26o REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



chives of the former convent of San Fernando, where it may be that some of 

 the documents were saved. 



Osgood, Herbert L., Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Grants No. 

 735, allotted October 19, 191 1, and No. 808, allotted March 21, 1912. 

 Completion of an institutional history of the American Colonies during 

 the period of the French wars. $1,000 



After the first grant from the Carnegie Institution of Washington was 

 made for the prosecution of work on the history of the American colonies 

 during the period of the French wars, Mr. S. A. Wood was continuously 

 employed on material relating to Pennsylvania. He has been through the 

 voluminous papers of James Logan, parts of the Shippen and Peters papers, 

 nearly all of the Penn papers, and then examined some of the Pennsylvania 

 newspapers of the period. On two occasions I have been able to assist him 

 several days at a time. The notes on unprinted Pennsylvania material are 

 now nearly all taken. The same is true of the material relating to Massa- 

 chusetts, and these are the two largest collections of unprinted records in the 

 possession of any of the original thirteen States. In August Mr. Wood's 

 connection with the work ceased ; he has been an efficient helper. His place 

 has been taken by Dr. Newton D. Mereness, an experienced investigator. 

 He will at once put into my hands all the notes which he took for his book 

 on Maryland as a proprietary province, which will save much work at Balti- 

 more and Annapolis. During the next two or three months I plan that Dr. 

 Mereness shall help in New York in the organizing of material already 

 collected and the composition of certain chapters from this. 



I have been for several months devoting all my time to the writing of the 

 chapters which will constitute the first volume of the completed work. In 

 rough form these are now more than half done. Work on them and on the 

 arrangement of material for the later volumes will be continued during the 

 present year. 



CLASSICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. 



Scott, James Brown, General Editor, Washington, District of Columbia. 

 Grant No. 712, allotted December 13, 1910. Preparation and publication 

 of the Classics of International Law. (For previous reports see Year 

 Books Nos. 9 and 10.) $10,000 



Professor Westlake, lately Whewell Professor of International Law at the 

 University of Cambridge and Honorary President of the Institute of Inter- 

 national Law, has edited the treatise of Ayala, entitled De jure et officiis 

 bellicis et disciplina militari, originally issued in the year 1582, and to the 

 volume containing the photographic reproduction of the original text he has 

 added an interesting and valuable introduction. John Pawley Bate, reader 

 of Roman and International Law in the Inns of Court, London, has made a 



