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Professor Waldemar Westergaard, of Pomona College, author of the standard 

 work on The Danish West Indies under Company Rule, 1671-1754 (1917), has 

 permitted the Department to reproduce from that volume, now out of print, 

 his full account of the materials on the history of these islands preserved in 

 the archives of Copenhagen, and has made arrangements with competent 

 persons there to continue the data down to later periods of Danish rule. 



The Department is also indebted to Professor Westergaard for arrange- 

 ments made with respect to the papers concerning diplomatic negotiations 

 of the United States with Sweden and Denmark. During residence this year 

 in Stockholm and Copenhagen he obtained through the aid of Mr. Erik Nau- 

 mann, one of the archivists of the Riksarkiv of Sweden, an adequate account 

 of the diplomatic papers of that government concerning America, and a 

 similar report from the Danish ministry of foreign affairs is to be obtained 

 through the kind offices of Madame Backer. 



For the third sort of archival material, that relating to emigration to 

 America from the three Scandinavian countries, the Department has been 

 able to avail itself of means provided through the public-spirited action of 

 the American-Scandinavian Foundation and of its secretary, Mr. James 

 Creese. In the annual assignment, in the spring, of its fellowships intended 

 to promote study in Scandinavia on the part of American students, the 

 American-Scandinavian Foundation awarded one, for the year beginning 

 July 1, 1923, to Mr. Gunnar J. Malmin, of Luther College and of St. Paul, 

 with the understanding that his studies, through all such portion of the year 

 as might be necessary, should be devoted to the making of a detailed report, 

 for this Department and under instructions from it, upon the records of 

 emigration to the United States which might be found in the archives of 

 Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. With grateful appreciation, the Director 

 prepared the necessary instructions, and Mr. Malmin sailed for Norway in 

 July. Before the end of August he had taken at Christiania the necessary 

 notes of materials of the Social Department, which since 1913 has had the 

 control and supervision of emigration, but whose papers on the subject begin 

 in 1845. He has also investigated the material in the departments of foreign 

 affairs, justice, and police, and the Stiftsarkiv (ecclesiastical archives). In 

 these searches he has been very kindly assisted by Mr. Christian Brinch- 

 mann, archivist in the Riksarkiv, and by Mr. Th. G. Thorsen, of the Social 

 Department. 



In order to make an adequate presentation of the manuscript matter con- 

 cerning emigration, it will be necessary for Mr. Malmin not to confine his work 

 in Norway to Christiania, but also to make some investigations at the chief 

 other out-ports of emigration, Trondhjem, Bergen, Stavanger, and Chris- 

 tiansand. Similarly, in Sweden, it will be necessary for him to make some 

 inspection of the archives of Gothenburg as well as of the national deposits 

 at Stockholm. The main portion of his report from Christiania is already 

 in hand. 



The Department's Guide for the Scandinavian archives will thus be a 

 composite volume, but it is believed that it will embrace all that is essential 

 for the uses of the historical student. 



It remains to speak of the archives of the British West Indies. Search 

 of the island archives themselves has not yet become practicable, for want 

 of appropriations, except that, as heretofore mentioned, the Department 



