112 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



The work upon the American Proceedings and Debates in Parliament has 

 been advanced along several lines. First, the scope of the project has been 

 more exactly defined in respect to such matters as British commerce, duties, 

 bounties, drawbacks, piracy, and Atlantic fisheries, the endeavor being made 

 to frame such instructions as will lead to the inclusion of whatever directly or 

 by reasonable implication relates to the history of the American colonies, 

 while excluding that which applies to America only as it applies to the whole 

 British Empire. Secondly, Dr. Walter F. Dodd, taking up the work upon the 

 journals of the House of Commons at the point at which it was left by Dr. 

 Bowman, has continued to the end of volume 34 and to the year 1774 the 

 process of copying or listing for the copyist (copying in the case of the brief 

 entries, listing in the case of the longer) those portions of the text of the 

 journals which are to be printed in the proposed publication. Thirdly, Dr. 

 Jernegan perfected a remarkably complete list of all those printed books and 

 manuscripts which contain or are asserted to contain reports of any debates 

 in Parliament. Fourthly, Prof. W. R. Manning, of the George Washington 

 University, working with this list as a basis, has examined a large portion of 

 the printed books contained in it which are to be found in the Library of Con- 

 gress, and has noted from them, in form suitable for the guidance of a copy- 

 ist, all those passages which contain debates relating to America, and which, 

 after editorial criticism and comparison of all available texts, may be used in 

 the proposed compilation. These three investigators have worked in agree- 

 ment as to principles of inclusion and exclusion, and in frequent consultation, 

 to insure a unified product. 



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. Mr. Leland has prepared the annual summary of American histori- 

 cal progress appearing in the "Jahresberichte der Geschichtswissenschaft." 

 He has also been engaged to prepare hereafter a somewhat similar biennial 

 survey for the Revue Historique. 



The Director has given some time to the supervision of an annual bibliog- 

 raphy. Writings on American History, 1906, compiled by Miss Grace G. Grif- 

 fin, and continuing the volume "Writings on American History, 1903," pub- 

 lished by the Carnegie Institution. He has believed it to be distinctly a part 

 of his duty to assist the American Historical Association by taking part in the 

 work of its special committee on cooperation among historical societies in the 

 exploitation of foreign archives, by acting as general editor of its series of 

 "Original narratives of early American history," by preparing the program 

 for its approaching annual meeting, to be held in Washington and Richmond, 

 and by assuming ad interim the duties of the secretary of the association, the 

 latter having resigned. 



