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 730 Notes and News as a separate pamphlet. The report was prepared in compHance with the request of the trustees of the State Library and Historical Depart- ment, for recommendations relative to the installation of a Hall of Pub- lic Archives in Iowa under the provisions of the act of the general as- sembly of April 10, 1906, " providing for the care and permanent preser- vation of the public archives ". The document consists of general in- formation respecting archive matters, especially in the various states of the United States ; of an account of the situation in Iowa, and a statement of the problems relative to the public archives in that state; concluding with a specific recommendation as to the method of caring for them. Of especial interest is the scheme of classification of the ad- ministrative archives as presented in the report. It may not be out of place in this connection to call attention to the desirability at least in those states where archives are now being rearranged, that uniform plans of arrangement should if practicable be followed. In the same number of the Annals is printed an interesting document by William Salter, " Jour- nal of a Missionary in Jackson County, Iowa Territory, 1843-1846." The loxi-'a Journal of History and Politics for January continues Mr. Buffum's article on " Federal and State Aid to Education in Iowa " and prints " The History and Principles of the Whigs of the Territory of Iowa ", by Louis Pelzer, and a long communication from Edgar Hull, defending General William Hull against the condemnations in the diary of Robert Lucas, published in the July number of the Journal. Volume II. of the Proceedings of the Academy of Science and Letters of Sioux City, Iowa, for 1905-1906, is at hand. Among the contribu- tions of historical interest may be noted " Reminiscences of John H. Charles ", by F. H. Carver, " Result of the Investigation of the Indian Mounds at Broken Kettle Creek ", by W. T. Stafford, and " Bibliography of Sioux City Authors ", part 11., by F. H. Carver. The State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado has brought out as No. i of its "Historical Series" of Publications (Den- ver, 1906, pp. 159) an illustrated volume by the late William C. Whit- ford, on Colorado Volunteers in the Civil IVar: The New Mc.rico Cam- paign in 1862. The preface is written by Jerome C. Smiley. A large amount of material relating to the Pacific northwest has been collected by Professor E. S. Meany and will be published by Mac- millan in a book on Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound. The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for March com- mences the reprint of a book of which only two copies are known to exist : " Route across the Rocky Mountains with a Description of Oregon and California ... by Overton Johnson and Wm. H. Winter of the Emigration of 1843: Lafayette, Ind., John B. Seamans, Printer, 1846". Among other material in this number may be noted " Recollections of an Oregon Pioneer of 1843 ", by Samuel Penter, and " The First Fruits of the Land ", a brief history of early horticulture in Oregon, by Dr. J. R. Cardwell.