DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH * 



J. Franklin Jameson, Director. 



The following report, the sixth annual report of the present Director, 

 covers the period from November i, 1910, to October 31, 191 1. The regular 

 staff of the Department has been increased by the addition of Mr. Leo. F. 

 Stock as a permanent member, and by the appointment of Miss Elizabeth P. 

 Donnan, heretofore professor of history and dean in Rollins College, Florida, 

 to take the place made vacant by the resignation of Miss Georgia Sanderlin, 

 who after five years of most useful and devoted service, has withdrawn on 

 account of illness. Mr. Leland and Miss Davenport have been in Europe 

 throughout the year. 



The quarters of the Department have remained unchanged. It has occu- 

 pied the same rooms in the Bond Building, convenient and relatively satis- 

 factory, but not so advantageous for our work as a separate building nearer 

 .to the Library of Congress would be. As the year closes, the erection of a 

 tall building with blank walls, six feet from the windows of the Director's 

 office, is beginning to make that and one of the other rooms impossible for 

 want of light. From the middle of June until the middle of September the 

 office work of the Department was in the main carried on elsewhere than in 

 Washington, part of the staff working with the Director at North Edgecomb, 

 Maine, part of it in Cambridge, and part of it in Washington. 



For statements respecting the general plans of the Department and the 

 purposes which its operations are intended to subserve, the Director begs 

 leave to refer to former reports, and confines the present report to state- 

 ments respecting the progress of specific publications and other undertak- 

 ings. The publications of the Department, as has been explained in previous 

 reports, fall naturally into two classes, the one that of reports, aids, and 

 guides; the other that of textual publications of documents. Under these 

 two heads, and a third relating to the miscellaneous activities of the Depart- 

 ment, the work of the past year and the plans for 1912 will be successively 

 considered in this report. 



WORK OF THE PAST YEAR. 

 REIPORTS, AIDS, AND GUIDES. 



Three volumes falling within this division of the Department's work have 

 been published during the year. Prof. Carl R. Fish's "Guide to the materials 

 for American history in Roman and other Italian archives" came from the 



*_Address, 500 Bond Building, Washington, D. C. Grant No. 678. $23,500 for investi- 

 gations and maintenance during 1911. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 3-9.) 



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