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to publish in one large volume. In this the contents of each bundle is 

 described, upon a uniform plan, at such length as to constitute about 

 half a page of printed matter. To publish a complete calendar of all 

 these individual documents, approximately 400,000 in number, does 

 not seem to be practicable, but we have such a calendar in manuscript, 

 covering about 143 legajos selected as the most important and em- 

 bracing itemized descriptions of more than 58,000 documents. Mr. 

 Hill's descriptions in the printed book are ingeniously contrived to 

 convey such information respecting each legajo as can be given in half 

 a page, and in the case of the 143 legajos mentioned it will be possible 

 for investigators who need fuller details to consult these itemized lists 

 in the office of the Department, while investigators at a distance can 

 readily secure photostat copies of such portions of the manuscript 

 calendar as they may desire. 



Near the end of the year reported upon, Professor Albert B. Faust, 

 of Cornell University, finished and transmitted to the Department the 

 manuscript of his extensive report upon the materials for American 

 history in the archives of German Switzerland and of Austria, the fruit 

 of his period of investigation in those countries in 1913. These notes, 

 together with those which the Director took in the archives of the 

 French cantons of Switzerland in the summer of 1912, will constitute a 

 printed volume of moderate size. Dr. Faust's manuscript, besides 

 introductions relating to the different aspects in which the Swiss and 

 Austrian materials illustrate the history of the United States, contains 

 full information as to the American contents of the federal archives of 

 Switzerland and of the archives and libraries of the various German 

 cantons, the most extensive being those relative to the cantons of 

 Zurich, Bern, and Basel; also notes from the chief state archives of 

 Vienna, from ministerial and other archives in that city, and from the 

 provincial archives of Salzburg and Innsbruck. They reveal an unex- 

 pected w^ealth of material, illustrative especially of the composition 

 and processes of the German-Swiss emigration to the United States, 

 of Austrian migration before 1848, and of the diplomatic relations 

 between the United States and Austria before that date and between 

 the United States and Switzerland. 



It was mentioned in last year's report that an arrangement had been 

 made with Miss Margaret Adam, holder of a fellowship under the 

 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, whose special subject of 

 investigation is the migration of Scotsmen to America, whereby she 

 would note for us all references of that sort which commonly make the 

 staple of our Guides. As her investigations will necessarily range 

 through the principal archives of Edinburgh, it is believed that what- 

 ever they contain for the purposes of American history will thus be 

 listed in a form which the Department can use, without the necessity of 

 organizing a special mission to Scotland. Miss Adam's first year's 



