Annual report . f first importaiice. The researches of the Commissionreveal the fact that there is scarcely a county in the State in whichthis valuable form of historical material is not threatened withloss and destruction. Already fire has broken into the files ofevery one of the leading Detroit papers; and the reports receivedshow that the destruction of newspaper files is now going onthroughout Michigan. The Commission, therefore, feels it their duty to present the con-ditions in respect to the preservation of State archives, with theview of hastening the time when Michigan shall follov/ ot
Annual report . f first importaiice. The researches of the Commissionreveal the fact that there is scarcely a county in the State in whichthis valuable form of historical material is not threatened withloss and destruction. Already fire has broken into the files ofevery one of the leading Detroit papers; and the reports receivedshow that the destruction of newspaper files is now going onthroughout Michigan. The Commission, therefore, feels it their duty to present the con-ditions in respect to the preservation of State archives, with theview of hastening the time when Michigan shall follov/ other statesin constructing a building for its records. In this connection it may be mentioned that Ohio has recentlycompleted, a simple, dignified and commodious building to con-tain the material collected by the Ohio Arcluieological and IiistoricalSociety. PUBLICATIONS The thirty-ninth volume of the ^[ichigan Pioneer and HistoricalCollections is ncnv in press. In this volume the prehistoric period /. rr-:o <3. MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COrvDIISSION. 5 is represented hj papers on the ancient co})per-Diines of Lake Superior and on llie i^boilgl-.:;! KjiJaiai iii [lie ^If^giua^ Valley;the TveYoliuionarY period is treated in a j^ketclj of Patrick Sinclair,who removed the British post from Mackinaw Citj^ to the Island ;there are more than twenty biographical sketches, including ex-tended ones of Thomas AY. Palmer, James McMillan, Will Carleton,Ammi W. Wright, Father Pierz and Lady B^oeifren; isa critical study of the romances relating to pioneer life in ^Michiganwritten by Mrs. Kirkland, who has a place in the history of Ameri-can literature. The celebration of the Perry victory centennia] isrelated in an historical paper; and the addresses of Governor Ferrison that occasion as well as at the Peace Conference at Mackinac?are given. There is a paper on tlje Old Northwest Territory,another on Dr. Douglass Houghton; and several contributions onthe study of Michigan history in the
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