Book Additions

We have made an unusually large addition to our department of periodical literature-English and American magazines and reviews: in some places securing complete sets, in others filling up gaps in imperfect sets: Blackwood, 1817-70, 109 vols.; United Service Journal, 1829-58, 88 vols.; North American Review, 1820-68, 88 vols.; Fraser's Magazine, 1830–65, 72 vols.; North British Review, 1844-69, 51 vols.; Notes and Queries, 1849-68, 46 vols.; Harper's Magazine, 1850-70, 42 vols.; British Naval Chronicle, complete, 1799-1818, 40 vols.; Classical Journal, complete, 1819-29, 40 vols.; Democratic Review, 1838-59, 39 vols.; The Athenæum, 1837-62, 26 vols.; Historical Register, the predecessor of the British Annual Register, 1714-38, 25 vols.; New Englander, 1843-66, 25 vols.; Cornhill Magazine, 1850-70, 22 vols.; Retrospective Review, 1820-54, 18 vols.; National Review, 1855-64, 13 vols.; Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 1819-24, 10 vols.; Popular Science Review, 1862-71, 10 vols.; Southern Review, 1828-32, complete, 8 vols.; Southern Literary Messenger, 1849-51, 1861-64, 9 vols.; Anglo-American Magazine, 1852-55, 7 vols.; British Sporting Magazine, 7 vols.; American Monthly Magazine, 1833-38, 6 vols.; The Cincinnatus, 5 vols.; Putnam's Magazine, new series, 5 vols.; Chicago Western Monthly, 3 vols.; Atlantic Monthly, Continental Monthly, Military and Naval Magazine, and Edinburgh Mirror, 2 vols. each; Historic-Genealogical Register, United States Service Magazine, Southern Literary Journal, Register, and Magazine, Ladies' Magazine, The Hesperian, and the Chicago Magazine, one vol. each-total, 832 volumes.

Among other important additions, the following may be specified: English Historical Society Collections, a complete set, 1833-56, 25 vols.; London Society of Antiquaries, Proceedings, 1843-69, 7 vols.; Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1848-64, 17 vols.; Encyclopedia Britannica, latest edition, 22 vols., folio., Philological Society's Proceedings, 1842-69, with additional volumes on AngloSaxon and old English Philology, 21 vols.; Ulster Journal of Archæology, 1853-62, 9 vols.; Manx Society Publications (Isle of Man), 1859-67, 13 vols.; Domesday Book, complete, 1783-1816, 4 vols., folio; Catalogues of MSS. in British Museum, 1782-1844, 7 vols., folio and quarto; British Almanac, 1828-65, 39 vols.; Alison's

History of Europe, from 1789 to 1852, 21 vols.; Lingard's History of England, 10 vols.; Knight's Illustrated History of England, 8 vols.; Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire, 7 vols.; Topography and Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff, 1843-69, 5 vols., quarto; Chambers's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 5 vols.; Woodward's History of Hampshire, England, 3 vols., quarto; The Crisis, London, 1775, 1 vol.

Father M. Crespel's Travels, in 1720, in Wisconsin and the other portions of America, Lond., 1797; Hist. of the American War, 177583, Dublin, 3 vols; Timberlake's Memoirs, 1765; Alden's Collection of American Epitaphs, 5 vols; Benton's Congressional Debates, 16 vols.; Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, 8 vols.; I. D. Rupp's scarce volumes on Geography, &c., of Western States, and Histories of Lancaster, Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, Berks and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania; four large quarto ScrapBooks on the War of the Rebellion; Buckingham Smith's Relations Cabeza De Vaca pertaining to the early Discoveries and Explorations of Florida, published by Joel Munsell, 1871; Hariot's Brief and True Report of Virginia, in fac-simile, from De Bry's edition of 1590, Sabin's reprint, 1872; Papers Relating to the History of the Church in Pennsylvania, 1680-1778, edited by Rev. Dr. W. S. Perry, 1871; S. G. Drake's Notes on Norton's Narratives of the Capture and Burning of Fort Massachusetts, 1744-49; Journal of Wm. Trent, in the Ohio valley, 1752, printed by Robert Clarke, for Wm. Dodge; Memoirs of Tarleton Brown, Narrative of Lieut. James Moody, Narrative of John Blatchford, narrative of Ebenezer Fletcher, Journal of R. J. Meigs on Quebec Expedition of 1775, Narrative of Levi Hanford, Journal of Solomon Nash, and Adventures of Christopher Hawkins, eight rare and interesting works on the Revolutionary War, privately printed, and edited by Charles I. Bushnell, who has rendered invaluable service to the historical literature of the country.

We have also received the sixth and concluding volume of Charlevoix's History of New France, embracing Wisconsin and other portions of the Northwest, as he saw them in 1720-22, translated and edited with great ability by John G. Shea, LL. D., to whom the whole country is largely indebted for this and other works illustrative of the early history and exploration of Canada, and the western and northwestern portions of the Union. His twenty volumes of Me

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moirs and Relations concerning the French Colonies in America, his thirteen volumes on American Linguistics, embracing a series of grammars and dictionaries of American languages, his six quarto volumes of Charlevoix's valuable work, his Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, his Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, and his History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States-may be truthfully cited as a monument to the patience, industry, and ability with which he has written, translated, and edited this valuable series of works on the Red Men, and the early pioneer explorers of the Northern and Western wilderness.

To summarize, there have been added to the library 832 volumes of Magazines and Reviews; Congressional Documents, 212; European History, 178; Science, 129; Historical and learned Societies, 113; Philology, 99; American History, 133; Local History, 52; Biography, 75; Rebellion History, 65; War of the Revolution, 19; War of 1812, 8; Mexican War, 15; Indians and Indian Wars, 25; Bibliography, 37; Genealogy, 40; Cyclopedias, 27; Documents of various States, 87; Education, 24; Voyages and Travels, 18; Archæology and Antiquities, 14.

