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America 2 1 7 We note the following contributions in the Annals of lozi'a for July: "William F. Coolbaugh ", by J. T. Remey; "Biographical Memoir of Charles Christopher Parry", with bibliography, by Charles A. White; " Iowa under Territorial Governments and the Removal of the Indians ", by Colonel Alonzo Abernethy ; and " Whence came the Pioneers of Iowa ", concluded, by F. I. Herriott. Mr. George W. Martin, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, has published in a small pamphlet. The Flag of Kansas, an ac- count of the visit of Zebulon M. Pike to the Pawnee village, on Septem- ber 29, 1806, and of his lowering the Spanish flag which he found there and raising the flag of the United States. In commemoration of the event a celebration was held in Republic City (Kansas) on September 26-29. The University of Colorado Studies for June (vol. III., no. 3) con- tains a useful contribution by Professor F. L. Paxson : " A Preliminary Bibliography of Colorado History ". The first publication of the Oklahoma Historical Society, 1905, lacks any specific title. It is an eighty-five-page pamphlet, devoted to the origin, work, and accessions of the society, and includes an article by Honorable Sidney Clarke on the " Opening of Oklahoma ". Bulletin 32 of the Bureau of American Ethnology is devoted to an account by Edgar L. Hewett of the Antiquities of the Jemes Plateau, New Mexico. It is the first of a series, planned by the Bureau, that will treat of the antiquities of the public domain. The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society for June contains, besides continuations, " The Genesis of the Oregon Railway System ", by Joseph Gaston ; " A Brief History of the Establishment and Location of the University of Oregon at Eugene ", by J. J. Walton ; and, as documentary material, " A Reminiscence of the Indian War, 1853," written in 1879 by James W. Nesmith. Among the recent manuscript accessions of the society should be noted a collection of about three hundred military papers bearing on the Indian War of 1855-1856. A bibliography of writings on the American Occupation of the Philip- pines, 1898-1903. has been compiled and issued by the Library of Con- gress. It is announced that the War Department is to publish a limited edition of the collection of documents known as the " Philippine insur- gent records ". These documents, which were captured, cover the period of the insurrection against Spain, as well as of that against the United States. Their translation and preparation for publication has been going on for the last three years, under the direction of Captain John R. M. Taylor, U. S. A. One of the most intimate studies of the Philippines, since the American occupation, is to be found in The Philippine Experiences of