history of the Society. Other addresses were delivered upon subjects pertaining to Kansas history, as follows:

Prof. I. T. Goodnow, Manhattan, Personal Reminiscences, being an account of the founding of Manhattan by a New England Emigrant Aid party in 1855, of which party Prof. Goodnow was the leader.

Hon. S. A. Kingman, Topeka, on the Growth and Development of Kansas.

Prof. W. H. Carruth, Lawrence, on the subject of the Origin of Kansas Geographical Names.

C. A. Hiller, Esq., Salina, on the Padouacas, and other Aboriginal Tribes of Kansas.

C. F. Scott, Iola, on the subject of the Pioneer Press of Kansas.

Hon. H. N. Lester, Syracuse, on the Colonization of the Upper Arkansas Valley in Kansas.

Hon. J. Ware Butterfield, Florence, on the subject of the Kansas Historical Society, the character of its work, and the importance of maintaining it. Columbus Borin, of Oberlin, on Kansas, her History, her History-makers, and her Historical Society.

Hon. James F. Legate, Leavenworth, on the Pioneers of Kansas, referring particularly to the services of Joel K. Goodin, Samuel C. Pomeroy, John Brown, and some others.

Noble L. Prentis, Newton, on the subject of the Swedish, Bohemian, Irish, and other colonies of foreigners in Kansas.

Historical papers were prepared and presented to the meeting by persons who were not present, as follows:

John P. Jones, of Coldwater, on the subject of the alleged Exploration of Lieut. Du Tisne, in 1719, of the country of the Osages, Pawnees and Padouacas.

J. S. Painter, of Garden City, on Southwestern Kansas, its settlement, development, and transformation.

Prof. C. A. Swensson, of Lindsborg, on the History of the Swedish American settlements in Kansas.

Printed or manuscript copies of most of these addresses and papers are in the files of the Society, and should form a part of a volume of collections which should be published at an early day.

TERM OF OFFICE OF PRESIDENT.

At the annual meeting in January, 1888, Hon. D. W. Wilder, having held the office of President for one year, resigned the position, and Hon. Edward Russell of Lawrence was elected in his stead for the unexpired term of one year. This was done in pursuance of the suggestion made by Gen. Wilder and approved by a vote of the Board of Directors, that it would be better for the interests of the Society that the term of the office of President should be but for one year, instead of two years as provided in the constitution.

An amendment of the constitution for this object has been proposed and placed in the minutes of the Society for consideration at the annual meeting in 1889. It is in the following words:

"The elective officers of the Society shall consist of a President and two VicePresidents, who shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors shall be chosen; a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall hold their offices for the term of two years, and until their successors shall be chosen; said officers to be chosen by the Board of Directors from their members, their election to be made at the first meeting of the Board subsequent to the annual meeting of the Society, and their terms of office shall begin at the date of their election and qualification in office."

At this meeting, also, Hon. William A. Phillips, of Salina, was elected one of the Vice-Presidents, in the place of Hon. Henry H. Williams, who has removed from the State.

FINANCES, 1887.

The finances of the Society for the year ending January 17, 1888, including the Treasurer's account of receipts and expenditures and the expenditures from the appropriations made by the Legislature, as shown at the annual meeting, 1888, were as follows:

1887.

RECEIPTS.

Jan. 18, Appropriations to June 30, 1887.....

18, Balance in hands of Treasurer of Society, fees.. "18, Balance of miscellaneous appropriation

July 1, Appropriation to June 30, 1888....

Receipts from membership fees..

Total....

$1,135 39

3 20 322 62

4,250 00

54 00

$5,765 21

The finances for the period commencing January 18, and ending November 20th, 1888, are as follows:

1888.

RECEIPTS.

Jan. 17, Balance of appropriation to June 30, 1888.....

17, Balance in hands of Treasurer of Society, fees.

July 1, Appropriation to June 30, 1889...

Receipts from membership fees..

Total....

