Peter Parkinson, Jr.,” Fayette, La Fayette Co.-Came to Wisconsin in 1828; served in the Black Hawk War, 1832; member of assembly in 1854.-Isaac Lees, Darlington, artist.

PORTRAITS IN CRAYON, INDIA INK, ETC.

James R. Doolittle, Rucine.--"Born on the western slope of the Green Mountains, in Washington county, New York, January 3, 1815. At four years of age he emigrated with his father's family to western New York, where he was educated. He graduated from Geneva college in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in 1837, being married the same year. He was district attorney of Wyoming county from 1845 to 1849. In 1851 he removed with his family to Racine, Wis. He was elected circuit judge in 1852, and resigned in March, 1856. In 1857 he was elected to the United States senate, and re-elected in 1863. He served during twelve years, the most important twelve years in our national history, after the Revolutionary war, viz: from 1857 to 1869. His history during that period is well known, as it is a part of the history of the country."-QuadriCentennial Memorial Volume. Judge Doolittle has, since 1869, been at the head of a Chicago law firm.-Mrs. Sara D. Pease, artist.

Mrs. James R. Doolittle.-Wife of foregoing. Mary Lovina Doolittle was born August 28, 1816, the daughter of Jonas and Lovina Cutting; married Mr. Doolittle July 27, 1837, at the time he entered upon his career at the bar; died September 12, 1879. Judg› Doolittle writes us concerning his wife: "Her mother was Lovina Fargo, whose mother was a ChapAll of her ancestors were of strong and vigorous New England stock. She was my best companion, adviser, and helpmeet, during my public career both in war and peace."-Mrs. Sara D. Pease, artist.

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David Giddings, Fond du Lac.-Born in Ipswich, Mass., July 24, 1808. Came to Wisconsin, May, 1835; was engaged in the survey of public lands until 1842; elected to the legislature in 1842; was probate judge of Sheboygan and Manitowo: counties, two years; member of the first onstitutional convention, 1846. He has witnessed the whole growth of the state and is now, at the age of 85 years, a hale and hearty man.

Samuel Harriman, Hot Springs, Ark. Born in Orland, Hancock Co.. Maine, October 19, 1826. Went to California in 1849, via Cape Horn. Settled in St. Croix county, Wis., in 1856. Enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirtieth Wisconsin volunteer infantry, June 10, 1862; elected captain on the organization of the company; commissioned colonel of the Thirty-seventh regiment in March, 1864, serving with great bravery at Petersburg and on other battle fields; brevetted brigadier-general April 2, 1865, and mustered out at the close of the war. Moved to Hot Springs, Ark., December, 1891.

Leonard Martin, Chamberlin, Waukesha Co. - A Waukesha pioneer. Born in North Ferrisburgh, Vt., April 16, 1814; died at Chamberlin, Wis., March 20, 1891.-Presented by his son, S. Munson Martin.

George Howard Paul, Milwaukee.-Born at Danville, Vt., March 14, 1826; died at Kansas City, May 18, 1890. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont (1847) and of Harvard college law school (1848), and appointed postmaster of Burlington, Vt., in 1849. In 1851 he arrived at Kenosha, Wis., being postmaster there from 1853 to 1861, and mayor in 1856-57. In 1861 he removed to Milwaukee, of which city he at once became a prominent citizen, being superintendent of schools (1870-71) and holding many other local offices at various times. His state positions were: member of the board of railway commissioners during the Potter law excitement (1874-76); member, and for the most part president, of the board of state university regents (1874-89), and state senator (187881). He was for many years editor of the Milwaukee News, under President Cleveland served as postmaster of Milwaukee, and for a long period was manager of the Milwaukee Cement Company. He removed to Kansas City, where he had business interests, in 1889. Mr. Paul's reputation in Wisconsin chiefly rested on his active interest in educational affairs. Presented by his widow, Mrs. Pamela S. Paul.

MISCELLANEOUS PICTURES.

