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pared a special exhibit of documents and relics pertaining to American 

 history. 



Under the act of incorporation the association deposits its collections 

 in the National Museum. During - this fiscal year there have been re- 

 ceived for storage several thousand volumes and pamphlets published 

 by the association since its organization in ISSi, besides a consider- 

 able number of books and pamphlets presented to the association and 

 forming the nucleus of a historical library. 



The programme of the annual meeting held December 29-31, 1891, 

 was as follows: 



Inaugural Address. By Hou. William Wirt Henry, of Richmond, Va., President 

 of the association. 



The Virginia Secession Movement. The Convention of 1861. By Dr. Jeffrey R. 

 Brackett, of Baltimore. 



A Few Facts from the Records of an Old Virginia County. By President Lyon G. 

 Tyler, of William and Mary College 



The Earliest Texas. By Mrs. Lee C. Harhy, of New York City. 



Henry Clay, the First Political Speaker of the House. By Miss Mary Parker 

 Follett, Harvard "Annex." 



Gov. William Leete and the Absorption of New Haven Colony by Connecticut. By 

 Dr. B. C. Steiner, Williams College, Massachusetts. 



Lord Lovelace. By Gen. James Grant Wilson, president, New York Genealogical 

 and Biographical Society. 



Once Famous Louisbourg and Memorials of the French Regime in Cape Breton. 

 By J.,G. Bourinot, C. M. G., LL. D., D. C. L., Ottawa, Canada, 



Enforcement of the Slave Trade Laws. By W. E. B. Du Bois, A. M., Rogers 

 Memorial Fellow, Harvard University. 



Lotteries in American History. By Hou, A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, 

 Washington, 1). C. 



Some Characteristics of Boston Puritans. By Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard 

 University. 



Parliamentary Government in Canada. By J. G. Bourinot, C. M. G., LL. D., 

 I). C. L., Ottawa, Canada. 



Slavery in the Territories, Historically Considered. By President James C. Well- 

 ing, of the Colnmbian University, Washington, 1). C. 



Historic Portraits of Benjamin Franklin. Illustrated. By Clarence Winthrop 

 Bowen, Ph. D., New York. 



The History of the Irish Land Legislation. By Prof. William A. Dunning, of Co- 

 lumbia College, New York City. 



Phenomena of Universal Suffrage. By Brooks Adams, Quincy, Mass. 



The Treaty-Making Power under the Constitution. By Judge Charles B. Elliott, 

 Ph. D., Law School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 



The United States and International Arbitrations. By Prof. John Bassett Moore, 

 of Columbia College, New York City. 



Visitorial Statutes of Audover Seminary. By Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, law de- 

 partment, Yale University. 



State Sovereignty in Wisconsin. By Albert H. Sanford,, B. L. of the University 

 of Wisconsin. (To be read by Prof. C. H. Haskius.) 



Commerce and Industry of Florence during the Renaissance. By Dr. Walter B. 

 Scaife, Pittsburg, Pa. 



The Present Status of the Subject of pre-Columbian Discovery by the Norsemen. 

 By James Phinney Baxter, esq., Portland, Me. 



