; 10 Reports State Bd. of Charities, 1872 ; 6 Synoptical Index; 25 Gov. Ludington's Message, 1877; 20 Ann. Repts. of Sea of State, 1871- 1873; 10 Ryan's Opinion on R. R Injunctions; 50 Nat Insur- ance Convention, 1874, from Hon. Peter Doyle; 12 Ann. Report Wis. Geolog. Survey, 1877, from Prof. T. C. Chamberlin ; 25 Re- ports of Stale Bd. of Charities, 1877, from Sec. of Board ; 15 Eepts. Madison Board of Education, 1877, from Prof. S. Shaw, 'Uid'SO Reports of previous years ; 94 vols, of Wis. State Docu- lentB V. d , from Hesperian Society, by exchange of duplicate X)k8; 12 Ann. Rept of Supt of Public Instruction, 1877, from don; W. C. Whitford; 12 Wis. Editorial Association, 19th Ses- fiion, 1877, from Gen. D. Atwood ; 10 same, 20th Session, from Hon. R D. Coe ; 24 Ann. Rept of State Bd. of Health, 1877, from Dr. J. T. Reeve, Sec; 10 Milw. Trade and Commerce, 1877, from Ohamber of Commerce ; 18 Wis. Hoit Soc. Rept 1869, and d
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'Madison Pamphlets, from Dr. Jos. Hobbins ; 25 Legislative Man- uals, 1878, from State ; 50 each Laws of Wis., 1878, Senate and Assembly Journals, and Messages and Documents; 100 Wia Agr. Society Transactions, 1877-8 ; 40 Wis. Dairymen's Asso- ciation Reports, 1877-8; 25 No. Agr. and Mechan. Assoc., 1877-8, from State ; 6 Wis. State Treas'rs Kept 1877, from State Treasr. ; 6 Wis. State Teachers* Assoc., 1853-78, from Prof. A. Salisbury ; 25 State Ilorticult Soc. Kept 1878, from State ; 45 Cat of Univer. of Wisconsin, 1878-9, from Pres. Bascom ; 6 Wis. Dairymen's Asso. Eepts. v. d., from D. W. Curtiss, Sec.
ADDITIONS TO THE CABINET.
Pre- Historic Implements, — A copper spear, with socket about 6J inches long, from L. McGovern, Elkhart Lake, Sheboygan Co., Wis. ; also a copper rounded spear, point about two inches long, from the same ; a copper spear head, with socket six inches long, found on Section 32, Town 24, Bange 15 east, Outagamie Co., Wis.; a copper axe, found on Section 17, Town 22, Bange 15 east, Outagamie Co., about six inches long, and two and half wide, and a collection of broken earthen pottery, from C. W. Malley, New London, Wis. ; a piece of float copper, weighing 4 pounds 10 ounces, flattened in shape of an axe, found on prem- ises of Orson Tichenor near city of Waukesha, from Mr. Tiche- nor; a barbed spear, ten inches long, found in town of Merton, Waukesha Co., Wis., 1877, from lion. John A. Rice ; copper knife, with handle, five inches long, found at Spirit river, near Wausau, Wis., 16 feet below surface, from G. C. Young, Wausau.
Other Antiquities, — Broken stone pipe and stone chisel five inches long, found in Dane county, Wis., from Mra Wm. Reeves; stone axe, grooved, found on an island in LakeMendota, near State Hospital for Insane, from Dr. J. N. De Ilart ; stone hammer, seven and a half pounds, from Rockland Mine, Lake Superior, in Ontonagon Co., Michigan, from Dr. John A. Rice ; stone axe found on premises of Frank Grault, Dane Co., from John Dohr ; petrified wood, from Placer Co., California; human skull, from No. Platte river, Nebraska, found in a tree forty feet from the ground, from D. R Phelps; collection of seventy-five stone arrow heads, found in the
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town of Richmond, TValworth Co., Wis., and a stone axe foand at same place, from W. L. R Stewart, Whitewater, Wis. ; twelve small fossil pipes and flint arrow head, from a mound in Bath Ca, Kentacky, from Hon. V. B. Young.
