Page:American Historical Review, Volume 12.djvu/489

 Amc 479 have gone to make up the population of Kansas. Then follow an ac- count of the organization of population in relation to its institutional life, a discussion of " Aspects of the Social Mind ", and " Impulsive So- cial Action ", and finally, statistical tables showing the nativity of the foreign-born, by countries. We have received The County Boundaries of Colorado, by Professor Frederic L. Paxson, reprinted from University of Colorado Studies, volume III., No. 4. The article is illustrated by sixteen well-constructed maps, showing the progressive changes from 1861 to 1903. The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association held its annual session in Portland, Oregon, on November 30 and December l. The officers for the next year are: president, William D. Fenton of Portland, vice-president, James D. Phelan of San Fran- cisco, secretary, Professor C. A. Duniway of Leland Stanford University. For the preservation and maintenance of the Bancroft Library, the regents of the University of California have resolved on the establish- ment of an " Academy of Pacific Coast History ", and for a curator and staff of assistants. The academy is to be installed in the new university library building. The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for September is devoted to the addresses delivered upon the occasion of the reinterment of the remains of Jason Lee, the Oregon missionary pioneer, and to a continuation of the reprint of Johnson and Winter's Route Across the Rocky Mountains. We have received McDonald of Oregon, by Eva Emery Dye (Chi- cago, A. C. McClurg, 1906). Although the narrative is based (accord- ing to the author's "Foreword") upon an exhaustive examination of historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical publi- cation. The hero of the narrative, whose biography is supposed to be set forth here, is Ronald McDonald (1824-1894), one of the pioneers of the northwest, and among the first Americans in Japan. A cordial welcome should be extended to the Washington Historical Quarterly, the organ of the Washington University State Historical Society, of which the first number appears for October, 1906. It is published at Seattle, in good form; Professor Edmond S. Meany is the managing editor. The arrangement is in the usual four subdivisions — articles,documents, reviews, news, with the added feature of a section in which rare printed works relating to the history of the state and of the Northwest Coast may be reprinted. Thus, in the first number is presented an installment of George Wilkes's History of Oregon. The most important article is one by Mr. Harvey W. Scott of the Oregonian, on " Jason Lee's Place in History ". Others are on Washington nomen- clature, by Dr. J. N. Bowman, and on the Cayuse War, our first Indian war in the Northwest, by Mr. Clarence B. Bagley.