OF THE

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

OF WISCONSIN

EDITED BY

LYMAN COPELAND DRAPER, LL. D.

SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY

VOL. IX

Being a page-for-page Reprint of the Original Issue of 1882

F576 W811 v.q

Published by Authority of Chapter 96, Laws of 1903

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Contents and Illustrations

PORTRAIT OF CADWALLADER C. WASHBURN
PREFACE TO REPRINT EDITION. R. G. Thwaites

Vol. IX

(Edited by Lyman Copeland Draper)

PAGE

Frontispiece

TWENTX-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JAN-

UARY 6, 1880

13

TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JAN-

UARY 3, 1881

21

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, JAN-

UARY 3, 1882

EMBLEMATIC MOUNDS IN WISCONSIN. Stephen D. Peet

ILLUSTRATIONS: Sketches of mounds, 46-48, 50-52, 54, 55, 57-59, 61,

EARLY HISTORIC RELICS OF THE NORTHWEST. James Davie Butler .

ARTICLES: Recent accessions of historic copper, 97; Aztalan,

the ancient city, 99; Brick baked in situ, 103; The first page

of Wisconsin history, 105; Discovery of the Mississippi, 108;

Jolliet's first map, 113; French footprints in Northwestern

Wisconsin, 117; Roma rediviva in Rock County, 120; Span-

ish silver in early Wisconsin, 121; The Hispano-Wisconsin

medal, 124; A holograph deed of 1662, 126:

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