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 476 Notes and News versify of Michigan, prepared by the late Professor B. A. Hinsdale, with biographical sketches of regents and members of the faculties from 1837 to 1906, by Professor Demmon. The work is richly illustrated with pictures of the buildings and grounds and with portraits of the regents and professors. Publication No. 10 of the Illinois State Historical Library is Trans- actions of the Illinois State Historical Society for 1905. It is composed of the record of the official proceedings, papers read at the annual meet- ing in 1905, contributions to state history, and obituaries. We have space to mention only a few among the many papers and contributions : " The Value of a Closer Connection between the State Historical Society and the Public Schools ", by Henry McCormick ; " The Bloomington Con- vention of 1856 and those who Participated in it ", by J. ,0. Cunningham; " A Contribution toward a Bibliography of Morris Birkbeck and the English Settlement in Edwards County ", by C. W. Smith ; " Early His- tory of the Drug Trade of Chicago", by A. E. Ebert; and " Puritan In- fluences in Illinois before i860 ", by Carrie P. Koboid. Lazvs of the Territory of Illinois, iSop-1811 (pp. xiv, 34) is the title of the latest Bulletin of the Illinois State Historical Library (Volume I., No. II., June). It is edited by Clarence W. Alvord, and is a revised and enlarged edition of the library's Publication No. 2. which has the title Information relating to the Territorial Lazvs of Illinois, and which was prepared by Edmund J. James. The thirty-four laws here printed constitute the complete legislative record of the first phase of territorial government in Illinois, and are now collected for the first time. Several of the laws were found among the Kaskaskia records, the recent dis- covery of which has already been noted in these columns. The intro- duction by Professor Alvord is a valuable contribution to the territorial history of Illinois, and particularly interesting is his account of how, after much searching, the collection was at last completed. The annual report of the Chicago Historical Society, November 20. 1906, shows that organization to be in a flourishing condition. Over 1,600 volumes and pamphlets have been added to the library during the past year, and the very remarkable collection of early prints, photo- graphs, and stereoscopic views of historic places and personages in Illinois and the Mississippi valley has been classified and filed. The fifty-fourth annual meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin was held in Madison on October 18. Dr. Thwaites's report as superintendent shows that during the past year there has been an accession of over 10,000 titles to the library and that two especially valu- able collections of manuscripts have been added. These are the papers of Moses M. Strong and of Morgan L. Martin. Strong was a resident of Mineral Point, a pioneer lawyer, surveyor, town-site promoter, and historian, and his papers, filling two hundred volumes, throw interesting light on the affairs of early Wisconsin. Martin, whose papers fill about