Autographs, — An autograph document signed by Andrew Jack* son and Hugh L. White, from Dr. J. G. M. Ramsay, 1804 ; three autograph letters of Chevalier Johnstone to Gen. Murray, of Canada, 1759 and 1763 ; signature of Hon. W. T. Barry, 1816, from Hon. V. B. Young; writ of attachment on property of Thos. Marshall, of Va., 1757; from Otis Guernsey; also, purchased, autograph letters of the following signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States : R Stock- ton, Geo. Taylor, David Brearley, Pierce Butler, Jona. Dayton, J. Dickinson, "Vf . Few, T. Fitz Simmons, J. Ingersoll, W. Livingston, J. Langdon, W. Paterson, Hugh Williamson, F. Hopkinson and James Madison. *"
Coins^ Medals and Currency. — Russian copper coin, 1840, from W. Rosman ; 25 cent bill State Bank of North Carolina, 1864, from M. J. Paine ; copper penny, Bank of Upper Canada, 1850, f rom W. H. Loomis; a certificate of one share of $100, in Amen Colonization and Steam Ship Co. of Yucatan, 1859, and a com- mission of W. H. Toler, of Arkansas, as Major of American Legion of Knights of the Golden Ciicle, 1859, from John Cover ; small silver piece of reign Leopold 3d of Hungary, 1670, from C. Hoeflinger; ten dollar Mineral Point bill, 1839, from C. Wood- man ; 10 cent silver piece, Republic of Peru, 1866, from E. Qua- mer ; five dollar bill. Bank of Morgan, Georgia, 1857, from C. 0 Morgan; 48 American and English pennies, various dates — a Continental bill, one third of a dollar, 1776 — a Confederate bill, 1861 — counterfeit 10, 25 and 50 cents, U. S. fractional currency, from W. L R Stewart, Whitewater, Wis.; $10 Confederate bill, 1861, from Dr. B. O. Reynolds.
Natural Science Specimem, — Specimens of fibre from which pa- per for manufacture of greenbacks, drafts and checks, is made by a secret process ; portions of stalactites found in a cave in Water- ville, Pepin Co., Wis., from Miletus Knight ; specimen of ozo- cerite (mineral wax) from Utah, from Frank Olmsted : bill of a
sturgeon found in Miaaiasippi river, from D. S. McArthur; a largo seotioQ of Bandatone with a corrugated surface, showing wave lines, found in a quarry near Wisconsin river, at Stevens Point, Irom Stevens Point Library Association ; six specimens of geo- logickl formations found in Dane Co., Wis., from Mrs. Wm. Beeves ; a piece of float copper, 18 ounces, found in Chippewa Co., Wis, by Mr, Jones in 1877, from Mrs, Kob'tMariner; section of a sappling, one and a half inches in diameter, from center of ft large tree, which bad grown around and distinct from the iormer, from Mrs. Shater, Beaver Dam, Wis.
Mincellaneoiis. — Winter moccasins made of seal skin, from Karilee Island, near Japan, from W. A. Spaulding; antique pair of brass dividers or compasses, found in an old building in Corn- wall, Eng-, from liev. J. Kalph ; haiqua and Indian needles, from Tan Coaver's Island; three photoRrapha of Indians from same locality- — provision bag made of bUiIder, and fish hooks from Alaska, from Prof. R W. Laing, of University of Minnesota; photographic group of infant childrsn exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, 187fi, from Heury Ash; cavalry sword brought from "Va. by LieuL CdI. Catlio, 5th Wis. Vol., evidently of ancient time, presented by Col. Catlin ; section of apple tree under which Generals Grant and Lee made a treaty, April 9, 1865; fragment of flog staff at Fort Darling, Va. ; Rebel minnie ball, with sup- posed poisoned wood attachment; fragment of Washingtons piano CO taken at Arlington, Va, Dec. 14, 1861 ; friction primer fopartillery from Va., from Otis Guernsey ; group of members of TVia State Senate, 1878, and of the employees, neatly framed and 'glazed, from lion. D. H. Pulcifer; group of the reporters of both Houses of the Legislature, 1878, with similar frame, from Miletua
.bight: and a small photograph of the old State Capitol at JIadison, from Gen. Simeon Milla
The venerable Isaac Lyon has devoted another year to the care of the Cabinet without reward — save the consciousness of doing good, anil making others happy.
