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 America 477 twenty volumes, was one of the earliest citizens of the lower Fox River valley; he was an Indian agent, lawyer, judge, and army paymaster, and the partner and adviser of Juneau in the founding of Milwaukee, re- specting which enterprise his papers are particularly rich in material. At the open session of the meeting the following papers were read : "Habitat of the Winnebago, 1632-1832 ", by Publius V. Lawson; "The Old Mascontin Village", by John J. Wood, jr.; " Founding of Milwau- kee ", by Edwin S. Mack ; " Western Wisconsin Industries ", by John M. Holey ; and " Count Haraszthy ", by V. S. Pease. Among the contributions in the September Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society we note the following: " Sketch and Picture of Governor Beriah Magoffin ", by Mrs. Jennie C. Morton ; " General Joseph Montford Street ", by George Wilson ; " George Rogers Clark ", by Z. F. Smith; and " The History of the Kentucky Historical Society ", by J. W. Townsend. The Missouri Historical Society Collections, which has heretofore appeared at irregular intervals, will now be regularly published as a quarterly. Among the contents of the July number we note, as being of especial interest, an account of the " Emigration from the French 'est Indies to St. Louis in 1848," read before the Historical Society in 1878 by Edward de Laureal, one of the emigres, followed by a general ac- count of " The French Emigres, from Guadeloupe ", by Adele Hornsby, and a sketch of Edward de Laureal, by R. A. Bakewell. There are also printed some " Documents relating to the Attack upon St. Louis in 1780," selected from the Canadian archives, and a narrative by Captain William Bicknell of two expeditions from Boon's Lick to Santa Fe in 1821 and 1822. Among recent acquisitions to the collections of the Missouri His- torical Society should be noted the private papers and correspondence of the late Judge Samuel Treat; a large and unique collection of state and private bank notes, gathered by the late Edward G. Moses; the letters of General George R. Smith, the founder of Sedalia ; the " Guibourd Collection ", relating to the early French settlement of Missouri, 1752-1809; and the proceedings and papers of the Democratic Association of St. Louis County from 1839 to 1842. The State Historical Society of Missouri has published Circulars Nos. 2 and 3, calling attention to the fact that the constitution of the society provides that local organizations may be enrolled as auxiliary members of the State Society, representing the advantages of such an affiliation, and describing the various classes of materials bearing on Missouri history desired by the society. These include all publications relating to Missouri or by Missourians, manuscripts, public documents and reports, reports of organizations and societies, files of newspapers and periodicals, maps, engravings, photographs, paintings, and all manner of relics. It is the desire of the society to collect at Columbia ma-