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 America 475 Captain Samuel Davis and of Timothy Lee, and an account by the late Reverend Henry Bushnell of the Central College of Iowa. With the beginning of January, 1907, Mr. Harlow Lindley takes up his duties as chief of the division of archives in the Indiana State Library, with plans for a much more extensive collecting of historical material than has hitherto been practised in the state. The most important contributions to the Indiana Magazine of His- tory for September are " The Early Newspapers of Indiana " by George S. Cottman, and the first installment of " A Newspaper Index ", being a chronological list of the more interesting material in the Western Censor and its successor, the Indiana Journal, from March 7, 1823, to December 4, 1827. Mrs. O. P. Morton has presented to the Indiana State Library the private despatches of Governor O. P. Morton during the first two years of the Civil War, 1861 to January I, 1863. The material is very in- teresting and valuable for historical studies of the conditions in Indiana at that time. The despatches cover a large field, including many to the authorities in Washington, to oflScers at the front, to private agents, state officers, etc. Much light is thrown on preparations to meet the Morgan invasion and on political conditions. A state history of imposing appearance is Michigan as a Province, Territory, and State, by Henry M. Utley and Byron M. Cutcheon, as- sisted by Mr. Clarence M. Burton in the capacity of advisory editor ([New York], The Publishing Society of Michigan, 1906; four vols.). Among the additions made by Mr. Clarence M. Burton of Detroit to his library during the last year, several groups of important manu- scripts should be noted : a collection of papers relating to Detroit during the years 1805-1811 throw light on the transactions of the village; a small bundle of manuscripts bears on the history of Detroit and the Northwest just before the battle of Fallen Timbers, in 1794, and includes a proposal by citizens of Detroit to establish military posts at Sandusky, Miami, and elsewhere, and an official report of the militia about to be mustered to resist Wayne's advance. Another group of papers relates to the massacre of Fort Dearborn in 1812, while still another, probably the most important, comprises the papers carried in a leather pouch by General Richard Butler, and taken from his body by Indians after St. Clair's defeat. This collection was secured by Mr. Burton from one of the chiefs of the Wyandotte Indians, during the last summer. It consists of reports made to General Butler while he was in command of Fort Pitt, which relate to the Indian troubles in that neighborhood early in 1791. Mr. Burton has in an advanced stage of preparation a history of Detroit in the Revolution, which will be printed in one or two volumes, for private distribution. The regents of the University of Michigan have published through the University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a History of the Uni- AM. Hisr. KEv., vol. XII. — 31.