RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. A new theory regarding the origin of the palatine light. A paper, by Welcome A. Greene, read before the Association February 1, 1886.

In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. v, pp. 253-258.

RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. The old schools of Providence. A paper read before the Association by Elisha Dyer.

In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. v, pp. 220-240.

RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. The old taverns of Providence. Reminiscences of some of the taverns of "the old town of Providence" and its immediate vicinity. A paper read before the Association, October 8, 1883, by Elisha Dyer, president.

In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. V, pp. 129-150. Providence, 1886. RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Some rem iniscences, etc. Read before the Association, March 1, 1886, by a member. [Poem.]

In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. v, pp. 43–53.

RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Stukeley Westcote. A paper read before the Association, April 5, 1886, by J. Russell Bullock.

In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. V, pp. 1-26. Providence, 1886. RHODE ISLAND VETERAN CITIZENS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. The great secret. A historical inquiry into the causes of the contention for the possession of the Narragansett country by the colonies of New England. [Read before the Association, May 9, 1887, by I. N. Arnold.] In Narragansett Historical Register. Vol. VI, pp. 1-24. Providence, 1888.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

268. HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON.

Charleston, S. C.

HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON.

Poem. By the Rev. Charles S. Vedder, D. D. Read at the celebration by the Huguenot Society of Charleston, S. C., April 14, 1890, of the promulgation of the edict of Nantes, 1598. Charleston, 1890.

12mo, pp. 6.

269. NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON.

Charleston, S. C.

NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON. Rules of the Society, founded January 6, 1819. [Charleston], 1820.

12mo, pp. 12.

Same. Revised. Charleston, 1830. 8vo, pp. 25. Contains list of officers and members.

270. SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Charleston, S. C.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Documents connected with the history of South Carolina. Edited by Plowden Charles Jennet Weston. London, 1856.

4to. pp. 227.

Published under the auspices of the Society.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Collections. Vols. I-IV. Charleston, S. C., 1857-1887.

8vo. Four volumes.

CONTENTS.

Vol. 1. Address pronounced at the inauguration of the South Carolina Histor ical Society, June 28, 1855, by F. A. Porcher; A narrative of the capture of Henry Laurens, of his confinement in the Tower of London, etc., 1780, 1781, 1782; Appendix, containing documents, letters, etc., relating to Mr. Laurens's imprisonment in the Tower; List and abstract of papers in the state paper office, London, relating to South Carolina. 1857. pp. vi (1), 307.

Vol. 11. Oration delivered on the third anniversary of the South Carolina Historical Society, May 27, 1858, by James Louis Petigru, Journal of the council of safety for the province of South Carolina, 1775; The French Protestants of Abbeyville district, South Carolina; Oration delivered on the first anniversary of the South Carolina Historical Society, June 28, 1856, by J. Barrett Cohen; List and abstract of papers in the state paper office, London, relating to South Carolina, continued from Vol. 1; Vocabulary of the Catawba language, with some remarks on its grammar, construction, and pronunciation, by Oscar M. Lieber. 1858. pp. 342. Vol. III. Oration, May 19, 1859, by W. H. Trescott, Journal of second council of safety, November, 1775; List and abstract of papers in the state paper office, Lotdon, 1859. pp. 343.

Vol. IV. Report of the committee appointed by the general assembly of South Carolina in 1740, on the St. Augustine expedition under General Oglethorpe, pp. 178 Address before the Society on their twenty-first anniversary, May 19, 1876, by W. J. Rivers, pp. 28 (1); Address on twenty second anniversary, May 25, 1877, by J. J. Pringle Smith, 1879, pp. 35, vii; Memoir of Christopher Gadsden, by F. A. Porcher, pp. 11; Education in South Carolina prior to and during the Revolution by E. McCrady, jr., 1883, pp. 54.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Oration delivered on the third anniversary of the Society, May 27, 1858, by James Louis Petigru. Charleston, 1858.

8vo, pp. 16.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Vocabulary of the Catawba language, with some remarks on its grammar, construction, and pronunciation. By Oscar M. Lieber, State geologist of South Carolina. From Collections of the Society, Vol. II. Charleston, 1858.

8vo, pp. 18.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Oration delivered on the fifth anniversary of the Society, May 23, 1860, by Thomas M. Hauckel. Charleston, 1860.

8vo, pp. 34.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

their twenty-first anniversary, May Charleston, 1876.

8vo, pp. 28 (1).

Address before the Society on 19, 1876, by William J. Rives.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Address before the Society on their twenty-second anniversary, May 25, 1877, by J. J. P. Smith. Charleston, 1877.

8vo, pp. 35.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Memoir of Gen. Christopher Gadsden. Read before the Society, by F. A. Porcher. Published by authority of the Society. Charleston, 1878.

8vo, pp. 11.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Education in South Carolina prior to and during the Revolution. Paper read before the Society August 6, 1883, by Edward McCrady, jr. Charleston, S. C., 1883. 8vo, pp. 54.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Local government and free schools in South Carolina. First part read before the Society, December 15, 1882. By B. James Ramage. Baltimore, 1883.

8vo, pp. 40.

Johns Hopkins University Studies, No. 12.

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Report of the committee of the South Carolina Historical Society in the matter of procuring transcripts of the colonial records of this State from the London record offices, October 3, 1891. Charleston, 1891.

8vo. pp. 14.

TENNESSEE.

271. CONFEDERATE RELIEF AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.

Memphis, Tenn.

