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in season for incorporation in the proposed "Guide." It is not in- 

 tended that the Department's West Indian volume shall be sent to 

 press until the other and complementary portion of the work has been 

 completed, the inspection of the island archives. With Dr. Bell's 

 report upon the latter, including those of Bermuda, will be incorporated 

 Mr. Perez's material on those of Jamaica, and a special report on the 

 archives of the Bahamas, already in the possession of the Department. 



It is possible that the same volume may also be found to be the most 

 convenient place in which to describe the small amount of American 

 material to be found in the archives of Scotland and Ireland. Miss 

 Sybil Norman, of Edinburgh, who in previous years has worked under 

 Mr. Leland's direction in the archives of Paris, has made considerable 

 progress in a systematic search of those of Edinburgh for papers 

 bearing on American history. Much material for the history of the 

 Darien Expedition has been foimd, but no great amount of other 

 American matter. 



jMr. Leland's duties as secretary of the National Board for Historical 

 Service and as secretary of the American Historical Association have, 

 during this year also, prevented him from devoting much time to the 

 ''Guide to Materials for American History in Paris Archives," on 

 which he has been so long engaged. The ending of warfare has, how- 

 ever, released from the French mihtary service Mr. Abel Doysie, who 

 before the war had so admirably assisted him. Resuming work in April, 

 Mr. Doysie has dealt with the new manuscript accessions (since 1914) 

 of the Bibliotheque Nationale, wdth the manuscripts of the library 

 of the Senate, the Arsenal, and the two great libraries of the Marine. 

 He has made a beginning in the library of the Institute. His work has 

 been planned in accordance with, the project of publishing first that 

 one of the three volumes of the "Guide" which has to do with manu- 

 scripts in Parisian libraries. 



Mrs. Surrey has continued her work of editing for publication a 

 calendar of papers in Paris archives and libraries bearing on the his- 

 tory of the Mississippi Valley, based on notes taken in Paris under 

 Mr. Leland's direction. Working with great assiduity, she has now 

 completed a total of 17,500 cards. Through November, December, 

 and January her field of work lay among the transcripts lately obtained 

 from French archives by the Library of Congress, which enabled her to 

 verify or amend the data taken from the originals in Paris. Later, in 

 May and June, several weeks' work among the Paris transcripts in the 

 Public Archives of Canada, at Ottawa, enabled her to carry out the 

 same process through still another section of the material laid before 

 her. The rest of her work upon it has been done in the New York 

 Public Library. 



In the work upon the "Atla« of the Historical Geography of the 

 United States," Dr. Paullin, with the aid of the draftsman, Mr. J. B. 



