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negatives, it would be possible, though at greater expense, to furnish 

 additional series of prints to other institutions which may desire them. 

 It is also possible to fiu-nish additional copies of the calendar to any 

 institutions or persons to whom such a list would be of service. 



The "Guide to the Materials for American History in the Archives 

 of Russia," prepared for the Institution by Professor Frank A. Golder, of 

 the Washington State College, was issued in February, as a volume 

 of 177 pages. An outline of its contents, which have their chief value 

 to the students of diplomatic relations between the United States and 

 Russia and of the history of Russian America, was presented in the 

 last report. In January, Mr. Golder again went to Russia, and has 

 been there throughout the intervening months, including the period of 

 the Russian revolution. While his present journey was not made at 

 the instance or on the account of the Carnegie Institution, it is proper 

 to mention in these pages the facilities granted him by the Russian 

 government for the further prosecution of the task originally under- 

 taken for the Institution. In respect to the archives of the Ministry 

 of Foreign Affairs, containing the materials illustrating the diplomatic 

 relations between Russia and the United States, Mr. Golder 's permits 

 extended to the year 1854. Before he started upon his present expedi- 

 tion the Russian government extended this privilege to the year 1870, 

 and a further extension was granted after his arrival in Petrograd, 

 so that he has been enabled to continue his studies through an inter- 

 esting additional period of the international relations named; and these 

 results, we may hope, it will be possible for the Institution, at some 

 time, to place before those students who are interested in the field, as a 

 supplement to the sections relating to it in the volume lately pubhshed. 



From the first of November until early in May Mr. Leland continued 

 his work upon his "Guide to Materials for American History in the 

 Archives of Paris." He was still occupied with the editing of his notes 

 on the manuscripts of the Bibliotheque National when, in May, he 

 was appointed secretary of the National Board for Historical Service, 

 an organization formed in order to coordinate, for the benefit of the 

 Government and the public, the services which historical scholars can 

 render to either in war-time. Since May Mr. Leland has given all 

 of his time to its affairs. 



In the last month of the year reported upon, October, Mrs. N. 

 M. Miller Surrey, author of a book on the "Commerce of Louisiana, 

 1699-1763," and well acquainted, by personal researches, with those 

 materials in the French archives which relate to the history of the 

 Mississippi Valley, began the work of editing the body of notes upon 

 such materials which during several years preceding the summer of 

 1914 had been taken by various assistants, under Mr. Leland's super- 

 vision, with a \dew to the composition of a calendar of all such papers. 



