NEWS AND COMMENT
The Mississippi Valley Historical Association held its eighteenth annual meeting in Detroit, Michigan, April 30th to May 2nd, 1925. Mr. T. C . Elliott of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Historical Society was able to attend the meetings. The Detroit Historical Society, the Detroit Public Library, the University of Michigan and the College of the City of Detroit were hosts to the association. The program included a visit to the museum of Mr. Henry Ford at Dearborn.
The North Dakota State Historical Society has recently occupied its new fire-proof building on the State Capitol grounds at Bismark.
The Wisconsin Museums' Conference was recently organized at the Public Museum in Milwaukee by representatives of thirty state, county and municipal museums in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. Laurence V. Coleman, secretary of the American Association of Museums, New York and Professor Fay Cooper-Cole of the department of anthropology of the University of Chicago delivered the principal addresses.
The bequest of Delavan Smith, who died in 1922 has recently been turned over to the State Historical Society of Indiana. This gift includes a collection of some 10,000 volumes of books and the sum of $150,000 for the erection of a library building for the society.
Mr. Charles F. Carr, of New London, Wisconsin, has bequeathed to the public museum of New London his fine natural history and historical library of 2000 volumes of books and a money bequest of probably $15,000 or more.
