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sible archives of Protestant denominations, of their missionary societies, and in the 

 libraries of their theological seminaries, colleges, and historical societies. The book 

 lists, in alphabetical order by States and cities, the voluminous but scattered ma- 

 terials thus found. An elaborate index brings the material conveniently together. 



No. 148. PARKER, D. W. Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives relating to 

 the Territories of the United States. Octavo, 476 pages. Published 

 1911. Price $3.00. 



Two-thirds of the States have been Territories. Therefore, the materials for 

 their earlier history are in large degree to be found in one or another of the gov- 

 ernmental archives in Washington. Much effort is expended by workers in these 

 States in the endeavor to find materials of this class. The difficulties are made very 

 great by the extraordinarily dispersed condition of the records of the government, 

 which has not one archive, but at least a hundred ; and the distribution of papers 

 among them is often casual or arbitrary, and in all cases it is hard to follow. The 

 data are classified first by territories, and chronologically under each territory. A 

 vast amount of material, most of which was hitherto entirely unknown to inves- 

 tigators, is made available. The number of items in the Calendar is nearly ten 

 thousand. 



No. 172. PARKER, D. W. Guide to the Materials for United States History in 

 Canadian Archives. Octavo, 339 pages. Published 1913. Price $2.00. 

 The archives of the Dominion of Canada in Ottawa are made up of two great 

 masses of material. One is a great collection of transcripts from the English and 

 French archives. Of these the Dominion Government published calendars, and 

 Mr. Parker could therefore give them a summary treatment, the more so because 

 the originals from which they are copied will be described in the Institution's books 

 on the London and Paris archives. The other mass comprises what may be called 

 indigenous Canadian materials, derived from the offices of the Governor-General, 

 the Secretary of State, and the various ministries, and rich in materials for the 

 history of the United States, especially in the period since 1791. Besides a careful 

 descriptive list of these, Mr. Parker has included in the book similar accounts of 

 the materials for United States history in the provincial archives of Nova Scotia 

 at Halifax, in those of New Brunswick at Fredericton, and in those of the Province 

 of Ontario at Toronto. Full accounts and lists of materials of similar bearing in 

 the civil archives of the Province of Quebec and in the ecclesiastical archives of the 

 archbishopric there, and briefer descriptions of the archives of Newfoundland, 

 British Columbia, and other western provinces have been added by other hands. 

 No. 90. ANDREWS, CHARLES M., and FRANCES G. DAVENPORT. Guide to the Manu- 

 script Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, in the 

 British Museum, in Minor London Archives, and in Libraries of Oxford 

 and Cambridge. Octavo, xiv+499 pages. Published 1908. Price $2.00. 

 The chief masses of material in London for the history of the United States 

 are those in the Public Record Office. A volume relating to these, upon which 

 Professor Andrews has expended a large amount of time and labor, would natu- 

 rally have had precedence over this present work; but its publication has had to 

 be deferred on account of the large amount of reclassification which the Public 

 Record Office has resolved upon in respect to the Colonial Office papers and other 

 portions of the whole. Accordingly the present volume, though naturally supple- 

 mentary, has been brought out first in order. Professor Andrews has furnished 

 an itemized list, with proper explanations and comments, of all those papers in the 

 library of the British Museum which relate to the history before 1783 of the United 

 States and all other British portions of North America. This he has followed 

 with an account of the materials in the Privy Council Office, Miss Davenport has 

 furnished detailed statements of the materials for American history preserved in 

 the Archives of the House of Lords, in the library of the Archbishop of Canterbury 

 at Lambeth, in that of the Bishop of London at Fulham, and in other archives, public 

 and semi-public, civil and ecclesiastical, in London. Professor Andrews concludes 

 the volume with an itemized list of the American papers in the Bodleian Library 

 and in other libraries of Oxford and Cambridge. The volume is minutely indexed. 



