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tical archives in the same region would be found to contain extensive records 

 of missionary activity and observation in our Southwest. These desires and 

 expectations have been reahzed to a gratifying extent. At Queretaro Mr. 

 Bolton found most in the archives of the Franciscan College of Santa Cruz ; 

 at San Luis Potosi, in the general archive and that of the Department of Jus- 

 tice, the latter containing the remaining papers of the old intendancy-general 

 of San Luis Potosi ; at Guadalajara, in the archives of the various depart- 

 ments, especially that of justice, in the Archive of Instrumentos Publicos, in 

 the public library, in the archive of the Ayuntamiento, and in those of the 

 secretary and cabildo of the archbishopric. At Zacatecas, his finds were 

 chiefly in the College of Guadalupe; at Chihuahua, in the archives of the 

 State. He devoted the remaining available portion of September to the 

 archives of Parral and Santa Barbara, and to those of Durango and Saltillo. 

 Resuming his work at the University of Texas on September 20, Mr. Bolton 

 had left, of the provincial archives of the Mexican Republic important to our 

 purposes, only a few of those nearest to Texas and accessible in short 

 vacations. 



The appointment of Prof. Carl Russell Fish, of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, as a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for a 

 period of fourteen months beginning in July, 1908, has made it possible to 

 undertake, under the auspices of this Department, similar searches in the 

 archives and libraries of Rome and the making of a similar inventory of the 

 manuscript materials which they contain for the history of the United States 

 and Canada. During the months before Professor Fish's departure, pains 

 had been taken to establish favorable relations with those who might aid his 

 work in Rome ; indeed, many such persons had at the time of the Director's 

 visit to that city in 1906 assured him of their disposition to help any agent 

 who might be sent for this purpose by the Department. The Department of 

 State has been so good as to instruct our Ambassador in Rome to further 

 Professor Fish's mission. It is hoped that, beside the Vatican and Italian 

 archives and the various libraries, he may, through the kind offices exercised 

 on our behalf by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons, be permitted to extend his 

 researches to the archives of the Congregation of the Propaganda, important 

 for American history but not ordinarily accessible. Even without this, how- 

 ever, the harvest should be a rich one. 



Before sailing, at the end of June, Professor Fish grounded himself thor- 

 oughly in the literature of the Roman archives, and conferred at length with 

 the Director in Ithaca. Arriving in England, he examined the archives of 

 the Jesuits at Stonyhurst and the Roman transcripts at the Public Record 

 Office. In Paris he made an inspection of similar papers at the Bibliotheque 

 Nationale and of the Napoleonic inventories of Roman archives. At the In- 

 ternational Historical Congress in Berlin, and elsewhere on his course to 



