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its use in any library which may purchase a series of the photographs. 

 Ten prints have been made from each negative, and ten series of 

 photographs are available for purchase by institutions or individuals in 

 America. The series is arranged in chronological order, and presents 

 remarkably few gaps. Sets will be sold at the cost of the photographic 

 work and printing. 



Professor Frank A. Golder's Guide to the Materials for American 

 History in the Archives of Russia now stands entirely ready in proof, 

 and will be issued as soon as the index, finished in manuscript, 

 can be printed and the volumes bound. It constitutes a volume 

 of 177 pages, treating in methodical order the American contents of 

 each of the many archives in Petrograd and Moscow. The documents 

 for American history in these archives, it should be pointed out, while 

 in some cases available only to those who read Russian, are in at least 

 as many instances written in French. This is especially true of the 

 documents in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which 

 illustrate in the fullest manner the diplomatic relations, highly 

 important at several periods, between Russia and the United States. 

 These papers Mr. Golder was pennitted to examine down to 1854, 

 while in several other ministries, notably that of Marine, his permis- 

 sions extended much farther. Naturally, the two chief matters of 

 American history upon which light may be obtained from the Russian 

 archives are the mutual diplomatic relations between the two govern- 

 ments, and the history of Russian America. Upon the latter subject, 

 while the archives of the Russian American Company have in the main 

 disappeared, there is in various archives a great amount of valuable 

 material, covering the whole history of Russian expansion in the 

 Pacific from the times of Bering till the cession of Russian America to 

 the United States in 1867. As the development of the Pacific coast 

 comes to its true place in the history of the United States, such materials 

 as Mr. Golder has discovered and noted will be rightly appreciated. 

 It is proper to acknowledge the generous aid, in the revision of a 

 portion of the manuscript, received from Professor Alexander Lappo- 

 Danilevskii, of the Petrograd Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Leland has devoted a large part of the year to working over the 

 notes which he took during his various expeditions to Paris, to serve 

 as a basis for a guide to the manuscript materials for American history 

 in the archives and libraries of that city. The work, it will be re- 

 membered, was interrupted by the advent of the war and the closing 

 of certain archives, at a time when small but significant portions 

 of several of them still remained to be covered. Those notes which 

 Mr. Leland has nearly ready for the press are those relating to certain 

 materials in the Foreign Office, the jVIinistry of the Colonies, and the 

 Archives Nationales. During the latter part of the year, however, it 

 has been decided that a volume on the historical manuscripts relating to 

 America in the Parisian libraries can be prepared for publication, even 