NEW CATALOGUE.
TkuLibrary. — The ith volume of Library Catalogue of 750 pegth, recently issued, exhibits the accretions of the ^stsbtluea
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years, and is its own best commentary on the growth of the col- lection. The four Catalogue volumes, embracing nearly 2,600 pages, with their direct and cross-references' to titles, subjects and authors, render it an easy matter for the student or investigator to ascertain the strength of the Library on any given topic ; and the books being grouped by subjects, are readily found when wanted.
The Library is in as good condition, save in ventilation, as could be expected, when its overcrowded state is considered. In the hopeful " good time coming," a collection so rich in nearly every department of American literature, and in general European history, will surely be provided with ample room for the preser- vation and safety of these precious gatherings.
manuscript collections.
The additions to our store of materials for publication have been but few, yet valuable of their kind :
A sketch of the early adventurous missionary and explorer of the West, Jean Nicolet, by Benjamin Suite, Ottawa, Canada.
Several original papers, presented by Lyman C. Draper, touch- ing the Pontiac outbreak of 1763, and briefly relating to Fort Ed- ward Augustus at Green Bay — some written by Edmond Moran, then engaged in merchandizing at Green Bay, representing Capt. Evan Shelby & Co., of Frederick County, Maryland, and showing their losses of goods, by the Indians capturing the fort there, at £1440, which seems subsequently to have been reimbursed'by the British Government.
Tradition of the Sac or Sauk Indians, by George Johnston, written in 18i5.
The Pottawattomie Council at Chicago, in May, 1832, by Dn Enoch Chase.
Incidents of the Black Hawk War, by Peter Parkinson, Jr.
Settlement and History of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus, Green County, by Hon. John Luchsinger.
In concluding our report, we must not omit to record the great loss we have sustained in the recent death of Prof. Stephen H, Carpenter, LLD., who had, for nearly twenty-five years, an official
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connection with the Society, and always rendering it cheerful ser- vica Thus is added another to the long list of able and sympa- thizing friends of the Society who have passed on to the better world — Wm. R Smith and I. A. Lapham, two of our honored Presidents ; Charles Durkee, Henry Dodge, James D. Doty. Henry S. Baird, Ebenezer Childs, Daniel M. Parkinson, Ebenezer Brig- ham, Charles Bracken. George Gale, George Hyer, John Y. Smith, John Catlin, Stephen Taylor, and many others. When the last summons shall call us hence, may it be truly said of each, that in the line of his duties and opportunities, '*he did what he could.''
IN MEMORIAM.
Prof. STEPHEN HASKINS CARPENTER, LL. D.
state Hiatorical Society, Dec, 17, 1878.
Gen. Simeon Mills, in the chair, announced the sudden death of Dr. Carpenter, for many years a prominent member and officer of the Society. The Secretary, Lyman C. Draper, Prof. J. B. Parkinson, and Hon. H. H. Giles, were appointed a committee to draft suitable resolutions expressive of the regard of the Society for their late associate, who reported the followin^j; resolutions :
" Resolved^ That the Executive Committee of the State Histor- ical Society of Wisconsin, enter upon its records this testimonial to the unswerving fidelity to principle, to duty, and to friendships^ of the late Prof. S. H. Carpenter, LL. D., a man whom we long since learned to recognize as a scholar of large and varied culture, devoted to the cause of education and to the elevation of our race ; ever a Christian gentleman, kind and courteous in his intercourse with his fellow men ; charitable in thought, and liberal in all that pertains to benevolence and humanity.
" Resolved^ That this Society, of which Prof. Carpenter has been an active officer for nearly a quarter of a century, and to which he has freely contributed his gifts and his services, deeply deplores the loss it has sustained in his death, and tenders its profound sympathies to his bereaved companion and relatives."
