594 BALCH— SOME FORMER MEMBERS. [April i8, 



With the names of historical scholars our rolls in the past at 

 least are rich. Upon them we find Washington Irving, minister to 

 Spain, biographer of Washington and author of " Rip Van Winkle," 

 the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "The Alhambra" and the "Con- 

 quest of Granada " ; Jared Sparks, American historian, who wrote 

 of Washington and other parts of our history ; William H. Prescott, 

 who related the conquest of Mexico; Frangois P. G. Guizot, prime 

 minister of Louis Philippe, membre of I'Academie Frangaise and 

 author of " L'Histoire de la Civilization en France " and " L'Histoire 

 de France"; Lord Mahon, Fifth Earl of Stanhope, statesman and 

 historian, lord rector of the University of Aberdeen and a foreign 

 member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Paris ; 

 Victor Duruy, French minister of public education and author of 

 " L'Histoire du Moyen Age " and " L'Histoire de France " ; John 

 Lothrop Motley, who has told the world of the struggles of the 

 Netherlands for freedom and independence ; George Bancroft, who 

 related for us our own history from the beginning of the nation 

 until a little after its reception into the family of nations ; Charles 

 J. Stille, president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and 

 provost of the University of Pennsylvania, who wrote of Anthony 

 Wayne ; Theodore Mommsen, author of the " History of Rome " ; 

 and his fellow countryman, Leopold von Ranke, who treated of the 

 Middle Ages; James Anthony Froude, regius professor of history 

 at Oxford, who wrote " The History of England from the Fall of 

 Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada " and many lesser 

 works; the Rt. Rev. William Stubbs, Bishop, of Oxford, author of 

 many works relating to the history of England; Henry Martyn 



Walker, Nebraska, for a monograpn on " The Development of Law as illus- 

 trated by the Decisions relating to the Police Power of the State." In 1912, 

 this prize was awarded to Charles H. Burr, of Philadelphia, for an essay on 

 "The Treaty-Making Power of the United States and the Method of its 

 enforcement as affecting the Police Powers of the States." 



The Society also possesses the Thomas Balch International Law Fund. 

 This endowment was established in 191 1 as a memorial to Thomas Balch " for 

 his share in bringing about the arbitration by the Geneval Tribunal of the 

 Alabama claims." It is intended, subject to certain restrictions, to be used 

 for tile purchase of books relating to the law of nations and such other uses, 

 when thought advisable, as may promote the study of that science. 



