20 Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters. 



ACCESSIONS DURING BIENNIAL PERIOD ENDING APRIL 3, '06— 



Paper volumes 43 — 



Bound volumes 74 



Total 117 



Pamphlets 321 



NOW IN LIBRARY— 



Number of volumes 244 



Number of pamphlets 416 



CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED. 

 1. Files of newspapers, magazines, catalogues, etc., especially 

 those published in the Northwest. 



2. Old letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals and biographies of 

 old settlers and others. 



3. Data concerning the naming of cities, towns, townships, 



lakes and rivers of the Northwest. 



4. Facts of Indian history, manners, customs, stories or leg- 

 ends. 



5. Minutes of religious bodies, conventions, conferences, synods, 

 etc. 



6 Catalogues of Iowa, Dakota and Nebraska educational insti- 

 tutions. 



7. Publications of scientific and of historical societies. 



8. Books, papers, pamphlets or other publications of Sioux City 



authors. 



9. Old directories of Sioux City. 



10. Reports of Sioux City officials. 



11. Journals of the General Assemblies of Iowa. 



12. Statute laws of Iowa. 



13. Code of Iowa. 



14. Reports of the Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa. 



15. In brief anything that relates to the history of Iowa or of the 

 West, the preservation of which will have value in the future. 



To complete files already begun the following are solicited: 



1. U. S. Geological Survey for years 1885-6, 1887,8 and 1889-90, 

 Part I. 



2. Iowa Geological Survey, vols. 5, 7, 8 and 9. 



3. U. S. Ethnological Reports. 



4. Interstate Commerce Commission Reports, vols. 1-14. 



5. Civil Service Commission Reports, vols. 1-19. 



6. Proceedings of U. S. National Museum, vols. 1-19. 



7. Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Science, vols. 1-7. 



8. Transactions of Wisconsin Academy of Science, vols. 1-11. 



9. Proceedings of Iowa Academy of Science, vol. 1. 



10. Annals of Iowa, vols. 1-5, and vol. 6. Nos. 1-4. 



11. Iowa Executive Documents prior to 1904. 



Sioux City, Iowa, April, 1906. 



F. H. GARVBR, 



Librarian. 



