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61 members of the club were present. Mr. Charles B. Moores read the names of twenty-nine members who have died since the annual meeting one year ago. Mr. C. M. Idleman presided over the meeting and Mr. F. B. Irvine and Mr .Leslie M. Scott were the principal speakers of the occasion. A feature of the dinner was the Pioneer table, seating only those who were over eighty years of age.

The most important addition to Northwest History is the "Pioneers' Edition of the History of the Oregon Country" by Harvey W. Scott, edited by his son, Leslie M. Scott.

The history is virtually a history of the Oregon country as told in the editorial and news columns of the Oregonian during the 40 years regime of Harvey W. Scott, one of the notably outstanding men in the annals of American journalism.

The work is made exceptionally valuable by its extensive foot-notes and appendices by the compiler, his son. This compilation represents some 14 years of continuous work on the part of Mr. Leslie Scott.

The work is in six volumes, including a complete general index. Volume one, is composed of a review of Harvey W. Scott's life and work and of his writings on discovery, exploration and acquisition in the Oregon country; volume two, deals with pioneer settlement, early government, nomenclature, etc; volume three, with varied matters of Oregon history; volume four, with railroad history; volume five, with political comments, "weather" and things in general, and volume six is the index. The edition is limited to five hundred sets and is from the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.