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was convinced by a hasty reconnaissance in 1913, not great. It is 

 mostly commercial; on the important subject of Irish emigration to 

 the American colonies and the United States little light is cast. It 

 is expected that Mr. Bell's brief report will be amplified on at least 

 one side, that of prize and other admiralty records, by searches made 

 at more leisure by a worker resident in Dublin. In the archives of 

 Edinburgh, Miss Sibyl Norman has found a certain number of docu- 

 ments of interest to students of American history. She has not yet 

 been able to carry out the search systematically or thoroughly, but 

 it is not believed that many such documents are to be found. 



In the work upon the "Atlas of the Historical Geography of the 

 United States," Dr. Paullin has made progress along five lines. First 

 he has completed the series "Lands," which as finished consists of 61 

 maps and 30 pages of text; the principal matters illustrated are: 

 divisions of the land, disposition of the land by the government, and 

 varieties of land-holding. Secondly, in the series illustrating trans- 

 portation, for which the later maps had already been made by Dr. 

 Paullin and Professor Whitbeck, the former has now completed four 

 maps showing the main stage-coach roads and the public post-roads 

 of 1774, the main post-roads of 1804 and 1834, and the railroads of 

 1870. Thirdly, he has completed five maps illustrating colleges, at 

 various periods from 1775 to 1890, and nineteen maps illustrating 

 churches in 1860 and 1890, and has assisted Professor Jernegan in 

 preparations for the series illustrating the churches in 1775. Fourthly, 

 he has begun work on three maps designed to show the routes of 

 French, Spanish, and American explorers in the Mississippi and trans- 

 Mississippi regions. Finally, he has begun the work of bringing 

 certain series up to date by the addition of maps for which materials 

 have, by the lapse of time, become now available. These include 

 maps showing the geographical distribution of votes in Congress on 

 the war resolution of 1917 and of popular votes in the presidential 

 election of 1920, and various maps resting on the data collected in the 

 census of 1920, and completing series resting on earlier censuses. 

 For all maps that have been completed, the letterpress has also been 

 prepared. In the execution of the maps Dr. Paullin has had, as usual, 

 the aid of Mr. J. B. Bronson as draftsman. 



Mr. Matteson's work on the items respecting manuscripts relating 

 to American history which are to be found in the printed catalogues 

 of manuscripts put forth by European libraries, or otherwise pub- 

 lished, was continued during the last three months of 1920, but not 

 during 1921. His searches, in the portion of time which he gave to 

 our work, covered the catalogue material to be found in the New York 

 Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and Yale 

 University, from which some additions were made to the titles he 

 had accumulated by the work pursued hitherto in the libraries of 

 Cambridge and Boston. 



