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TEXTS. 



Dr. Burnett will expend as large a part of his time as is possible upon 

 his "Letters of delegates to the Continental Congress"; Miss Daven- 

 port will give all of her time to the book of treaties, hoping to complete 

 it to 1713, the year of the treaties of Utrecht, before the end of the 

 year. The work upon the "Proceedings and debates in Parliament 

 respecting North America" will consist in constituting, to as late a 

 period in colonial history as time permits, the texts of the Parha- 

 mentary debates respecting America. It is also planned that most if 

 not all of the appropriate material in Cavendish's reports of debates, 

 and other manuscript materials in the British Museum, shall before the 

 end of the year be copied for the purposes of our compilation. 



MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS. 



The Department will no doubt maintain, in 1915, activities similar 

 to those described above, under this heading, in that portion of this 

 report which relates to the last twelve months. It is confidently 

 believed that the presence of Admiral Mahan as a Research Associate 

 will stimulate all the work of the Department. It will certainly cause 

 all those who are occupied in its activities to appreciate more vividly 

 the relation of those activities to the work of historians and to the 

 general progress of historical study and literature. 