Several members of the Society, who were intimately connected in life with the lamented Professor, either professionally or soci« ally, sustained the resolutions of respect with remarks on his his character and life-work.
Prot R B. Anderson, of the State University, submitted the following memoir :
Stephen Haskins Carpenter, was a son of Calvin G. Carpenter, a Baptiiit clergyman, and was bom on the 7th of August, 1831^
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atLiltle Falls, Herkimer county, New York. Ris early educa- tioD wa^ given him at iiome ' He prepared tor college at Munro Academy, Elbridge, N. Y., then under the charge of Professor John Wilson. In 184S, he entered the Freshman class of Madi- BOn University, at Ilamilton, and remained there two years, when lie entered t!ie University of Rochester. He was gradaated at this uoivefiity, receivitrg the def^ree o£ Bachelor of Arts, in 1852, ol Maner of Art? in 1355, and the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1872 from his almn muter.
He early showed a predeliction for languages. Having been taoght Latin at home in hia early childhood, that language was quite easily mastered; and at college he acquireil a taste for Greek which led him to read the classic authors extensively. I frsquently heird him tel! that he had read the Iliad twelve times through, and the Odyssey s\k times. In 18.^2, failing of a tator- aliip at Rochester University for which he had applied, he accepted the appointment of tutor in the University of Wisconsin, which position he held tor two years. He came to this institution at the request of Chancellor Lathrop, and was recommended for the po- sKion by President M. B. Anderson, of the University of Roches- ter, He resigned his position as tutor to open a furniture and music store in Madison, as promising better pecuniary results ; but "biB partner soon dying, he closed up the business in a few months.
From 185-i to 185"i, he was engaged rather unproStably and ■uncongenially in newsp.aper work. On Nov, 20, 1854, he became the publisher, and one of the editors, of the Wisconsin Patriot, retiring July 28, 185fi. In Jan., 1857, he began editing his Wrsl- «m Fireside, a model family and literary paper; but he continued it only tor one year. While he was engaged in his editorial pur- sails, he also filled for a brief period the office of clerk for the city of Madison — the incambent, W. N. Seymour, having been disabled by paralysis, Mr. Carpenter was chosen to fill the vacancy from Oct 7, 1857, to March 3, 1858, when he resigned. From 1853 to 1860 he was Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion for the State of Wisconsin, having been appointed to that po- eitioD by Lyman C. Draper. With Mr. Draper, he established order in that office, and inaugurated much of the system which is ■till in use there.
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Id 1860, he was elected Professor of Ancient Languages in St- Paul's College, at Palmyra, Missouri, which position he held until the war broke up the institution. Returning to Wisconsin, he taught a select school one winter in Richland county, and then came back to Madison to remain permanently. Failing again of literary employment, he maintained himself by working at the printer's trade, while employing his spare time in literary work. On June 11, 1864, he was elected clerk of the city of Madison, which position he continued to hold until October 10, 1868, when he was elected Professor in the University of Wisconsin. But he also engaged in various literary enterpriseswhile he held the po- sition of clerk, acting as member of the City Board of Education, and serving a term of two years as Superintendent of Schools for the Western District of Dane County. During this period he was also often called by the late Professor Read to fill his chair in his absence; and he was frequently consulted by University students who came to him for advice in reference to their debates, compositions, and commencement exercises.
In 1866, the Exe3utive Committee of the University appointed Professor Carpenter to fill temporarily the chair of Professor Read, who had been called to the Presidency of the University of Mis- souri ; and in 1868, he was regularly elected Professor of Rheto- ric and English Literature, and his connection with the University continued from that time without interruption until his death, although the title of his Professorship was changed in 1870 to Logic, Rhetoric and English Literature, and in 1875 to Logic and English Literature. In 1875, he was elected to the Presidency of the University of Kansas, but declined, believing that he could accomplish more good by remaining hera
From the year he graduated until his death. Prof. Carpenter was a close and indefatigable student, and a diligent writer. He has made numerous and valuable contributions to the religious and educational periodical press of our country. Ten of his educa- tional addresses have been published, the last of which is a very interesting, eloquent and scholarly lecture on " Moral Forces in Uducation." This was thought by many his happiest effort, and it attracted the attention of many of our foremost educators. Pres-
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ident M. B. Anderson, of Rochester Universitj, aaya of it: "It 13 sound, timely, and worthy the attention of every teacher. I shall put it in our library lo be bound up for reference.
