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32 VISCONSI~ HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

J. MCMURTRIE, P. I?. ROTIIERMEL, WILLIAM HART, W. D.
F.
WASHINGTON, JOHN FRANCIS, ALVAH BRADISH, JOHN
PHILLIPS, and A. HESLER. The subjects have not generally
been determined; those which have been, are-portrait of
JACKSON, JOHNSON; an historical piece, by JOHN FRANKEN-
by
STEIN ; and a copy oi his original portrait of the venerable
Seneca Indian chief, Gov. BLACKSNAKE, PHILLIPS. These
by
will prove honorable free-will offerings from artists of the highest
rank in our country, and will greatly add to the interest and
attraction of our Picture Gallery alrcady enriched by the skill
and genius of thc two SULLYS, CATLIN, CROPSEY, FAQNANI,
I?LAGQ, BROOKES, STEVENSON, EDWARDS, HEAD, CARPENTER,
STANLEY, JOHXSTON HARRISON.
and

We have hitherto been thwarted in our desires to carry com-
pletely into effect our system of foreign and domestic literary
exchanges. We have been receiving liberally of the gifts of
our sister institutions of the Union, and from a few abroad, and
had long promised to repay their generous contributions at an
early day. Our noble State, always liberal in the promotion of
literature and science, early and promptly commissioned our
Society to act as the medium of effecting an interchange of
literary commodities, appropriating fifty bound copies of every
State publication in furtherence of this object, and $100 annu-
ally to defray expenses of transmission, &c. Meanwhile we
had gathered together quite a collection of books, pamphlet0
and documents relating to our State and its various interests.
But it was only in the past year that we were able to obtain
.the means to defray the necessary expenses; and these obtained,
nearly forty boxes, and several parcels were transmitted to
Europe, and the several IEiskorical and other learned Societies
of this country-containing altogether 2,534 volumes, 3,500
pamphlets, and 1,025 maps, all relating to Wisconsin. Of the
books, 1,502 were transmitted to Mons. A. VATTEMARE, Paris,
for his system of International Literary Exchanges; 211 to Anti-
quarian and other learned Societies of Great Britain, to be