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 America 213 lakes, with especial reference to the history of the Niagara region". The Department of History appointed by Governor Pennypacker and the Jamestown Exposition Commission of Pennsylvania, as already noted, has been actively at work during the summer in preparing for the exhibit. The work is under the direction of Professor M. D. Learned, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Albert C. Myers, and has comprised much search in the records of the state and of its southeastern counties. Much material illustrative of the industrial and domestic life of the early settlers will be exhibited. Of especial interest to historians will be the series of historical maps — wall-maps, on a large scale, illustrating the extent of population at intervals of about twenty years. In their construction the frontier has been accurately determined, by means of land-warrants, surveys, patents, tax-lists, court records, and personal records, and the racial composition of the -population has been designated. There will also be special maps showing such economic and social features as roads, mills, and churches. The leading article in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography for July is by F. B. Sanborn : " The ' American Farmer ', St. John de Crevecoeur, and his Famous Letters (1755-1813)". Among the documents published in the issue we note " Extracts from the Journal of Rev. Andreas Sandel, Pastor of ' Gloria Dei ' Swedish Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, 1702-1719", another installment (July I to November 29, 1794) of Washington's Household Account Book. 1793-1797, a long letter from General Greene to Washington, dated September 11, 1781, from "Head Quarters Martins Tavern Near Fer- guson's Swamp Soufh Carolina ", containing his account of the battle of Eutaw Springs, and a list, by Albert J. Edmunds, of the first books imported in 1732, by the Library Company of Philadelphia. In the list of accessions to the librarj' of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, during 1905, we note the papers of Naval Constructor Joshua Hum- phreys, the Charles Godfrey Leland papers, and a large quantity of mis- cellaneous titles. Volume IX. (1905) of the Proceedings and Collections of the Wy- oming Historical and Geological Society, edited by H. E. Hayden, con- tains in addition to articles of geological and ethnological interest, " Pioneer Physicians of the Wyoming Valley. 1771-1825 ", by F. C. Johnson; "The Early Bibliography of Pennsylvania", by Samuel W. Pennypacker; and "'The Expedition of Colonel Thomas Hartley against the Indians in 1778 to Avenge the Massacre of Wyoming", by Rev. David Craft. The June number of the Records of the American Catholic His- torical Society contains, aside from continuations, the first installment of the " Letters and Diary of Father Joseph Mosley. S. J.", covering the years 1757-1786, when he was a missionary in Maryland. The docu- ments are from the Shea Collection in Georgetown College, and are edited by Rev. Edward I. Devitt, S. J.