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righted material to Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers of American History and Its Geographic Conditions by Ellen Churchill Semple; to Little, Brown and Company, publishers of The California and Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman; to Lois Kimball Matthews, author of The Erie Canal and the Settlement of the West; to Yale University Press, publishers of A Journey to Ohio in 1810, by Margaret Dwight; to Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers of The Making of the Ohio Valley States, by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and Audubon and His Journals, by Maria R. Audubon; to Princeton University Press, publishers of The New Purchase, by Robert Carlton; to G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers of The Winning of the West, by Theodore Roosevelt.

John T. Faris.

Philadelphia, 1920.