Ilia " Lectures on tJm JjJvidences of Christianifij " — twelve in num- ber— originally delivered in the University, were published a few years ago in Madison, and were well received. The Penn MonlJilij in Philadelphia, and other publication?, have contained in all, eight ariiclea translated by Dr. Carpenter from the French, con- spicuous among which are Emile de Laveleye's articles on Politi- cal Economy and the Future of Oatholic ^Nations, and stories of George Sand from Revw de-i Daitx Hondas.
Professor Carpenter was also a successful student of metaphysics, and published in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, papers on the " ifclaphysical Basis of iSt'/V/icr," and on the " Philosophy of Solution," glviag a logical basis to this theory. These papers have attracted considerable attention iimong scholars, and were favorably noticed in the Prinalon Beview, and elsewhere. Professor Carpenter took a prominent part in the organization of the Academy, and was from its foundation until liia death, one of its chief officers.
His talents were very varied, and not alone confined to litera- ture. He had a fine taste for music, played the organ well, and also wrote original music. In 1867, he issued a little book of " Songs for (lie S'xhhath jSc/<cw/," the music of which was all com- poeed by himself, with a single exception, and the words to sev- eral of the hymns were also written by liira.
But what has most contributed to Dr. Carpenter's national fame, IB bis excellent work in the field of Anglo-Saxon and Early En- glish, of which language, to quote Uis own words, he '■' was aa enthusiastic admirer."
He was.in the broadest sense, aTeutonist, and believed that the English should sit in the high seat in our American schools, con- tending that English, Anglo Saxon and sister tongues of Odinio lineage, when properly taught, are as suitable tor disciplining the mind and aa worthy of critical study as are the South Europeaa languogea Indeed, as an old English and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Dr. Carpenter had but few peers in this country, and he had al- " Br. HiB. Boc.
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ready taken rank with such men as Prof. T. A. March, . of Lafay- ette College ; Prof. Corson, of Cornell ; Proi Lounsberry, of Yale, and Prof. Child, of Harvard.
The first fruit of his study in this direction was his " English in the XIV Century " (pp. XIV, 313), published in Boston in 1872, which contains a critical examination of the English of Chaucer, and is illustrated by copious, grammatical and entomo- logical notea This work was well received by the press anl by scholars in various parts of the country ; and it was introduced as a text-book in several Colleges and Universities.
Professor William Swinton, the well-known author of historical text-books, and at that time Professor in the University of Cali- fornia, said of it : '* I have tested the book in the class-room. Your work is admirably done — a model of neatness and con- densation."
Professor John S. Hart, of the College of New Jersey, gave the volume the following recommendation: "The work was one much needed for schools, and has been executed in a careful and scholarly manner. It is a most valuable addition to our apparatus for instruction in the English language and literature ;" and Pro- fessor John S. Sewell, of Bowdoin College, said of it ; "I can truly say that it comes nearer to my idea of a help in studying our language at that early period than any text-book I have seen." Many more similar indorsements might be quoted, but these will suffice to show the unanimity with which scholars of our most prominent educational institutions spoke in praise of the work.
In 1875 Professor Carpenter published " An Introduction to the Study of Anglo-Saxon,'' a work that has already leached a third edition, a fact which alone is a great compliment to the author.
This work of 213 pages contains all the essentials of Anglo- Saxon grammar, selections for reading, carefully written notes, and a full vocabulary, giving root forms of the words found in the book. This work was also very highly commended by the press. The New York Tribune spoke of it in very high terms of praise, and it was received with marked favor in England. The School Board Chronicle in London, England, says of it: '^ Ameri-
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can edacalionalists are generally very elear-headad and practical, and their school and instraction books are worthy of our attention. This is one of ihem, and the popular form in which the study ia presented indicates that our American cousins perform a good deal of intellectual work, apart from the common subjects of every day necessity and utility." These words, coming, as they do, from the old world, where the reviewer is not influenced by per- sonal friendship or national pride, carry great weight.
