DONOR GERMAN CHICKORY COMPANY, O'Neill: First Chickory manufactured in Nebraska, summer, 1893. C. H. GERE: Stone found on or near an old emigrant trail, inscribed "John B. Hill, Ill., May 18, 1850." W. H. WOODS: A very large and valuable collection of relics from Fort Calhoun, or Fort Atkinson, as the fort was more often called. The relics came out to this country with the first soldiers in 1820. The fort was abandoned in 1828. W. H. WOODS: Many clippings concerning the history of Washington County. FRANKLIN BALL: Piece of a meteor which fell in Otoe County. FRANKLIN BALL: Ore from a gold mine in Keya Paha County. FRANKLIN BALL: Petrified wood from Niobrara River. J. STERLING MORTON: Large picture of himself, requested by the librarian. R. W. FURNAS: Large picture of himself, requested by the librarian. R. W. FURNAS: Registers of names of Nebraska people at New Orleans Exposition, 1884-85. A. M. BAIRD: Register of Nebraska names at the Centennial Exposition, 1876, one volume. MANAGERS FOR NEBRASKA: Registers of Nebraska names at World's Fair, five volumes. STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: Fine silk flag, used in competition between counties for several years, the flag being carried home each year by the county having the largest attendance at the State meeting in December. H. F. COOKE: Records of the Beatrice Land Company, April 22, 1857-May 29, 1858. DONOR C. M. OSBORNE: Part I., "Lincoln Picturesque and De scriptive." ALEXANDER SCHLEGEL: List of the preemptions in Nebraska Territory from December 28, 1855, to October 28, 1856. Copied by the donor. S. P. BINGHAM: History of Lancaster County, Nebraska. ALICE C. HUNTER: Three University class-canes. T. H. LINE: File of the Marquette (Hamilton County) Independent. S. A. GARDINER: Files of the Schuyler Sun. W. H. ELLER: Nebraska in 1857, by J. M. Woolworth. OTHER BOOKS, PAPERS, AND RELICS. L. G. THAYER: Mexican coin. MISS L. G. GREEN: Colonial advertisement of Elixir Salutis. MISS L. G. GREEN: Minutes of the Ketocton Baptist Association, 1814. Minutes of the Columbia Baptist Association, 1824, 1832. MISS L. G. GREEN: Circular to the voters of Fairfax upon the candidacy of W. H. Harrison, 1840. MISS L. G. GREEN: Bullet from the field of Bull Run. C. W. KALEY: Mormon scrip, Spanish Fork co-operative currency. W. H. WOODS: A box of British farthings of ancient date. W.H.P. BUCHANAN: Autograph letter of Horace Greeley, 1870. C. E. BESSEY: File of the Lincoln one-cent daily, 1894. C. E. BESSEY: Copy of the new constitution of New York. W. H. WOODS: Box of army buttons and flints. CATHERINE BURT, Ga.: Confederate bill. S. C. BASSETT: Two letters; Platteville, Wis., 1837, and Lancaster, Wis., 1841. DONOR A COMMITTEE: Washington Centennial bronze medals. MISS L. G. GREEN: A war-time copy of the Charleston Tri-Weekly Courier. 3. A. GARDINER: Campaign "money" of 1892. D. D. FORSYTHE: Massachusetts colonial coin, 1788. GEO. F. PARKER: Two speeches of President Grover Cleveland: one before the New England Society of Brooklyn, Dec. 21, 1891, in his own handwriting; and one before the Commercial Club of Providence, June 27, 1891, in Mrs. Cleveland's handwriting. Handsomely bound at the expense of the president of the Historical Society, Hon. J. Sterling Morton, and obtained from Mr. Parker through his influence. S. A. GARDINER: Life of Franklin, Boston, 1815. W. D. REED: Facsimile of Vicksburg Daily Citizen, July 2, 1863, printed on wall-paper. S. A. GARDINER: American Revolution, 2 Vols., "written in the style of ancient history," Phila., 1793. J. P. Bовв: Poems of Pythagoras and Phocilis, printed "Argentorati apud Christianum Mylium," 1565. R. H. STRAUSSMANN: Confederate money. (Loan Collection). MISS STELLA B. KIRKER: Collection of stones and woods from Palestine. (Loan collection). MRS. ABBA DOTON CHAMBERLIN, Woodstock, Vt: A large. collection of valuable coins, bought by the Society from her at a very small price: It includes a Massachusetts Pine-Tree shilling, 1652; seven French Medallions; Gen. McClellan medal; Methodisin Commemoration Medal; Chicago Memorial Medal of the Grant reception, Nov. 12-17, 1879; Chicago Exposition Medal, 1873; World's Peace-Jubilee Souvenir, 1872; American Independence Medal, 1876; Political coins, 1830-1845; Several Continental coppers, 1785-1790, including the first issue of the DONOR government, 1787; a nearly complete set of old cop per cents, 1794-1857, two of each date; and many half-cents. Called "The Chamberlin Collection." J. S. KINGSLEY: Autographs of J. S. Dickenson, Gerrit Smith, C. Delano, Hamilton Fish, and others. S. A. GARDINER: Pew number from the old North church, Boston, the church made famous by the ride of Paul Revere. (Loaned.) W. D. REED: Silver knee and shoe buckle of revolutionary times. J. STERLING MORTON: A design [three and one-half feet by five feet] finely framed, showing the Declaration of Independence; the members of the administration of this Government at two important anniversaries of the Union, July 4, 1876, and October 21, 1892, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America; showing also a fac simile engraving of the painting by Trumbull, in the National Capitol, representing the signing of the Declaration of Independence. J. STERLING MORTON: A framed design showing the seals of the government and its various departments. One of the pikes made at the order of John Brown in Pennsylvania and used at Harper's Ferry. J. L. HOYT: Demonologia Sacra, Edinburgh, 1735. W. H. WOODS: Spanish coin of 1798, found at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. F. N. JAYNES: List of emigrants to America, 1600-1700. C. W. BUTTERFIELD, South Omaha: An uncirculated copy of a book on Punctuation by C. W. Butterfield. ELWOOD MEAD, State Engineer of Wyoming: A photograph of Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in a ghost dance, summer of 1894, near Fort Washakie, Wyo. Taken by Mr. Mead, and used in the preceding number of the Quarterly as a frontispiece. |