DEPARTMENT 0E HISTORICAL RESEARCH. IO9 



The last annual report noted the completion of Prof. Marion D. Learned's 

 searches directed toward the preparation of a "Guide to the materials for 

 American history in German archives." During the winter and spring he 

 labored upon the composition of his report, and presented it in June. The 

 summer's examination of it developed the belief that it could be made more 

 useful by certain additions, which, however, can not be completed at the time 

 of the present report, owing to Professor Learned's attendance as a delegate 

 at the centenary of the University of Berlin. It is hoped, however, that the 

 end of December may see the manuscript finished and ready for publication. 



Since, for reasons explained a year ago, the search upon which it is based 

 was not confined to one central archive, but ranged through all the chief 

 archives of Prussia and the other German states, the arrangement resembles 

 that of Professor Allison's inventory rather than that of most of our Euro- 

 pean guides. The various archives are presented in an alphabetical order. 

 But in each case, after a general description of the archive, its American 

 contents are listed in the order indicated by the systematic arrangement pre- 

 vailing in the interior of German archives. Its itemized lists will be useful 

 to three classes of historical investigators: first of all, to those interested in 

 the history of German migration to the United States, but also to those occu- 

 pied with the history of diplomatic relations between our country and the 

 German states, and to those occupied with the war of the Revolution and the 

 Hessian and other auxiliary German troops. The book is confined to ar- 

 chives in the German Empire ; those of German Switzerland and Austria, 

 including Salzburg, are to be treated later. 



Early in October the Department received from Prof. Herbert E. Bolton, 

 of Stanford University, the manuscript of his "Guide to the materials for 

 the history of the United States in Mexican archives," on the writing of 

 which he has been engaged ever since the completion of his prolonged re- 

 searches in Mexican archives. It is a book of approximately the size of 

 those mentioned above, and composed on a plan bearing a general resem- 

 blance to theirs. It covers, as previous reports have indicated, not only the 

 general archives of the Federal Government in the City of Mexico, but a 

 great variety of provincial and local archives in northern Mexico, situated in 

 towns which formerly bore the relation of provincial capitals, civil or eccle- 

 siastical, to those parts of the United States formerly dependent on Mexico 

 or New Spain — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California. 



During the year some progress has been made in Paris toward the com- 

 pletion of Mr. Leland's "Guide to the materials for American history in the 

 archives of Paris," and in London and Baltimore toward the rearrangement 

 of Professor Andrews's British "Guide" into accord with the new classifica- 

 tions at the Public Record Office. 



In June Prof. Frederic L. Paxson, of the University of Wisconsin, and 

 Dr. Charles O. Paullin began work in London, gathering the materials for a 

 "Guide to the materials for the history of the United States since 1783 in 