Last year Dr. Carpenter published his "Elements of English Analysis, illustrated by a New System of Diagrams." This little work of only forty pagea hai already found its way into many of the schools of this and adjoining states, and has recently appeared in a second edition.
He frequenily prepared the University catalogues, and in 1876 he wrote the "History of the University of Wisconsin" for the Centennial celebration. He frequently lectured in various parts of the slate, and often filled the pulpit in various Madison cliBrchea. His Centennial address delivered in Madison was an able production, and found a place in a volume of Centennial addresses published in New York in 1877.
His last work has not been published, but was about rendy for the press at the time of his death, and it is to be hoped t!iat the public may soon get this last fruit of his literary industry. It is a translation of the famous Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, care- fally annotated, and furnished with an elaborate introduction. He had the finest Anglo-Saxon and early English library in the Northwest; and his Bwivulf, as well as his other works, bear the evidence of wide and pains-taking research.
My own and Prof. Carpenter's studies were closely related ; and BO we were in the habit of reading to each other much of what we wrote before giving it to the public ; and the last composition he read to me was the introduction of his Beowulf. I was struck with the warm glow of enthusiasm pervading every page of it, and with the extensive and varied learning which he brought to bear on his topic. Should it not be published, thecause of Anglo- Saxon literature in this country will, in my opinion, suffer a aeri- ooa loss.
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Of the State Historical Society, Dr. Carpenter was a prominent and active member. He was elected into its Executive Board in Jan., 1851 ; was Librarian for the year 1855 ; wrote for several years the reports on the Art Gallery acquisitions, and continued a member of the Executive Committee until his death, excepting the brief period of his absence from Madison. I frequently heard him speak, with pride, of the growth and increasing usefulness of the Library of this Society ; and I doubt whether any other man, excepting Mr. Draper, and Mr. Durrie, was as thoroughly posted as he in regard to all the books found in this Library.
In addition to his regular duties at the University, and the extensive literary pursuits already mentioned. Dr. Carpenter found time to respond to numerous calls throughout the State as a popu- lar lecturer, and to engage in frequent pulpit servicea He took a prominent part in the proceedings of the State Educational Association, acted on the State Board of Examiners, on the Madi- son Board of Education, visited the Normal Schools, etc. ; and had the rare faculty of being able to do all these things well.
On the 14th of May, 1856, he married Miss Frances Catherine Curtiss, in whom he found a loving and trusting wife, a woman who entered with great zeal into all his work, rejoicing with him in his successes, and taking her full share of the burden in times of adversity. They had no children, and she is now left alone to mourn the loss of a devoted and faithful husband.
About a week before Thanksgiving Day, the University Fac- ulty, with their ladies, were gathered at Dr. Carpenter's cheerful and hospitable house, where they spent a most delightful evening. How little did we think that many of us then bade good-bye for the last time 1 On the 28th of November — Thanksgiving Day — having already been informed of the death of his nephew, he received a dispatch that his brother. Dr. Calvin Carpenter, of Geneva, N. Y., was very ill On the next train he left Madison, and reached Geneva just in time to receive a fraternal blessing from his brother, who died immediately after his arrival A day or two later, Mrs. Carpenter, the Professor's wife, who remained at their home in this city, received a letter trom her husband, say- ing that he would not be able to return as soon as he had antici-
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pateil. That was all he said about himself. He cautiously with- held the fact, thM he wa9 even then suffering Trom the terribly fatal disease, n malignant type of diphtheria, which had felled his nephew and brother. Saturday morning Mrs. Carpenter re- ceived a postal card, stating that her husband was suffering from quinsy, an old enemy of the Professor. But a few moments later, Mr, A. IL Main received a telegram from Prcfesaor Carpenter's niece, dated December 7th, 1878, announcing his sudden death that morning — probably from a piece of membrane falling into or over the windpipe.
