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will be expedient to print these lists, but they will be retained in the 

 office of the Department, where they can at any time be consulted by 

 inquirers into Spanish- American historj', and photostat copies of any 

 series of them can be furnished at a cheap rate to investigators at a 

 distance. The obliging kindness of Sefior Don Pedro Torres Lanzas, 

 chief director of the Archives of the Indies, and of his chief assistant, 

 Senor Don Jose Gonzalez Verger, and other assistants and of the 

 American consul in Seville, Mr. Charles S. Winans, continued 

 throughout the entire period of Mr. Hill's residence in Seville, and 

 deserves grateful recognition on the part of the Department. 



Mr. Hill also, with the Department's camera, specially constructed 

 for archive use, made photographs of some 200 documents in the 

 same section of the Archives of the Indies, selected as representative 

 of what is historically most interesting in that section. The nega- 

 tives of these photographs are in the office of the Department, and 

 prints can be made from them for any libraries, archives, or indi- 

 viduals that may desire them. 



In March Professor Albert B. Faust, of Cornell University, began 

 a period of nearly six months of interesting activity on behalf of the 

 Department, in the search for material for American history in the 

 archives of German Switzerland and of Austria. Some of these 

 archives have proved to be unexpectedly rich in American material, 

 especially material relating to the process of Germanic migration 

 to the United States. Beginning in Vienna, Dr. Faust found an 

 especial abundance of material in the Haus-, Hof-, und Staats- 

 archiv, including reports to Metternich from the diplomatic rep- 

 resentatives of Austria in the United States from 1819 to 1847, the 

 date fixed as the limit for such investigations in Austrian archives. 

 Materials in regard to emigration and commerce were also found here. 

 In the Hofkammerarchiv papers respecting commercial relations 

 were numerous. In the archives of the Ministry of the Interior 

 the records of Metternich's pohce w^ere particularly interesting. 

 The archives of the Ministry of War and those of the city of Vienna 

 also proved to be profitable. Grateful acknowledgments for facili- 

 ties offered and courtesies extended are due to Hofrath Arpad von 

 Karolyi and Sektionsrat Dr. Hanns Schlitter, director and vice- 

 director of the first of the archives named, and to Dr. Ludwig von 

 Thalloczy, Professor Dr. Heinrich Kretschmayr, General Woinovich 

 von Belobreska, and Dr. Hermann Hango, directors of the second 

 (Hofkammerarchiv), third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. 



In Austria Dr. Faust likewise inspected the archives of Salzburg, 

 from which occurred the great emigration of Protestants which has 

 so much importance for the early history of Georgia, and those of 

 Innsbruck. In Bern he found a mine of information in the Staats- 

 archiv, or archives of the canton, and in the Bundesarchiv or federal 



