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Important documents regarding Great Lakes shipping activities are reviewed by (I-r) Dr. Rush Miller, dean of libraries and learning resources at Bowling Green State University; Mark Cowles, secretary of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit; J. Edward Schwartz, president of the society, and Robert Graham, archivist of Bowling Green's Institute for Great Lakes Research. The documents were part of two major collections donated to the institute by the historical society. MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT DONATES MAJOR COLLECTIONS TO GREAT LAKES RESEARCH CENTER bad Two major collections from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit have been donated to Bowling Green State University's Institute for Great Lakes Research, Dr. Rush Miller, dean of libraries and learning resources at Bowling Green announced June 7th. The acquisitions--the John E. Poole Collection and the Society's organizational records--add to the institute's impressive holdings of materials about the Great Lakes shipping industry. J. Edward Schwartz, president of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit, officially presented the Collections to Miller. Also representing the society were Mark Cowles, secretary; William J. Luke, treasurer; and Wayne Garrett, past president. Bowling Green representatives included Paul Yon, director of the Center for Archival Collections, and Robert Graham, archivist at the Institute for Great Lakes Research. The Poole Collection contains more than 60,000 cards of extensive research notes on Great Lakes shipping activities from the 1820's to the mid-1950's. The collection also includes the name and history of most vessels that worked the Great Lakes during that period. The archives of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit date from 1944 to the present and contain minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, speeches, and a complete series of the society's publications. 7 ~ EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceeding was published in the Bowling Green State University MONITOR. Included in this month's mailing is a guide to the Institute for Great Lakes Research. The extensive research material at the Institute is made available to all members of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit. 42-12-4