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of selected industries, during various periods of American history. 

 During the summer, at Madison, he nearly completed the series of 

 maps showing the growth, in successive decades, of railroad and other 

 lines of transportation. A large map, showing oceanographic data 

 related to American history, has been prepared for the Department by 

 Mr. G. W. Littlehales, of the Hydrographic Office in the Navy Depart- 

 ment. Arrangements have been made for the speedy securing of an 

 adequate map of the geology of the United States, containing the 

 results of the most recent researches, and of a series of maps, prepared 

 under official auspices, exhibiting densities of population at the time 

 of each United States census. 



TEXTUAL PUBLICATIONS OF DOCUMENTS. 



The first volume of Dr. Frances G. Davenport's collection of "Treat- 

 ies between European powers, relating to American history," extending 

 through the treaties of 1648, has been completed in manuscript, so 

 far as her owm work is concerned, and will shortly be made ready in 

 all respects for printing. Beginning with the papal bulls of the fif- 

 teenth century relating to America, documents having an international 

 character analogous to that of treaties, this work presents, as its main 

 substance, the texts of all those European treaties or parts of treaties 

 which have a bearing upon the liistory of America. These texts, 

 usually printed with considerable inaccuracy, and for the most part to 

 be found only in expensive printed collections, or in some cases only in 

 manuscript, have for the purposes of the present work been prepared 

 by careful collation of the original manuscript ratifications in various 

 European archives. Careful introductions to each document explain 

 its relation to the liistory of America, and trace the gradual develop- 

 ment of European pohcy respecting the New World. Proper annota- 

 tions and Usts of bibhographical references accompany each document. 



The volumes of ''Letters of delegates to the Continental Congress" 

 have received some augmentation in text from the addition of letters 

 which have come to Ught during the year. Especial thanks are due 

 to Mr. George S. Godard, Librarian of the Connecticut State Library, 

 and to the owners of the Joseph Trumbull Collection, recently deposited 

 in that institution, for the opportunity to take additional texts from 

 that collection. The main work of the last year has been that of 

 annotation, by Dr. E. C. Burnett, who has completed this process to 

 the end of the year 1776. 



In respect to the series of ''Proceedings and Debates of Parhament 

 respecting North America, from 1585 to 1783," the journals of the 

 Irish House of Lords have been searched to 1783 and the appropriate 

 entries selected, by Mr. L. F. Stock, editor of this series. The copying 

 of the selected items from the journals of the Irish House of Conmions 

 has been finished. Thus that part of the text which consists of par- 



