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Excerpt from Report and Collections on the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 8: For the Years 1877, 1878 and 1879 Duplicate books sold during the year have amounted to accrued interest, annual membership dues, net thus showing an addition of and making the total present amount Of this important fund, The section of land on the western borders of Texas. Set apart for this Fund by the late Hon. John Catlin, has not yet become marketable; and several years may elapse before its sale can be judiciously effected, owing to the liability of that exposed fron tier to raids of plundering parties of Mexicans and Indians. This thoughtful provision on the part of Mr. Catlin, who made. The first contribution to this Fund, in 1867, will eventually prove quite a creditable addition to this important object. His worthy relict, Mrs. Catlin, manifests an anxious solicitude to carry into effect this long cherished purpose of her departed husband. This Binding Fund is a matter of too much importance to the Society, its Library and its thousands of readers, to languish for want of interest. Ten years have elapsed since this Fund was commenced, and during all this time we had necessarily to draw upon the General Fund for the very scant amount of binding we have been forced to procure. Our twenty-five thousand unbound pamphlets, and large accumulations of unbound manuscripts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.