98 REPORTS OF inve;stigations and projects. 



Prof. W. H. Allison has continued the collection of data for his report on 

 the materials for American religious history preserved in denominational 

 archives and the libraries of colleges, theological seminaries, and missionary 

 societies, by examining during the summer a considerable number of eccle- 

 siastical archives of this sort, situated at Dayton, Ohio; Philadelphia, Ger- 

 mantown. Mount Airy, and Haverford, Pennsylvania; New York City; 

 Boston, Medford, and Andover, Massachusetts ; Hanover, New Hampshire ; 

 and Lewiston, Maine. This, added to the work of the last year, nearly com- 

 pletes the list of such repositories which contain enough material to justify 

 personal visitation, or are so placed as to make it practicable without large 

 expense. Archives less rich, or situated in more remote sections of the 

 South and West, have been addressed by circular. In most cases those 

 having any considerable amount of valuable material have supplied the 

 (necessary data. With a few exceptions, therefore, the work of collection is 

 completed, and the data have been taken down in such a form as will make 

 it easy to put the whole in shape for publication. 



After some typographical experiments, intended to secure the best form 

 for reports on foreign archives, Mr. Luis M, Perez's "Guide to the materials 

 for American history in Cuban archives" has been issued in an octavo volume 

 of 152 pages. Besides the aid it has already rendered to several historical 

 investigators, its publication has had an excellent effect in drawing public 

 attention in Cuba to the value of the national archives, and in leading the! 

 provisional government to bestow much more care upon this interesting 

 national possession than previous governments have done. On the ground 

 of military necessity during the insurrection of August, 1906, the preceding 

 government had caused the national archives to be moved, in great haste 

 and disorder, from the Cuartel de la Fuerza to even more unsuitable quarters. 

 Much loss and confusion was caused by the removal. The provisional gov- 

 ernment has taken measures to remedy this disaster, as far as posible, has 

 caused the present archive building to be adequately shelved, has begun the 

 preparation of a card index, and has introduced better regulations as to the 

 copying and historical use of papers. 



Prof. W. R. Shepherd's "Guide to the materials for the history of the 

 United States in Spanish archives (Simancas, the Archivo Historico-Na- 

 cional, and Seville)," an octavo of about 105 pages, will be issued within a 

 few days of the completion of the year herein reported on. 



Prof. C. M. Andrews's "Guide to the materials for the history of the 

 United States to 1783 in London archives, in the British Museum, and in the 

 manuscript collections of Oxford and Cambridge," now completed, would 

 make in print two octavo volumes of about 400 pages each. When arrange- 

 ments for its printing had been concluded, and the first volume was mostly 

 in the printer's hands (only a few pages, however, having been actually set 

 up in type), word was received from Professor Andrews in London which 

 compelled all progress with this volume to stop. The British Public Record 