Cabinet (and larger) photographs of - Rev. James Britton, Madison; Henry Cowles, early Wisconsin printer; Capt. Moullon de Forest; Dr. Samuel A. Green, Boston (1892); John F. Madison; Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, early Dominican miss onary to Wisconsin, 1830; family of George H. Paul, Milwaukee; William T. Sterling, Mt. Sterling; O. H. Waldo, Milwaukee; Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Winslow, Boston (1892); State University law class, and engineers' class, 1881; Wisconsin senate, 1879; officers of Forty-third Wisconsin volunteer infantry, 1861-65.

Small card photographs of Songish squaw; Ceda Kanim, chief of Clyoquot Indians, and his son Benjamin; Sioux chief, Shaubena; Challain, a Victoria Island Indian; two unnamed Indians.

Unclassified Pencil sketch (framed) of Main street, Southport (Kenosha), in November, 1842, by S. T. Brande (from memory, in 1880); two lithographs of Col. William Polk, signer of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; tintype of Daniel G. Stinson, a King's Mountain hero; eleven large photographs of McDougall whaleback industry, Superior, two large photographs of ancestral residence of Draper family, Roxbury, Mass.; photograph of a deed dating the Independence of North Carolina from the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775; photographs of Washburn observatory (Madison), Paul residence (Milwaukee), Milwaukee cement works and cement quarry, Wisconsin state building (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893), skull of a mound builder, specimens from mound at Lake Koshkonong, and mounted Cheyennes; photograph of a bullet-pierced tobacco box of Derrick Van Veghten, major of Fourteenth New York state militia, who was killed at battle of Oriskany, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1777.

Givers of the above miscellaneous pictures.-S. T. Brande, Kenosha; Ephraim D. Darwin, Madison; Draper estate; Charles E. Estabrook, Mi waukee; George W. Graham, Charlotte, N. C.; Samuel A. Green, Boston; Alexander McDougall, Superior; Sister Mary Edmund, Madison; Frank W. Oakley, Madison; Elward J. Paul, Milwaukee; William T. Sterling, Mt. Sterling; Herbert B. Tanner, South Kankauna; William C. Winslow, Boston.

THE MUSEUM.

The funds of the Society are too meagre even for the needs of the library, which must needs continue to command the greater part of its energies, and upon which, coupled with its historical investigations, the fame of the institution chiefly rests. Nevertheless, it is important that the museum be not lost sight of, that the opportunities which it offers for the education of the people be not neglected. A distinct Museum Fund yielding an income of at least $500 per annum would enable the Society slowly to build up a highly creditable collection in the fields of ethnology, archæology, and history. We have now a Binding Fund which is of great practical value in our work; the Antiquarian Fund should speedily be increased to an income-producing basis, and then every energy be bent toward securing a competent Museum Fund, the lack of which is a constant source of regret.

The committee has recently intrenched upon the General Fund to the extent of $800, for the purchase from William J. Seever, of St. Louis, of a remarkable collection of 254 pieces of Missouri and Arkansas prehistoric pottery. The opportunity to purchase this collection was one not often offered, and the committee thought proper to take advantage of it, as the exhibit, when properly cased, cannot fail to attract marked attention in the museum, and prove an important addition to our collections in the field. of western archæology. A special Museum Fund would have been drawn upon for this important purchase had there been such. Vice-President Butler, as chairman of the standing committee on prehistoric antiquities, will offer a report descriptive of this pottery collection, at the present meeting.

The accessions to the museum during the fiscal year have been as follows:

ARCHEOLOGY.

Horace Beach, Prairie du Chien.-Cast of foot-print found in a rock near Colorado Springs, Colo.

John Bille, Hillside.-Three flint implements from the island of Moen, Denmark.

William J. Seever, St Louis.-Collection of 254 specimens of prehistoric pottery from southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas, in the valley of the St. Francis river. Purchased for $800.