CONFEDERATE RELIEF AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Fight between the batteries and gunboats at Fort Donelson. By H. L. Bedford.

In Southern Historical Society Papers. Vol. XIII, pp. 165–173.

272. EAST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

Knoxville, Tenn.

EAST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Address before the Society at its first annual meeting, May 5, 1834, by J. G. M. Ramsey. Knoxville, 1834.

12mo, pp. 10.

273. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE.

Nashville, Tenn.

Grand concert for the benefit of

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE.

the Society, November 19, 1858. Programme.

Broadside.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE.

An oration on the life, character,

and public services of Felix Grundy, by John M. Bright. Delivered at request of the Society, May 3, 1859. Nashville, 1859.

8vo, pp. 27 (4).

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE. The University of the South. An address delivered at Beersheba Springs, Tenn., August 19 and 22, 1859, and also, by invitation of the Historical Society of Tennessee, at the capitol, Nashville, September 8, 1859. By William Giles Dix. Nashville, 1859.

8vo, pp. 32.

274. TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Nashville, Tenn.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The charter and by-laws. Revised

October, 1878. With a list of members.

8vo, pp. 24.

II. Doc. 291-71

Nashville, 1880.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Papers. Nashville, 1884.

8vo, pp. 32. Illustrated.

Contents: History of the South Carolina cession and the northern boundary of Tennessee, by W. R. Garrett.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

ville, 1886.

8vo.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Proceedings, December 8, 1885. Nash

Ancient society in Tennessee; the

mound builders were Indians. A paper read before the Tennessee Historical Society at Nashville, December 19, 1887. [New York, 1888.] 4to, pp. (27). Plans.

From the Magazine of American History, 1888, pp. xix, 374–400.

TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The antiquities of Tennessee and the adjacent States and the state of aboriginal society in the scale of civilization represented by them. A series of historical and ethnological studies. By Gates P. Thruston. Illustrated. Cincinnati, 1890.

8vo, pp. xv, 369.

TEXAS.

275. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GALVESTON.

Galveston, Tex.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GALVESTON. Series No. 1. Reminiscences of the Texas Republic. Annual address, December 15, 1875. By Ashbel Smith. Galveston, 1876.

8vo, pp. 82.

VERMONT.

276. BATTLE MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.

Bennington, Vt.

BATTLE MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. Statement. Bennington, [1878].

8vo, pp. 8.

277. BENNINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Bennington, Vt.

BENNINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. List of officers, a statement of its aims and objects, and its constitution. Bennington, 1876. 8vo, pp. 16.

BENNINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The Bennington battle monument and centennial celebration. A statement of the Bennington Historical Society in relation to these and kindred objects. Added, an account

of the battle of Bennington, by H. Hall. Milford, Mass., 1877. 8vo, pp. 20.

BENNINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Report of the advisory committee of the Society, recommending a Bennington battle monument, July 9, 1885. 8vo, pp. 8.

278. MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

Middlebury, Vt.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. History of the town of Middlebury, Vt., written at the request of the Historical Society of Middlebury, by Samuel Swift. Middlebury, 1859.

8vo, pp. 444. Portrait.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. History of Salisbury, Vt. By John M. Weeks. Middlebury, 1861.

8vo, pp. xii, 9-362. Portraits. Woodcut.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. History of the town of Shoreham, Vt., by J. F. Goodhue. With a statistical and historical account of the county of Addison, by S. Swift. Published by the town. Middlebury, 1861.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Statistical and historical account of the county of Addison, Vt. Written at the request of the Society. By Samuel Swift. Middlebury, 1859.

8vo, pp. 132.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

History of the town of Cornwall, Vt.

By Lyman Matthews. Middlebury, 1862.

8vo, pp. 356. Portraits.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The marble border of western New England. Its geology and marble development in the present century. Papers and proceedings of the Society, Vol. 1, part 2. Middlebury, 1885. 8vo, pp. 68. Map.

MIDDLEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Forefathers' day. Two hundred and sixty-sixth anniversary. At Middlebury, Vt., December 21, 1886. [Middlebury, 1886.]

8vo. pp. 6. No title-page.

The Register office, Middlebury, Vt.

279. ORLEANS COUNTY NATURAL AND CIVIL HISTORY SOCIETY. ORLEANS COUNTY NATURAL AND CIVIL HISTORY SOCIETY. Constitution and by-laws. West Charleston, 1854.

12mo, pp. 12.

ORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. History of the Missisco Valley. By S. Sumner. With an introductory notice of Orleans County, by S. R. Hall. Published under the auspices of the Society. Irasburg: A. A. Earle. 1860.

8vo, pp. 76.

280. RUTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Castleton, Vt.

RUTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. An account of the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1881, at Mason's Point, Lake Bomoseen, under the auspices of the citizens of Rutland County and the Rutland County Historical Society, conjointly; including the report of the ceremony of christening the island of Neshobe. Compiled by J. M. Currier. [Castleton, Vt., 1881.]

8vo, pp. 49.

RUTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Lake Bomoseen; its early history, conveyances, fishing, hunting, resorts, islands, their names. Compiled by G. D. Spencer. Poultney, 1882.

8vo, pp. 28.

"The report of what purported to be the acts and doings of the Rutland County Historical Society at its celebration on Lake Bomoseen in 1881, and the pretended naming of the island, demands the appearing of this pamphlet, to let posterity know the Historical Society, as a body, were not responsible for the name of that day; it was furnished by an individual."