E. B. Greene, University of Illinois...

Jessie Palmer Weber

Charles H. Rammelkamp.

...Urbana

.Springfield

..Jacksonville

Honorary Vice Presidents,

The Presidents of Local Historical Societies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. List of Officers of the Illinois State Historical

Society

2. Frank E. Stevens. Alexander Pope Field....

3. Special meeting of the Illinois State Historical

Society, April 14, 1911.....

4. Annual meeting of the Illinois State Historical

Society, Evanston-Chicago, May 17-20, 1911

5. J. F. Snyder. Burial and Resurrection of Black

Hawk

Death of the Last Survivor of the Black Hawk

War

6. Church Records of Salt Creek Circuit, 1829-

1833. Description of the original record book

Edited by Milo Custer....

3

7

38

45

47

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58

7. J. W. Templeton. Life and Services of Gen.

Thomas J. Henderson

67

8. William R. Sandham. Hon. James H. Miller.

An appreciation .

82

9. Letter from A. D. Rodenberg communicating a

letter from Col. Nathaniel Niles..

92

10. An Illinois Poet, Elijah Whittier Blaisdell.

Poem. Rock River. Communicated by J. W.

Clinton

95

11. An Illinois Centenarian. Mrs. Dicy Dunlap

Celebrates Her One Hundredth Birthday An-

niversary

....

98

12. Celebration of the Seventieth Anniversary of

the Organization of Woodford County...... 101

13. Book Reviews..

E. J. James. Origin of the Land Grant Act

of 1862 (the so-called Morrill Act), and

Some Account of its Author, Jonathan B.

Turner. University of Illinois Studies, Vol.

IV, No. 1, 1910....

F. W. Scott. Newspapers and Periodicals of
Illinois, 1814-1879. Illinois Historical Col-
lections No. VI. Published by the Illinois
State Historical Library

...

The Geology of Illinois. Bulletin No. 16 of

the Illinois State Geological Survey.

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107

109

119

112

Bennett H. Young. Prehistoric Men of Ken-

tucky. Filson Club Publications No. 25.... 113

14. Editorial Notes

117

Editorial. To Our Readers...

119

Historical Matters before General Assembly. 120

The Archaeological Puzzle Again..

122