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the Executiv Committee, after considering this report at length, authorize! 

 by resolution adopted May 16, 1910, a continuation of the work in question 

 along the lines hitherto followd, with the understanding that it be brought to 

 such a state of completion as may prove practicable under the limitations of 

 the balances of appropriations alredy made to the department. 



In addition to the special report referd to above, attention should be in- 

 vited also to the annual report of progress renderd by the Chairman of the 

 department in the current Year Book. From this it is seen that a large num- 

 ber of individuals have collaborated in carrying forward the programs of 

 work adopted for the twelve departmental divisions of research. During the 

 year the conduct of the Division of Labor, originally in charge of Dr. Wright, 

 has been assignd, under favorable conditions, to Prof. John R. Commons, of 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



Several volumes of publications arising directly or indirectly from the 

 investigations of the department have been issued during the year thru 

 the agencies of commercial publishers. Two volumes also of the Index of 

 Economic Material in the Documents of the United States, namely, those for 

 Delaware and Kentucky, prepard under the auspices of the department by 

 Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, have been issued as publications of the Institution. 



The removal of the administration offises from the Bond Building a year 



ago made it practicable for the Department of Historical Research to secure 



more desirable and somewhat more enlargd quarters than 



„. D«P^ft^^"t of ^ j|. j-^jjg hitherto occupied in that building. By reason of this 



readjustment the conditions for comfort and efficiency of 



the resident staff of the department have been distinctly improved. 



One of the most important works produced by the department has appeard 

 during the year under the title "List of documents in Spanish archives relat- 

 ing to the history of the United States, which have been printed or of which 

 transcripts are preserved in American libraries," Publication No. 124, pre- 

 pard by Dr. James A. Robertson, now librarian of the Philippine Library, 

 Manila. Two other works of similar import are now in press, namely : 

 "Guide to the materials for American history in Roman and other Italian 

 archives," Publication No. 128, by Prof. C. R. Fish ; and "Inventory of the 

 unpublished material for American religious history in Protestant Church 

 archives and other repositories," Publication No. 137, by Prof. William H. 

 Allison, now of Colgate Theological Seminary. 



Manuscripts have been receivd also of the "Guide to materials for Amer- 

 ican history in German archives," by Prof. Marion D. Learned, and of 

 the "Guide to materials for the history of the LTnited States in Mexican 

 archives," by Prof. Herbert E. Boulton. Progress is likewise reported in 

 respect to a guide to materials for American history in the archives of Paris, 

 in preparation by Mr. Leland, of the department staff; and in the rearrange- 

 ment of a guide to British materials made necessary by a reclassification of 

 the British Public Record Office promulgated after Prof. C. M. Andrews 

 had the preparation of this guide well under way. 



