DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.* 

 J. Franklin Jameson, Director. 



The following report, the eighth annual report of the present 

 Director, covers the period from November 1, 1912, to October 31, 

 1913. The regular staff of the Department has during the year been 

 changed only by the accession of Dr. Charles O. Paullin, who in the 

 preceding year had been connected with the work of the Department 

 as a Research Associate, but in January 1913 became definitely a 

 member of the staff. Dr. Paullin is to have general charge of all 

 work upon the proposed Atlas of the Historical Geography of the 

 United States. Professor Max Farrand, of Yale University, Research 

 Associate, who in the last month of the preceding year had begun a 

 period of assistance to the Department in the matter of economic and 

 social geography, continued his aid through November and most of 

 December. Another Research Associate, Professor J. S. Reeves, of the 

 University of Michigan, aided the Department, also in respect to its 

 atlas work, during some five weeks in November and December 1912. 



In March the Director sailed for London to attend the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Historical Studies held there early in April, and 

 after its conclusion spent nearly four weeks in England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, occupied with various business of the Department. 

 Mr. Leland, sailing at the same time, also attended the congress and 

 then, after a week or two in London, repaired to Paris, to continue the 

 labors there which have occupied him at intervals, and during the 

 major portion of his time, for the last six years. Miss Davenport, 

 who had worked in Washington until June, sailed then to London, 

 where she has since been continuing her work. 



The Department has continued to occupy the same quarters which 

 were entered upon at the close of the preceding year, a suite of rooms 

 on the eleventh or highest floor of the Woodward Building. In the 

 middle of June, as usual, its headquarters were removed to North 

 Edgecomb, Maine, where the office work proceeded until the middle 

 of September. 



Statements respecting the general plans of the Department and the 

 purposes which its operations are intended to subserve have been 

 made in former reports. It may be proper to mention that, when 

 honored with an invitation to deliver the annual lecture before the 

 Trustees of the Institution on December 12, 1912, the Director took 

 this occasion to make a public explanation, fuller than any hitherto 



♦Address: 1140 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. Grant No. 862, $29,600 for 

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