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 literature, and in this and other respects she stands unapproached among the female authors of the Pacific coast.

Here are given items of this nature, informal sequels and addenda to what has appeared in the regular chapters, numerous short and unconnected appendices, a residue with a literary flavor, a miscellaneous overflow for the most part contemporaneous in its expression.

In 1846 and later, the Reverend H. H. Spalding collected specimens for Asa Gray, the famous botanist of Har vard University.

The following note on Dr. John McLoughlin's library is from the scrapbooks of Samuel A. Clarke, being a quotation from George H. Himes in an article by John M. Canse:

I do not think that there was anyone in the Oregon country who had a catalogue or inventory of his library before that of H. B. Brewer, unless it was Dr. John McLoughlin. He had a history of France, as well as of England, as well as Vancouver's and Cook's works; and in addition Addison's Spectator, and other works in English, as well as a History of the French Revolution in French. My authority is Dr. William C. McKay, a step-grandson, given me about 1890.

The Spectator, Oregon City, Feb. 10, 1848. Aaron E. Wait, editor:

The undersigned, in accepting the Editorial chair of the Oregon Spectator, undertakes to discharge its duties honestly, and faithfully, and with such ability as he possesses. . ..

The Oregon Spectator is the only newspaper published in this Territory, and we feel that, with the news, incidents and pleasantries of the day, it should not only contain such information as would be instructive and useful, but it should also speak freely and fully of Oregon's great resources and peculiar advantages.... The library of Peter Skene Ogden's son-in-law and other libraries of the 40's described by J. Orin Oliphant in the Washington Historical Quarterly for January, 1934:

Whatever may have been the compelling reason of Dr. Marcus Whitman's famous ride from Waiilatpu to the United States in 1842-43, one of the minor consequences of the journey was the