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should be supplied by the use of documents from one or another of 

 three existing collections of transcripts of similar character preserved 

 elsewhere in the United States. These are the collection also made 

 by Dr. Bandelier, which resulted from the Hemenway Expedition 

 of 1887, and which is now in the possession of the Peabody Museum 

 of Archaeology at Cambridge; the great collection of Spanish tran- 

 scripts accumulated by Mr. Edward E. Ayer of Chicago; and that 

 preserved in the Bancroft Library at the University of California. 

 To fill gaps of the kind indicated above, Dr. Hackett was asked to 

 designate a limited number of documents from these collections which, 

 with the permission of the owners, might be included in the volumes 

 which he is preparing. With gratifying liberality, the desired per- 

 missions were readily accorded by Mr. Ayer and by the authorities 

 of the Peabody Museum and the Bancroft Library, and arrangements 

 have been made for the procuring of copies. 



It is estimated that, texts and translations together, the collection 

 will make three or four volumes of the ordinary size of the Institu- 

 tion's publications. Although they will be somewhat lacking in unity 

 and completeness, as is natural from the method by which the original 

 expedition was planned, nevertheless they will cast much new light 

 on early Pueblo and other Southwestern history. One section, of 

 much interest, consists of authentic reports concerning the services 

 and merits of discoverers and conquistadores in New Spain, beginning 

 with companions of Cortes. Another consists of documents relating 

 to the administration of the Indies in the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries. The largest body relates to the conquest and subsequent 

 internal affairs of New Mexico, extending over the whole period from 

 1593 to 1773. Other sections relate to the affairs of Nueva Galicia, 

 Nueva Vizcaya, and adjacent regions. All Professor Hackett's pro- 

 ceedings thus far have been systematic and prompt, and, in view of 

 his known scholarship in the field in question, a publication highly 

 creditable to the Institution is to be expected. 



PLANS FOR 1919. 



War-time conditions make it in large degree futile to attempt to 

 predict what progress the Department may be able to make in the 

 next twelve months. It will certainly do all it can to aid the National 

 Board for Historical Service in any ways the Board may desire; but 

 in view of the constantly changing phases of the war, no one can say 

 what aspects of the Board's work for Government or country will 

 require the greatest emphasis, what sort of services the staff of the 

 Department will from time to time feel called upon to render to it, 

 or how much time will be left them to spend upon those regular 

 tasks to which in happier times they would entirely devote themselves. 

 The most the Department can promise is to make what progress is 