This was a sad message. It came like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and with almost crushing effect upon the partner of his bosom. Deep grief pervaded all classes ; for the Univer- eity, the church, the Masonic fraternity, the Historical Society, SDd various benevolent institutions, had all suffered a loss that could not be easily estimated.
Ob account of the contagious and malignant character ol the dieease by which Prof. Carpenter was stricken down, it was at nt proposed to bury his remains in Geneva, but he being amem- ber of the Masonic order, his brother Masons soon took the neces- sary steps and had his body brought to Madison for interment. The corpse reached here on Monday afternoon, December 9tb, and the funeral took place from the Baptist church, on Carroll street, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, of which church he had been ft member from the time he came to Madison. An able faneral diAiourse was delivered by Rav. C. O. Maltby, pastor of the ibarcb, and appropriate remarks were made by President Bascom, PfoEeteor Sterling, and Rev. E. D. Huntley, when his remains rera conveyed lo Forest Hill Cemeterj', and placed in their Bnal ostiiig place by the impressive ceremonies of his Masonic brethren.
At a Faculty meeting held in the University on Monday after- ihe 9th of December, the following resolutions were idopted and spread on the records of the proceedings:
"As Stephen H, Carpenter, a member of the Faculty, has been removed from us by sudden death, we wish to cxpressour feeling ihat the University has lost a most faithful and accomplished Iweber, and this Faculty an experienced and iudiciouscoiiaa«V\ot.
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" We wish also to extend our profound sympathy to his afflicted widow, and to the other members of the family."
It is proper for me to say, that some of the data in reference to bis career in Madison have been kindly furnished me by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, of this Society ; but the most of them were given me by Professor Carpenter himself. I happened to get them in this way: The publisher of a Philadelphia Literary Journal — Robinsons Epitome of Literature — requested me to write a few biographical sketches of western literary men. This I agreed to do. Professor Carpenter and I were intimately ac- quainted, and very fond of each other. Like school boys we used to wait for each other at the post office in the morning, so as to walk together to the University. One morning as we were making our way up State street, I told him of the request made to me, and added, that I had made up my miod to begin with him, requesting him to furnish me with notes for the basis of such a sketch. With his scholar-like modesty, he shrank from having anything to do with the proposed memoir ; but consented at last to prepare some notes in regard to the facts. These notes I made such use of as my judgment and knowledge of him and his works dictated; and just before his deparature frvim Geneva, I was able to show him proof sheets cf what I had written. He read the proof and returned it to me, stating the facts were all correct, but that he thought I had been rather lavish in my praise.
It did not occur to me then Ihat the last tragic part of this sketch would need to be written for twenty-five years to come I But so uncertain is our hold upon life ! The Epitome was re- ceived by me on Fiiday, the sixth of December, and on the seventh he passed away from earth. He did not, consequently, live to see a copy of it I was in Chicago on Saturday, chiefly on private business, but partly, too, for the purpose of negotiating with my publishers for the issuing of his new work, the Beowulf. There I stumbled upon a paragraph in the Chicago Journal^ con- taining the appalling news that my friend was no more.
In the premature death of Professor Carpenter, the country has lost an able educator, an erudite scholar, an able and lucid writer ; the University has been robbed of one of its most efficient
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teachers, and Madison mourns (or one of her beat and most ro- spected citizens. Yet, great as tbla noble man was in his public work, be was still greater and more loved in private lifa Hia friends can never forget that genial face, and the frankoesa and J goodness of his heart
Prof- 0. M, Conover, formerly a member of the University fao- olty, spoke substantially as follows :
Mr. Conover said that although be bad been requested by the proper committee to make some remarks on this occasion, and bad piomised to do so, yet, in view of the tributes which had already been paid to Dr. Carpenter in another place, and of the paper which had just been read by Pro! Anderson, and the remarlra which were still to be made here by others who had been for many years more intimately associated than himself with the deceased, be had shrunk from rising to address the committee. He should be most unwilling, however, lo keep silence, if his silence could be construed into any want of profound sympathy with the feel- ings which bad found sucii general utterance, and which are ex- pressed in the resolutions reported.
