156 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



receipt of transcripts from the Public Record Office, furnished by Miss 

 Fisher, extending the series of despatches received by the Foreign Secretary 

 from the British Minister in Philadelphia some four or five years, namely, 

 from the arrival of Robert Liston as minister, in May 1796, to the end of the 

 year 1800, when he returned to England. Transcripts completing the 

 minor series from Nova Scotia have also been received. The Department 

 has now continuous materials for two or three volumes of the series, but in 

 the work of annotating and otherwise preparing these interesting letters 

 for the press, a labor which falls to the Director of the Department, he has 

 been able to make little progress during the year, because of the pressure of 

 other duties belonging to his office. 



The first volume of the four devoted to Historical Documents relating to 

 New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Approaches Thereto, collected by the 

 late Dr. Adolph F. Bandelier and Mrs. Bandelier, and edited by Professor 

 Charles W. Hackett, of the University of Texas, was described, as manu- 

 script, in the last report. The manuscript was sent to the printer in January. 

 At the end of the year the proof-reading was completed, with the single 

 exception of the reading of page-proof of the index, which no doubt will 

 shortly be received. The book will then be published, as a volume of.about 

 500 pages, the Spanish of the original documents on the left-hand pages, 

 their English translations on the right, with careful introductions and anno- 

 tations. In general terms, this volume, conveying a wealth of new informa- 

 tion, extends to the definitive founding of New Mexico and to the year 1609. 



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, mainly by the 

 Director and Miss Griffin, with aid from Dr. Burnett in one section. Various 

 help has been given to the American Historical Association and other his- 

 torical societies, especially in respect to investigations in Washington ar- 

 chives, and many inquiries from historical students have been answered 

 or transcripts of documents procured for them. 



The Director has served as one of the two representatives of the American 

 Historical Association in the American Council of Learned Societies, and as 

 chairman of its committee on a proposed Dictionary of American Biography, 

 similar in design to the British Dictionary of National Biography. Mr, 

 Leland, as a member of an American committee, rendered important aid in 

 the organization of the Fifth International Congress of Historical Studies, 

 held in Brussels in April; and in its section on the documentation of the 

 World War, over one of whose sessions he presided, he read a paper on war 

 archives of the United States. He has by invitation attended sessions, and 

 assisted in the work, of one of the subcommittees in the Committee on Intel- 

 lectual Cooperation organized by the League of Nations. He has prepared 

 an historical account of the work of the National Board for Historical Studies, 

 an organization in whose work during war time the Department was deeply 

 engaged, for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, and 

 has continued to direct the work of transcribing documents in Paris archives 

 for the Library of Congress. Dr. Stock has given a course of historical 

 instruction in the Catholic University of America, and a course of lectures 

 at the Catholic Summer School of America at Cliff Haven, New York, on 

 the relations between the United States and the States of the Church. 



