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FOURTlI .4NNUAL REPOBT. 3 8

transmitted through the medium of the Smithsonian Institution;
and 821 to Historical and other Societics in the Unitcd States.
It may be added, that about two-thirds of the volunics are State
Laws, Journals and Documents of Wisconsin; and the remain-
ing third is made up of the Society's two volumes of Collections,
Documentary History of Wisconsin, State Agricultural Soci-
ety's Transactions, History of Rock County, Hunt's Wisconsin
Gazetteer, Milwaukee and Madison Directories; and the pam-
phlets relative to Milwaukee, Watertown, Pond du Lac county,
Winnebago county, Madison, La Crosse, Racine, Prairie du
Chien, Geological Survey, our Colleges, Railroads, State Insti-
tutions, &c. We have reason to belicve, that this is much the
largest collection ever distributed by any similar society in the
Union, and we may confidently cxpect librral returns both to
the State Library, acd that of our IIistorical Society.
This mass of information about Wisconsin, its history, pro-
gress and resourccs, cannot but exert n, favorable influence upon
the reputation of our State and Society both in our own country
and in Europe. It is gratifying to add, that we have recently
been appraised by M. VATTEMARE of thc receipt of the several
boxes sent him, and of his transmission of the first fruits from
his side of the Atlantic of this pleasant international literary
intercourse; and which, we hope, may reach our State in safety.

The Thi~d Annual Report and Collections of the Society,
making a volume of 556 pages-a portion of the edition being
printed on good paper, and neatly bound in muslin-has recently
been issued. So far at least. as its typographical appearance is
concerned, it is alike creditable to the Stitte and the Society.
The eagerness with which our volumes are sought by kindred
societies, and by persons engaged in preparing works for the
press on the history, geography and statistics of the West in
general, and Wisconsin in particular, affords sufficient proof of
their intrinsic worth and usefulness. Their real worth to our
State, can never be estimated by mere dollars and cents.
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