A little more than twenty-six years ago {said the speaker), I first welcomed Mr. Carpenter to Madison, He had come to join the small body of us, then constituting the faculty, who were striving, in the midst of narrow and discouraging conditions, to lay the foundations here of a great institution of learning for this State. He was then just arrived at legal manhood, justturned of twenty-one years of age, and just graduated from collega Both in personal appearance, however, and in the extent and range of bis acquirements, he seemed four or Bve years older. I quickly perceived that he was a remarkable young man, of strongly marked individuality, ot unusual self-reliance, and in many respects o£ remarkable attainments. His work in the University was in large p«rt in the same line with my own ; and our intellectual tastes aod pursuits and professional duties were so fiir alike, that we were thrown much together. From the first, he interested me greatly; and perhaps the very diversity in our characters and previous education made bim only the more an object of interest to me. Though several years Mr. Carpentei's senior, I was myself but a
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very young man ; and I sympathized deeply with the freshness of feeling, the enthusiasm, the eager hopes and the ardent ambition of this still younger man. Daring the two years he then remained in the University, I knew him well, and our relations were always cordial and friendly.
If he was sometimes rash and hasty in the formation and ex* pression of opinion ; if he sometimes amused and sometimes pro- Toked me by his excessive self-reliance and over confidence, I soon learned to recognize in these only the generous ebullitions of a large and quick brain, flushed with the triumphs of a successful student life, and grasping with eager desire at all forms of knowl- edge. Perhaps it is true that even amid the larger and riper treas- ures of scholarship of his mature life. Prof. Carpenter did not always distinguish quite as sharply as more cautious men would,, between what he actually knew and what he only supposed; and naturally this characteristic was more striking in the warm blood of his immature youth. But no man capable of judging could know him well then without perceiving that his acquirements for so young a man were really remarkable, and justified him in a large opinion of his own powers.
Of his Latin scholarship at that period I cannot speak with con- fidence. It is rather an impression than an opinion — an impres- sion largely derived from his own conversation — if I^ay that he had acquired a sufficient knowledge of it for his college purposes so easily that it had ceased to interest him, and his acquaintance with it, though superior to that of most graduates, was still rather superficial. But Greek was evidently his hobby ; he was obvi- ously a favorite student of his distinguished Greek professor, Dr. Kendrick, of Rochester, and he had delivered a Greek oration as his Commencement performance. And I have never personally known any man of his years, any graduate fresh from an Ameri- can college, who had so large an acquaintance with Greek litera- ture, especially with the Greek poets. He had already read all* the Homeric poems through several times, and was singularly familiar with several of the Greek dramatists, especially Eschylus- and Sophoclea I well remember the surprise with which I heard him propound to me, shortly after our acquaintance began, sey*
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eral bold conjectural emendations o£ his own in the received texis of these authors. I am bound to say that these emendations seemed to me at the time as either entirely unnecessary or entirely inadmissible; and prabably in his maturor years be would hira- seU have rejected them. But the mere tact that a youth of twen- ty'One should have such emendations to propose, and should urge thera with considerable cooAdenoe, is a characteristic fact which it gives me pleasure now to recall.
I soon found, too, that Mr. Carpenter's power in acquisition was no greater than his power in imaprting iostructioa. He was born to be a teacher. It in that early day he was not always gcrupulously accurate or self consistent, If his memory sometlmeB bpcame fused into his imagination and his ingenuity grew rank iolo crotchets, yet he had something in him as a teacher that was better even than accuracy, and belter than self-consistency. He had a zeal, a freshness, a vivacity, a personal piquancy, a genuine enthusiasm in the subjects which interested him, that acted like &a iiiqiiratioa upon the youug men who were capable of being iu- Bjnred.
At the end of the year Mr, Carpenter left us, greatly to our loss. 1 never cared to inquire narrowly into the circumstances of his leav- ing. Those were stringentand somewhat discouraging days at the Slate University'. The income was small ; the faculty was small ; the nuniberof students was not large,especially in the collegiate classes; and though the