To the Newspaper department the additions have been larger than in any preceding year-404 volumes, making the total number of newspaper files 2,044. During the year we secured by purchase, at a very cheap price, a set in quarto size of the Holland Mercury, 1651 to 1790, and also from 1801 to 1815; Leyden Gazette, quarto, from 1765 to 1782, and the Paris Gazette, 1796-97-making 210 volumes, all but the 2 volumes of the Paris Gazette, in the Holland language, forming a most fitting addition to the Tank portion of our Library-containing, doubtless, many quaint items of early Holland migrations to our country, and much curious and valuable matter pertaining to the pecuniary aid furnished our struggling country during the Revolutionary war, by patriotic bankers and capitalists of Holland.

The file of the Detroit Gazette for nearly ten successive years, published at a period when it was the only newspaper representative of Michigan Territory, then embracing what is now Wisconsin within its limits, and containing a vast amount of early information and passing events of our own geographical region no where else to be found render its acquisition one of peculiar importance and significance. It was preserved by the late Hon. John P. Sheldon, one of its early editors and publishers, who subsequently became a pioneer settler of Wisconsin-and whose career we hope hereafter to deservedly commemorate in our pages. We are indebted for this valuable gift to his children, Thos. H. Sheldon and sisters. So far as early Wisconsin history is concerned, our Society has never received a richer acquisition.

Of the 404 newspaper volumes received the past year, 51 were published in the seventeenth century, 146 in the eighteenth, and the remainder in the present century. Our total newspaper files are now distributed in the three centuries as follows: 54 in the seventeenth; 359 in the eighteenth, and 1,685 in the nineteenth. In this invaluable department of historical literature-and we cannot well over-estimate its present and ever-increasing valuefew, if any, equals will be found in any collections in the country. We now receive 131 periodicals preserved for binding, namely: three quarterlies, six monthlies, seven dailies, two semi-weeklies, one hundred and five weeklies, published in the State, and eight beyond the limits of Wisconsin. This is a considerably larger number than we have reported in any former year.

To the Map and Atlas department have been added an Atlas of Benton county, Iowa, 1872, from R. H. Marshall and Geo. E. Warner; a large mounted map of the city of Madison, 1872, from Taylor & Willets, 2 maps of the Northern Pacific railroad route and tributary region, from N. B. Van Slyke, and 8 early American

maps mostly of the Colonial and Revolutionary period, from L. C. Draper; making a total of maps and atlases, 546.

Book and Pamphlet Donors

Hon. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, 75 vols.; Hon. Oliver Warner, Sec. Commonwealth of Mass., 64 vols.; State of Wisconsin, 36 vols.; Lyman C. Draper, 26 vols. and 180 pamphlets; Jos. Sabin & Sons, 28 vols. and 66 pamphlets; Hon. M. H. Carpenter, 24 vols.; Hon. Alexander Mitchell, 23 vols. and 3 pamphlets; Buffalo Historical Society, 24 vols. and 22 pamphlets; Mrs. Chas. M. Baker, 13 vols.; Dr. Edward Jarvis, 8 vols. and 21 pamphlets; Charles I. Bushnell, 8 vols.; Hon. T. O. Howe, 4 vols. and 108 pamphlets; J. H. Tesch, 6 vols. and 10 pamphlets; Iowa Historical Society, 5 vols.; New Jersey Historical Society, 4 vols. and 2 pamphlets; Joel Munsell, 4 vols. and 31 pamphlets; Hon. G. W. Hazelton, 4 vols. and 5 pamphlets; Library of Congress, A. C. Smith, E. H. Mundy, and H. P. Magill, 4 vols. each; Robert Clarke, 3 vols. and 4 pamphlets; Hon. David Atwood, Gen. W. W. Belknap, Gen. F. A. Walker, Chas. S. Hoyt, J. H. Blackfan and Minnesota Historical Society, 3 vols. each; Rev. M. Hodges, Sarah Mahan, W. S. George, Admiral B. F. Sands, State of Nevada, American Bible Society, and Wis. Agricultural Society, 2 vols. each; Rev. Dr. W. Stevens Perry, 1 vol. and 27 pamphlets; Dr. M. F. Stephenson, 1 vol. and 2 pamphlets; Gen. Simeon Mills, 1 vol. and 27 pamphlets; Prof. W. F. Allen, 1 vol. and 27 pamphlets; Rev. Dr. A. Brunson, 1 vol. and 17 pamphlets; Rev. Dr. Geo. Hale, 1 vol. and 10 pamphlets; New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Rev. A. C. Pennock, Vermont Historical Society, and Yale College, 1 vol. and 1 pamphlet each; and the following one volume each: Armitage & Pratt, Hon. Ll. Breese, Pres't. P. A. Chadbourne, Am. Philosophical Society, Charleroi Paleontological and Archæological Society, Hon. Ezra Cornell, W. Cothren, Gen. J. W. De Peyster, George Derby, Perley Derby, Essex Institute, E. II. Fletcher, D. S. Gardiner, Col. Bolling Gordon, Col. W. S. Hatch, C. J. Hoadly, Dr. F. A. Koss, W. J. Langson, A. Loubat, Mass. Historical Society, P. McCabe, Col. R. Monteith, J. B. Newcomb, New York Park Commissioners, New York State Library, Rev. R. M. Overstreet, Hon. J. G. Palfrey, Prof. T. J. Parvin, C. D. Plumb, Prof. B. Pierce, Dr. S. J. Parker, Henry Stevens, Rev. Elliott Sanford, Tennessee State