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the Department possesses. Miss Elizabeth Donnan has worked through 

 three volumes of the Lords' Journals, Mr. B. B. Kendrick through the entire 

 series of those of the Irish House of Commons. In respect to the debates, 

 Professor Manning, at various times up to August, continued his search in 

 volumes professedly devoted to debates and in others in which a certain 

 number of them are casually to be found, and of late especially in the eigh- 

 teenth century magazines. In London, Miss Mary T. Martin, assisted by 

 Miss Salisbury, has made a beginning of furnishing from Egerton MSS. 

 215-263 at the British Museum correct texts of the reports of American 

 debates written down privately by Sir Henry Cavendish, M. P. for Lost- 

 withiel in the "Unreported Parliament" of 1 768-1 774. The important part 

 which American affairs played in that Parliament, and the general exclusion 

 of reporters from it, give a high place as an American historical source to 

 Cavendish's careful reports. A minor part of them was once printed, with a 

 quite inaccurate text; for the most part they remain in manuscript, and to a 

 certain extent in shorthand. 



MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS. 



As heretofore, the editing of the American Historical Review has been 

 carried on in the office of the Department and by its staff. Mr. Leland has 

 prepared the annual summary of American historical progress appearing in 

 the Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft and a similar biennial survey 

 for the Revue Historique. In Paris he has supervised the making of the 

 calendar of papers in the French archives relating to the history of the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley described in the last report, and undertaken by an associated 

 group of historical organizations in the United States. 



As in previous years, searches and copies have been made by the Depart- 

 ment, or under its supervision, for organizations such as the Wisconsin State 

 Historical Society, and for many individuals. Letters of inquiry as to his- 

 torical papers in Washington and other matters have been answered with 

 great freedom. The Director has, as a matter of course, done what he could 

 in small miscellaneous ways to further the interests in Washington of the 

 American Historical Association and of American historical scholars. Among 

 such minor services has been the private issue of a pamphlet "List of doctoral 

 dissertations in history in progress, December, 1909," prepared in the office 

 of the Department from materials supplied by persons occupied with the 

 preparation, in graduate schools, of candidates for the doctor's degree in 

 history, and sent out in a small number of copies to such persons. 



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