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 478 Notes and News terials for a library and museum which shall constitute the principal repository of its kind in the state. A bronze tablet in memory of General 'iniam Clark was unveiled in St. Louis on September 26, under the auspices of the Civic League of St. Louis and of the Missouri Historical Society. The principal ad- dress was by Dr. R. G. Thwaites on " William Clark, Soldier, Explorer, Statesman ". The three articles that make up the body of the loiva Journal of History and Politics for October are all useful contributions. " The Origin of the Republican Party in Iowa ", by Louis Pelzer, is accom- panied by an appendix containing lists of the members and officers of the state convention of 1856. Of more general interest perhaps is the article on the " Origin, Principles, and History of the American Party ", by Ira Cross, while " Federal and State Aid to Education in Iowa ", by Hugh S. Buffum, is a valuable summary, illustrated with tables. A new feature in the Journal which should prove to be well worth while if continued is a list of " Historical Items in Several Iowa Nev.'soapers from December, 1905, to September, 1906 ". Professor Shambaugh of the State University of Iowa has issued the Executive Journal of Iowa, 1838-1841, under Governor Robert Lucas (Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1906, pp. xxv, 341). The journal is printed from a manuscript record recently discovered among the papers of Robert Lucas. Notwithstanding that the Organic Act of the Territory of Iowa required that a record of executive proceedings be kept and transmitted to the President, this journal apparently is pre- served in official records neither in Iowa nor at Washington. The volume illustrates the difficulties of territorial governors during the period to which it relates. The Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society for igo$- ipo6 (Topeka, State Printing Office, 1906, pp. xi, 654) print fourteen addresses, mainly on Kansas topics, delivered at the annual meetings of the society in 1904 and 1905 or in connection with the semi-centennial anniversary of the territorial organization of Kansas. Amongst them is the speech of Mr. William H. Taft on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, at Topeka in May, 1904. The remainder of the volume is devoted to papers on early Catholic and Methodist missions amongst the Indians of Kansas, the navigation of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, and polit- ical and military topics in the history of the state. The volume is the ninth issued by the Kansas Society. The Peopling of Kansas, by Wallace E. Miller (Columbus, Ohio, 1906), a Columbia University doctoral dissertation, is intended mainly as a sociological study, conducted on a historical basis. After de- scribing the " environment " in Kansas and discussing the effect of it upon population, the author takes up successively the various races and nationalities (Indian, native white American, European, Negro) that