$1,793 33

42 80 4,250 00

54 00

$6,145 13

The following classified lists show the principal accessions of books and pamphlets to the library during the period covered by the report:

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND JOURNALISM.-Indexes to 16 vols. New York Daily Tribune; Clarke's Globe Dictionary of the English Language; Publishers' Trade-List Annual, 1888; Bulletins of the Library Company of Philadel phia; Hammett's Bibliography of Newport, Rhode Island; Proceedings of the Mississippi Press Association, 1885-6; Norton's History of the Texas Press; Perrin's Pioneer Press of Kentucky; English Catalogue of Books for 1887; Annual American Catalogue, 1887; Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Continuous Index to Periodicals; Prof. M. M. Campbell's Publications on the Improvement of the English Alphabet, 5 pamphlets; Knudsen's Spelling Reform Publications, 3; Gibson's Bibliography of Short-hand; Sampson's History of Advertising; Bates's Advertiser's Handy Guide; Bates's Advertiser's Guide Book, 1888; Alden's American Newspaper Catalogue, 1886; Rowell's American Newspaper Directories, 7 vols.; Ayer's Newspaper Annual,, 1886, 1887.

RELIGION, TEMPERANCE, MORMONISM.-Walsh's Echoes of Bible History; Reports of American Sunday School Union; The Policy of the M. E. Church, 1842; Kerr's People's History of Presbyterianism; Pingree and Rice's Debate on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation; Bradlee's Sermons for All Sects; Mayo's Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; History of the American Missionary Association; Adams's Bohemian Work in Chicago; The West Church, Boston, Commemorative Services, 1887; Cooke's History of the Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, Mass.; Kidder's Mormons, 1852; Gunnison's Mormons or Latter Day Saints; Hyde's Mormonism, Its Leaders and Designs; Annual Report Kansas Y. M. C. A., 1888; Historical Sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of Lawrence, Kansas, 1888; Kansas Baptist Annual, 1886; Clubb's Maine Liquor Law and Life of Neal Dow; Proceedings of the United Grand Commandery Knights Templar, 1886; Armstrong's Temperance Reformation.

UNITED STATES PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.-Congressional Documents, 172 vols.; Presidents' Messages and Documents, 1873-1882, 13 vols.; Reports of the Secretary of U. S. Treasury; Annual Report U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, 1888; Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Patents, 1884; Statistics of the United States Domestic Commerce of 1863; Nimmo's Internal

Commerce of the United States; Nimmo's Commerce and Navigation; Reports, Commerce and Navigation of the United States, 6 vols.; Commercial Relations of the United States, 1862; Index to U. S. Consular Reports; Statistics and Preliminary Reports of the U. S. Census, 1860; Reports of the Director of U. S. Mint, 7 vols.; Proceedings of National Prison Reform Congress; Proceedings of the U. S. Conference of Charities and Corrections; Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Labor, 1887; Proceedings of the National Convention of Bureaus of Statistics and Labor, 4 vols.; Bulletins of U. S. Fish Commissioner, 1881-4; Bulletins of U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, vols. 2, 3 and 4; Annual Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries; Goode's Fisheries and Fish Industries of the United States; Bulletins and Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 11 vols.; Report of U. S. Chief Signal Officer, 1887; Report of the U. S. Chief Signal Office; Reports of the Chief Signal Officer of the United States, 4 vols.; Annual Reports of the U. S. Light House Board, 1886 and 1887, 2 vols.; U. S. Life-Saving Service Report; Annual Reports and Maps of the U. S. Coast Survey, 5 vols.; U. S. Official Postal Guide; Annual Report of the U. S. Superintendent of Public Documents.

STATE DOCUMENTS.-Reports of Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners; Reports of Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York Railroad Commissioners; Reports of Iowa State Veterinary Surgeon; Reports Iowa State Library, 9 vols.; Census of the State of New York, 1875; Year Book of Charleston, South Carolina, 1887; Report of the Massachusetts Board of Lunacy and Charity, 1887; Reports of Ohio Meteorological Bureau; Bulletins Nebraska and Missouri Weather Service; Annual Reports of the Governors of Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Washington, and Wyoming Territories; Publications of Montana Territory, 16 vols.; Reports of the Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan and Wisconsin State Boards of Health; Reports of the New Jersey and New York Bureaus of Statistics of Labor; Michigan Registration of Vital Statistics, 1872; Ohio State Statistical Report; Reports of Indiana Department of Statistics.

POLITICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Journal of Debates in the Massachusetts Convention, 1820-21; Discussions on the Massachusetts Constitution of 1853; Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States; Stanwood's History of Presidential Elections; Bartlett's Presidential Candidates, 1860; Henry's Messages of President Buchanan; Benton's Thirty Years' View; Works of William H. Seward, 5 vols.; Mill's Essay on Liberty; McPherson's Hand-Book of Politics, 1868, 1872, 1880, 1888; Proceedings in the Cases of the Impeachment of Kansas State Officers, 1862; Trumbull's American Lesson of the Free Trade Struggle in England; Lieb's Protective Tariff; Peffer's Tariff Manual; Oglesby's Usury; Prohibition Party Campaign Documents, 1886, 1888; The Knight's Book, the Principles and Aims of the Knights of Labor; Gunton's Wealth and Progress; Kellogg's Labor and Capital; Smith's Hard Times, Suggestions to Workers and Hints

to the Rich; Jacobson's Hints Toward Settling the Labor Troubles; Foreman's Big Wages and How to Earn Them; Gilmore's Republican Campaign Songs, 1888; Colton's Labor Songs; Ingalls' Social Wealth; Norcross' History of Democracy; Lumry's National Suicide and Its Prevention ; Parsons' Rights of a Citizen of the United States; Quarantine Laws of the United States; Endicott's Immigration Laws of the United States, State and National; Cullin's China in America; Dillon's Oddities of Colonial Legislation; Chapman's Right and Wrong in Massachusetts; Hale's How They Lived in Hampton; Woman Suffrage in Kansas; Reynolds's History of the Grand Lodge of Illinois; Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kansas, 1870-1875; Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Kansas, 1886-8; Proceedings of the Grand Commandery of Kansas, 1868-1885; Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Kansas, 1866-1874.

SLAVERY.-Elliot's Bible and Slavery; Clarkson's Essay on Slavery; Alcot's African Colonization; Channing's West India Emancipation; The Boston Slave Riot and Trial of Anthony Burns; The Abolitionist, 1833; Stearns's Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin; Jones's Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Cable's The Negro Question.

FINANCE. Financial History of the United States from 1774 to 1885, 3 vols.; Knox's History of the Issues of United States Paper Money; Baker's, The Subject of Money; Report of the Silver Commission of the United States, 1876; Dye's Coin Encyclopedia.

MILITARY AND NAVAL.-Scott's General Regulations for the U. S. Army, 1821; U. S. Army Regulations, 1881; Hamersly's Army and Navy Register, 1776-1887; Hamersly's Army Register, U. S., for one hundred years, 1779-1879; Official Army Registers of the United States, 1887, 1888; Scribner's Navy in the Civil War, 3 vols.; Reports Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army; Report of the Chief of Ordnance, U. S. A., 1886; Report of the Secretary of U. S. Navy, 2 vols., 1885 and 1886; Congressional Report on Ordnance and War Ships; War Series, Information from Abroad; Naval Resources, Information from Abroad; Chadwick's Training of Seamen in England and France; Soley's Foreign Systems of Naval Education; Iowa Adjutant General's Report, 8 vols.; Report of the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, 1866.

EDUCATION.-Kiddle & Schem's Cyclopædia of Education; Painter's History of Education; Low & Pulling's History of English Education; Rosenkranz's Philosophy of Education; Preyer's The Mind of the Child; Froebel's Education of Man; Lancaster Improvements in Education, 1807; Baldwin's Elementary Psychology and Education; White's European Schools of History and Politics; Laurie's Rise and Early Constitution of Universities; Adams's Study of History in American Colleges and Universities; Record of the Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Harvard University; Bowditch's History of Yale University; Hough's Historical and Statistical Sketch of the University of the State of New York; Alex