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FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 23

contain a large amount of most precious historic matter no
where else to be found.
l,Tnhound Newspaper Files.
The following unbound newspaper files have been received
during the year past: Burr Oak, complete, Oct. 1853, to Dec.
1854, from Hon. R. B. WENTWORTH; Home Mission Record,
1853-'56, from Rev. Dr. B. M. HILL; Fountain City Daily
Herald, complete, March to September, 1856, from ROYAL
BUCK; several files, incomplete, of Western Wisconsin papers,
and othere, preserved by the late Hon. B. C. EASTMAN, from
Dr. G. W. EASTMAN; and nearly complete filesof the National
Xra, and the hdependent, from Dr. HENRY BOND. To these
should be added the regularly received newspapers and period-
icals-a list of which will be found appended to this report.-
So far as they are sufficiently complete, these several files should
be arranged and bound, both for their better preservation, and
to render them more accessible and useful.
Newspaper Files Promised and Desired.
Of the several valuable and desirable files previously'announ-
ced as promised, only a single volume, and that from Gen.
ELLIS, has yet been received. It is to be hopecl that they will
be forthcoming. Again would we plead for newspaper files and
periodicals-so precious a source of historical investigation.-
At no other point in the State could they be so useful; and
where so appropriate a repository for all such files as the State
Historical Society ? To our three hundred and forty bound files
of papers, we point with pride and pleasure, as indicative of
the result, in this single direction, of four years' efforts. They
prove how much may be accomplisl~ed by associated c?Eort, and
the promptings of patriotism, even in a new State, in making
such a collection-always diilicult to secure, as so few preserve
newspaper files. Let past success encourage to rene~ved efforts;
and let the liberality of donors to this department, prompt those
who yet possess other files ainong us, to add them to our
collection.