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be made of this section of the Pubhc Record Office in respect to one 

 of the sections of the proposed compilation. 



MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS. 



As heretofore, the editing of the "American Historical Review" 

 has been carried on in the office of the Department and by its staff. 

 The lecture given before the Trustees in December, by the Director, 

 has already been referred to, as also his participation in the quin- 

 quennial International Congress of Historical Studies at London, of 

 which he was made one of the vice-presidents. In this congress he 

 read a paper on "Typical Steps of American Expansion." Mr. 

 Leland's supervision of the calendaring of the papers in the French 

 archives relating to the history of the Mississippi Valley, for a group 

 of American historical organizations, has been accompanied by vari- 

 ous similar services rendered by him to the State of Mississippi, the 

 Michigan Historical Commission, and various individual American 

 investigators in Paris. The State of Illinois has published, as the 

 chief component part of the "Report of the State Education Building 

 Commission to the Forty-Eighth General Assembly," Mr. Leland's 

 "Report on the public archives of historical interest to the State of 

 Illinois with special reference to the proposed education building," 

 made by him at the instance of the commission named. He has also 

 prepared for the "Revue Historique" a general survey of recent 

 American historical literature. 



As in previous years, searches and copies have been made by the 

 Department, or under its supervision, for various historical societies 

 and for many individuals. Letters of inquiry as to historical papers 

 in Washington and other matters have been answered with the usual 

 freedom. The Director has, as a matter of course, done what he 

 could in small miscellaneous ways to further the interests in Wash- 

 ington of the American Historical Association and of American 

 historical scholars, and has endeavored to mediate between them and 

 foreign archives and other remote sources of historical information 

 whenever occasion arose. For instance, the Deputy Keeper of the 

 Enghsh Public Records has been furnished with a copy of our list of 

 eighteenth-century documents from English archives which have 

 been printed in American historical works. 



RETROSPECT, 1903-1913. 



The definite establishment of the Department of Historical 

 Research, then called Bureau of Historical Research, occurred in the 

 autumn of 1903. It may therefore be appropriate to take the pres- 

 ent occasion for a brief survey of the work which it has accomplished 

 during its first ten years. Organized historical work on the part of 

 the Carnegie Institution had, however, already begun in January 

 1903, when, under plans formulated by Mr. Worthington C. Ford, 



