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dian archives," Publication No. 172. A year ago Mr. Parker was reported 

 as having completed his description of the materials for United States his- 

 tory in the archives of the Dominion of Canada at Ottawa, much the largest 

 portion of his book, and his subsidiary accounts of the archives of the prov- 

 inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. For the archives of 

 the archbishopric of Quebec, the needful report had been prepared by Prof. 

 Frederick J. Zwierlein, of St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York. 

 All these portions of the volume were sent to the printer in May. Just be- 

 fore the transmission of the manuscript, however, it was discovered that, for 

 reasons for which Professor Zwierlein was not responsible, his account of 

 the civil archives of the province of Quebec was deficient in respect to highly 

 important portions of that repository. This section of the volume has there- 

 fore been reserved for fuller treatment by Mr. Leland, who will presently 

 visit Quebec for the purpose. 



Delays have also attended the preparation of reports upon the materials 

 for United States history in the archives of British Columbia and New- 

 foundland, which, however, are shortly expected from the hands of local 

 experts. Brief reports for the newer provinces of the Northwest have been 

 obtained from authoritative local sources. 



Since Mr. Leland's return from Paris the work upon the American ma- 

 terials in the archives of that city has gone forward under the effective 

 charge of M. Abel Doysie. It has consisted in the completion of the section 

 called Archives Historiques and the papers of the Section de I'Artillerie and 

 the Comite du Genie at the Ministry of War; in progress in the series B^, 

 B^, and B" (Decisions, Ordres et Depeches, and Pays fitrangers) of the 

 archives of the Ministry of Marine anterior to 1790, now transferred to the 

 Archives Nationales ; in progress in series B of the archives of the Ministrj- 

 of the Colonies, similarly transferred, and in the completion of the Louisiana 

 portion of series C ; in the completion of the series Espagne in the archives 

 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; in various work at the Archives Na- 

 tionales and the Bibliotheque Nationale ; and, among depositories and col- 

 lections not public, in the examination of the volumes relating to America in 

 the Missions fitrangeres and of the papers of General Turreau. 



In Seville Mr. Roscoe R. Hill has continued throughout the year, in the 

 Archives of the Indies, his work of describing and listing the materials for 

 the history of the United States in the section entitled "Papeles procedentes 

 de la Isla de Cuba." The whole task involves the examination of nearly a 

 thousand legajos (bundles) of manuscript, averaging about 460 documents 

 to the bundle. The section includes nearly a thousand legajos that relate 

 wholly or partly to the United States. Of these, a large number were ex- 

 amined between January and November 191 1. During the past twelve 

 months Mr. Plill has personally examined about 500 more, and completed 

 descriptions of them upon a uniform plan, such that, upon the average, each 

 legajo will be represented by a half-page of printed description in the book 



