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Dr. Claude H. Van Tyne and Mr. Waldo G. Leland began a sys- 

 tematic search of the government archives in Washington and the 

 preparation of a detailed report upon their contents. This was a 

 task which stood first among the recommendations of the Advisory 

 Committee on History. But that committee also recommended the 

 establishment in Washington of an institute of historical research, 

 which should organize such searches of archives in Europe and 

 America, edit guides to those archives and volumes of documentary 

 material, and serve as a clearing-house for the historical scholars of 

 the countrj^ In the autumn of 1903 such a bureau was organized, 

 under the charge of Professor Andrew C. McLaughlin, to whom the 

 Department owes all the gratitude that is to be won by a wise and 

 careful laying of foundations for future work, as well as by two years 

 of solid achievement. The present Director and most of the staff 

 have served during the last eight years of the decade, while Mr. 

 Leland's service has extended from January 1903 to the present time. 

 During the ten years (and the next few months) the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington will have issued on behalf of the Depart- 

 ment the following publications, mostly volumes of from 300 to 500 

 pages, octavo: 



Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington, by Claude 



H. Van Tyne and Waldo G. Leland (1904, pp. xiii, 215; second ed., by W. G. 



Leland, 1907, pp. xiii, 327). 

 Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy, 1787-1798, by Ephraim D. Adams (1904, 



pp. 79). 

 Report on the Diplomatic Arcliives of the Department of State, 1789-1840, by Andrew 



C. McLaughlin (1904, pp. 73). 

 Writings on American History, 1903, by Andrew C. McLaughlin, William A. Slade, and 



Ernest D. Lewis (1905, pp. xiv, 172). 

 Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives, by Luis M. Perez (1907, 



pp. X, 142). 

 Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives (Simancas, 



the Archivo Historico Nacional, and Seville) , by WiUiam R. Shepherd (1907, pp. 107.) 

 Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, in the 



British Museum, in Minor London Archives, and in the Libraries of Oxford and 



Cambridge, by Charles M.Andrews and Frances G.Davenport (1908, pp. xiv, 499). 

 List of Documents in Spanish Archives relating to the History of the United States, which 



have been printed or of which Transcripts are Preserved in American Libraries, 



by James A. Robertson (1910, pp. xv, 368). 

 Inventory of Unpubhshed Material for American Religious History in Protestant Church 



Archives and Other Repositories, by William H. Allison (1910, pp. vii, 254). 

 Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Itahan Archives, bv 



Carl R. Fish (1911, pp. ix, 289). 

 Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives relating to the Territories of the United 



States (to 1873), by David W. Parker (1911, pp. 476). 

 Guide to the Manuscript Materials relating to American History in the German State 



Archives, by Marion D. Learned (1912, pp. vii, 352). 

 Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of 



Mexico, by Herbert E. Bolton (1913, pp. xv, 553). 

 Guide to the Materials for United States History in Canadian Archives, by David W. 



Parker (1913, pp. 339). 

 Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of 



Great Britain. 

 Vol. I. The State Papers, by Charles M. Andrews (1912, pp. xi, 346). 

 Vol. II. Departmental Papers and Miscellaneous (1914, pp. 367+). 

 Guide to the Materials in London Archives for the History of the United States since 



1783, by Charles O. Paullin and Frederic L. Paxson (1914, pp. 555+). 



