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prospect that the Netherlands might be involved, interrupted Dr. 

 Hull's labors and caused him to deem it prudent to return to the 

 United States. It is a pleasure to mention the kindness with which 

 the custodians of the various state archives in the Netherlands have 

 expressed their wish to aid Dr. Hull's researches. 



Professor Frank A. Golder, on a year's leave of absence from the 

 Washington State College, agreed to spend three months of that time 

 in the service of the Institution preparing a guide to the materials for 

 American history in the archives of Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg 

 early in March, he had at last accounts completed his inquiries in that 

 city, and had proceeded to Moscow, where (speaking in general terms) 

 archival materials ante-dating 1801 are to be found. In the archives 

 of the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg he had examined, from 1804 to 

 the latest date permitted by official regulations, the series entitled 

 "Washington," "Etats-Unis," and "Philadelphie," and the Imperial 

 and Asiatic archives; also the archives of the Ministry of Marine, of the 

 Ministry of Finance, of the Holy Synod, and of the Imperial Council, 

 and the manuscript collections of the Imperial Library and of the St. 

 Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In these various collections he has 

 found copious materials, of considerable importance, for the history 

 of diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia, for the 

 explorations of Bering and others, for the history of the Russian 

 American Com.pany, and for various episodes, such as those connected 

 with John Paul Jones. He has been greatly helped by the kind offices 

 of Mr. Sergius Goriainov, chief archivist of the Foreign Office, of 

 Professor Alexander Lappo-Danilevski, of the Academy of Sciences, 

 who caused the American papers in the archives of Tambov to be 

 brought to that institution for Mr. Golder's use, and of the Archbishop 

 of Warsaw, formerly Bishop of Alaska, through whose means valuable 

 collections of papers relating to the ecclesiastical history of that terri- 

 tory have been thrown open to Mr. Golder's use. He has also inspected 

 an important collection in one of the Russian monasteries, and has 

 supervised the transcribing of historical documents for the Library of 

 Congress. 



In the work for the proposed Atlas of the Historical Geography of 

 the United States, Dr. Paullin, with some clerical assistance, has carried 

 practically to its completion the preparation of the sketches for two 

 divisions of the Atlas. The first is that which illustrates the history 

 of presidential elections, by plotting by counties the votes for those 

 presidential candidates who had a plurality of the popular vote in the 

 respective counties. Where popular votes for presidential electors 

 were lacking their place has been supplied by means of analogous data 

 accumulated by patient search of old election returns in the Library of 

 Congress and in State archives. The second series, nearly concluded, 

 is that exhibiting, by congressional districts, votes cast in the House of 

 Representatives for or against each one of a selected series of 32 im- 



