An interesting account of a business career has recently come into the possession of Baker Library. The Autobiography of Caspar Thomas Hopkins, a California pioneer, has been obtained by copying the original in the possession of one of his daughters, Mrs. Frank Hinckley. This story of his life was written in 1889, not for the public but for the edification of his daughters. It has therefore the special value of being a very frank record of his experiences and his achievements. The whole book is most interesting but here we are considering only his work in insurance. His youth will be touched on to give an idea of his early training.

During the month of June the Society will send to its members Business and Capitalism by Professor N. S. B. Gras.

The month of May, just passed, marked the hundredth anniversary of the oldest chartered bank in the State of Wisconsin. The Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee is the result of the merging in 1930 of two pioneer institutions, the National Exchange Bank which was first chartered by Wisconsin in 1855 and the Marine National Bank, chartered under the National Banking Act in 1900, under the free banking act of Wisconsin in 1853, and originally chartered by the legislature of Wisconsin Territory as the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. in 1839.