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at about the time of Dr. Philbrick's departure. But his designations 

 had been made upon so systematic a plan that it was found possible 

 to carry forward the work of photographing after his return. This the 

 Department has been able to secure through the kind offices of Mrs. 

 Adolph Bandelier. Remaining in Seville since the death of her hus- 

 band, and occupied in part in completing the work upon which he had 

 been engaged under a grant from the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton, Mrs. BandeUer kindly undertook for this Department the super- 

 vision of this work of photography. With some expansion of the plan 

 as first formed, negatives to the number of somewhat more than 2,500 

 have been made by the Seville photographer. These have been shipped 

 in small quantities to Paris, where prints, extremely satisfactory in char- 

 acter, have been made from them by a reliable photographer. Monsieur 

 Louis Doysie. These prints have been shipped to Washington. When 

 the present work in Seville and Paris is brought to an end, soon after 

 the date of this report, by the return of Mrs. Bandelier to the United 

 States, the prints in the hands of the Department will represent the 

 regular series of official civil dispatches sent by the Spanish governor 

 of Louisiana to the Captain General at Havana, from the beginning of 

 the Spanish regime in New Orleans in 1768 to the arrival of Caron- 

 delet as governor, at the beginning of 1792. Ten prints have been 

 made from each negative, and ten series of photographs will shortty 

 be available for any subscribers who may desire to purchase the series 

 at cost. 



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

 the United States, Dr. Charles O. Paulhn, with some clerical assistance, 

 has completed the sketches for two divisions of the Atlas; that which 

 illustrates the history of presidential elections — by plotting, by coun- 

 ties, plurahty votes for presidential candidates, and that which exhibits, 

 by Congressional districts, the votes cast in the House of Representa- 

 tives for or against each one of a selected series of thirty-two important 

 typical measures of national legislation, extending over the period 

 from 1789 to 1915. The maps, in suitable form for execution by 

 photolithography, have been prepared from these sketches by Mr. J. B. 

 Bronson, of the Navy Department. Dr. Paullin has completed the 

 extensive letter-press explanations which will accompany the maps he 

 has thus far made. 



Meanwhile, a large part of the work of preparing certain other sec- 

 tions of the Atlas has been accomplished by Professor R. H. Whitbeck, 

 professor of geography in the University of Wisconsin. During his 

 residence with the Department in Washington he prepared a general 

 base-map, showing contours and elevations, which will underlie many of 

 the maps showing industrial and other economic features of American 

 history, and elaborated maps showing features of physical geography, 

 soil and cUmate, mineral deposits, typical crops, and the development 



