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103 THE SOCIETY'S ACTIVITIES. 103 Tales of the Sierras. By J. W. Hayes. Portland. F. W. Baltes & Company, 1905. 8vo, Illustrated. 136 pp. ( Preceding- 20 vols. donated by Geo. H. Himes.) Instructions to the Surveyors General of Public Lands, etc. Illus- trated by diagrams. Washington, D. C., 1855. 8vo. Full sheep. 90 pp. Donated by R. V. Short, Portland. Report on Indian Affairs to the Secretary of War in 1820. By Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D., commissioned by the President. New Haven, 1822. 8vo. Full calf. 496 pp. Black Hawk, Life and Adventures of, with Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War. By Ben- jamin Drake. 7th ed. Cincinnati, 1847. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. 288pp. (The two preceding vols. presented by Jos. Dobbins, Quincy, Oregon.) Mayor's Message and Municipal Reports, Portland, Oregon, 1903. 8vo. Cloth. 404 pp. Six Sermons on Intemperance. By Rev. Lyman Beecher. New York, 1827. Owned by Thomas C. Shaw, a pioneer of 1844. Has his autograph. 32mo. Cloth. 104 pp. Portland City Directories: 1864, 1865, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890. Donated byN. B. Lappeus, Portland. Bible, with Psalms of David in Metre. Edinburgh, 1758. 32mo. Leather. Mutilated. Inscribed "Agness Burnie is the owner of this Bible, Anno Domino, 1773." Bible. New York, 1848. 32mo. Morocco. Inscribed " Presented to the Rev. John Rigdon, late of the Christian Church of Louisa County, Iowa, now Missionary to Oregon Territory, by the Young Men of Columbus City, Iowa, Sunday, March 4, 1852. ' ' Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Phebe Ellen Parker, Goshen, Oregon. Bible. In German. Tr. by Martin Luther. Printed in Wittem- berg, 1626, by Samuel Selfisch's Sons. Large quarto, heavy wooden boards 3-16 thick. Full leather ornately stamped. Copiously Illus- trated. Family record on flyleaf, 1698 to 1737. Prayer Book. German. Frankfort, 1679. Title p. in 2 colors. 24mo. Leather. (Last two books loaned by John Jessen). Bible. English. Oxford, 1769. Small quarto. Loaned by Mrs. E. B. Porter, Portland. Adventures of James Capen Adams, The, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California. By Theodore H. Hittell. San Francisco, 1860. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. 378pp. Discoverers and Pioneers of America, by H. F. Parker. New York, 1856. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. 416pp. (Two preceding vols. presented by D. W. Craig, Salem.)