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archives (for the period since 1798), and expresses special indebted- 

 ness to Professor Dr. Heinrich Tiirler and Dr. G. Kurz, archivist and 

 subarchivist of the former, and to Dr. Jakob Kaiser, director of the 

 latter. Of the other cantonal archives those of Basel and Zurich 

 seem to have contained the largest amount of material on Swiss 

 emigration to America; but the archives of all the lesser German 

 cantons were searched, and the whole history of the movement of 

 population from German Switzerland to America was thoroughly 

 inquired into. Everywhere the cantonal archivists showed cordial 

 courtesy and deserve our best thanks. 



^Vliile the Director was in Great Britain he made at Edinburgh 

 preliminary inquiries as to a future report upon materials for Ameri- 

 can history in the general archives of Scotland. By the kindness of 

 Professor P. Hume Brown he was able to make an arrangement for 

 this purpose with Miss Margaret Adam, holder of a fellowship under 

 the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, whose special 

 subject of investigation is the migration of Scotsmen to America. In 

 the course of this investigation, which will necessarily range through 

 the principal Edinburgh archives, Miss Adam will note all references 

 of that sort which commonly make the staple of our Guides, and will 

 thus provide us with the materials for a similar manual relative to the 

 Scottish archives. 



Prehminary inquiries of a similar sort into the national archives 

 of Ireland were made by the Director at Dublin. He also, at the 

 Pubhc Record Office in London, made some examination of the books 

 of the Royal African Company and of the Port Books of the English 

 customs establishment, for possible future purposes. 



The work of Professor Farrand and Dr. Paullin upon the Atlas of 

 the Historical Geography of the United States consisted, during the 

 former's period of residence, in the planning of the series of maps 

 exhibiting the economic and social history of the country, and in the 

 endeavor to locate the abundant but scattered materials for this 

 purpose which are to be found in the government departments in 

 Washington. During a part of the same period Professor Reeves 

 and Dr. Paullin worked together upon problems connected with the 

 mapping of the international boundaries of the United States and of 

 the disputes respecting them since 1782. From January to June 

 Dr. Paulhn's work consisted first in preparing an elaborate project 

 for the contents of the atlas, and then in constructing maps of states 

 showing the votes at presidential elections. These successive maps 

 are now completed so as to be ready for the draftsman, to the extent of 

 at least a third of the States. In October, Dr. Paullin resumed this 

 work. He has also prepared a paper on the materials for the atlas, 

 to be read at the meeting of the American Historical Association in 

 December, in the hope of eliciting profitable discussion of sources. 