F. D. Winkley, Madison.-Indian stone implement, found in Barrington, N. H., about 1865.

HISTORY.

Mrs. Anna M. Doe, Janesville. -Milwaukee "Daily Wisconsin" carrier's address for 1851, printed on satin.

Stephen Jex, Skokomish, Washington.-Set of chessmen; also, comb made a from buffalo horn, all made by donor, formerly o' Co. A, 23d Wisconsin volunteer infantry, while confined in a confederate prison, at Tyler, Texas, April, 1864, to May, 1865.

Ernest Messerschmidt, Madison.-Pair of swamp horse shoes brought to Wisconsin about 1860, from Massachusetts, by Hayward P. Hall, late owne of Orchard Farm in Burke, Dane county, Wisconsin. They were first used in 1873 on a swamp in said township, by the donor.

Peter M. Myers, Milwaukee.-Package of 93 pictured envelopes, issued during the war of Secession, 1861-65.

Eugene A. Notz, Milwaukee.-Two minie balls picked up on the battlefield of Gettysburg.

Mr. Paine. - Reed used in weaving cloth by Mrs. J. A. Paine, an early Wisconsin settler.

Martin Thoe.-Norwegian carpenter's plane, supposed to be about 200 years old.

CURIOS.

Mrs. Emma Austin, Brodhead.-Part of German Lutheran church organ destroyed by the tornado at Pomeroy, Iowa, July 6, 1893; also, part of the M. E. church organ destroyed at the same time.

Arthur L. Jones, Dodgeville.-Specimen of lead ore from mine near Ridgeway, Wisconsin.

John Mooney, Westport.-Specimen of copper found on his farm in the town of Westport, Dane county.

George Purvis, Wyocena.-Natural sandstone formation, resembling human foot-print, found on bluff eight miles northwest of La Crosse. F. F. Wood, Madison.—Birch-bark canoe made byChippewa Indians at Grand Marais, head of Lake Superior. (Left on deposit.)

Coins-From John Johnston, Milwaukee; C. G. Lindholm, Prairie du Chien; and George W. Stoner, Colorado.

Medals-From Henry E. Biel, Milwaukee; William H. Hobbs, Madison; and Edward G. Porter, Lexington, Mass.

EXHIBIT AT WORLD'S FAIR.

At the request of the Wisconsin State Board of Managers, the Society made a modest exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, the cost of which ($252.42) was defrayed by said board. Following was the description thereof, in the official state catalogue:

IN THE WISCONSIN STATE BUILDING.

A collection of about 500 books by Wisconsin authors. The full list is published in an accompanying pamphlet, for free distribution.

Accompanying these books, and as a part of the exhibit, is a comprehensive "Bibliography of Wisconsin authors; being a list of books and other publications, written by Wisconsin authors, in the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin." This book, the first state bibliography ever issued, comprises vii + 263 pp., and was prepared under the direction of Reuben Gold Thwaites and Isaac Samuel Bradley, by Emma Alethea Hawley.

In the State building, the Society also exhibits an oil portrait of Columbus, copied by the famous Spanish artist, M. Hernandez, from the Yanez original in the National Library at Madrid.

It also exhibits a crayon portrait of the Duke of Veragua, enlarged from a recent photograph of this direct descendant of Columbus.

IN THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.

An old French Canadian bateau; exhibiting the style of naval architecture used by early fur-traders on the rivers and lakes of Wisconsin from about 1780 to 1850. Occasional specimens of this style of boat may still be seen in use by log-drivers on northern Wisconsin lumbering streams.

IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL BUILDING.

Only selections from the Society's museum were sent to the Exposition, and those were such as are unique to Wisconsin.

The display of prehistoric Wisconsin copper implements, freshly mounted on tablets of whitewood, painted robin's-egg blue, presents a fine appearance. This collection won for the Society world-wide fame at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, and was awarded a bronze medal as being, at that time, the largest and best exhibit of the kind.