Il6 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



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

 torical papers in Washington and other matters have been ansv^ered with 

 the usual 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, 

 and has endeavored to mediate between them and foreign archives and other 

 remote sources of historical information whenever occasion arose. 



PLANS FOR 1913. 

 REPORTS, AIDS, AND GUIDES. 



While experience has taught the value of caution in respect to predicting, 

 there seems to be no reason why the ensuing twelve months should not see 

 the issue (after the first Public Record Office volume, above described as 

 nearly ready for issue) : first, of Professor Bolton's "Guide to materials for 

 the history of the United States in Mexican archives ;" secondly, of Mr. 

 Parker's "Guide to the materials for United States history in Canadian 

 archives;" thirdly, of Dr. Paullin and Professor Paxson's "Guide to ma- 

 terials for United States history, since 1783, in London archives"; and 

 fourthly, of the second volume of Professor Andrews's "Guide to the manu- 

 script materials for the history of the United States, to 1783, in the Public 

 Record Office." 



For the completion of the work in Paris, Mr. Leland will expect to go 

 there in April, to work until November, in conjunction with M. Doysie and 

 the clerical assistants. 



Mr. Hill expects that his own work at Seville in the "Papeles procedentes 

 de la Isla de Cuba" will be completed in March, and that of his clerks in 

 April. Upon its completion he will return to the United States, and finish 

 for the press the expected volume describing in numerical order the legajos 

 of this section of the Archives of the Indies. 



It is proposed that Prof. Albert B. Faust, of Cornell University, having 

 leave of absence from that institution, shall in February proceed to Switzer- 

 land to make, after detailed researches in the archives of the sixteen German 

 cantons and those of the Confederation, a book which, under the title "Guide 

 to the materials for American history in Swnss archives," shall embrace not 

 only the results of his researches, but those obtained by the Director's exami- 

 nation of the archives of the French-speaking cantons in the past summer. 

 The German part of the book should, for reasons already explained, form a 

 notable aid to the historical study of the Germanic migration to America. 

 It is planned that the volume shall also include, first, data from the remaining 

 (Italian) canton of Ticino; secondly, the results of a thorough investigation 

 of the archives of Salzburg, in all directions bearing upon the emigration, in 

 1733 and subsequent years, of Protestants from the archbishopric of Salz- 

 burg to Georgia ; and thirdly, a report upon the materials for American 

 history in the archives of Vienna. 



