REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 117 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary 

 of tlie Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, by J. W. Powell, Director. Part 2. (Navaho 

 Houses, by Cosmos Mindeleff. ) Washington: Government Printing Office. 1898. 

 Royal octavo, pp. 469-752, witli plates Ixxxii-xc, and figures 230-244. 



VII. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



The Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1898 was 

 completed during the year, and the report for 1899 was transmitted to the Public 

 Printer. In the editor's report for last year the contents of the 1898 volume were 

 enumerated. The 1899 re])ort will l)e in two volumes, the second volume compris- 

 ing the correspondence of John ('. Callionn. In the first volume are the following 

 papers: 



Report of Proceedings of Fifteenth Annual Meeting in Boston and Cambridge, 

 December 27-29, 1899, by A. Howard Clark. 



Inaugural Address on History, by James Ford Rhodes, President. 



Removal of Officials by the Presidents of the United States, by Carl Russell Fish. 



Legal Qualifications for Office in America, 1619-1899, by Frank Hayden Miller. 



The Projjosed Absorption of Mexico in 1847—48, by Edward G. Bourne. 



The Problem of Chinese Immigration in Farther Asia, by Frederick Wells Wil- 

 liams. 



The Droit de Banalite during the French Regime in Canada, by W. Bennett 

 Munro. 



The Restoration of the Proprietary in Maryland and the Legislation against the 

 Roman Catholics during the Governorshija of Capt. John Hart (1714-1720), by Bar- 

 nard C. Steiner. 



The First Criminal Code of Virginia, by Walter F. Prince. 



A Critical Examination of Gordon's History of the American Revolution, by Orin 

 Grant Libby. 



A Recent Service of Church History to the Church, by William Given Andrews. 



The Origin of the Local Interdict, by Arthur Charles Howland. 



The Poor Priests: A Study in the Rise of English Lollardry, by Henry Lewin 

 Cannon. 



The Roman City of Langres (France) in the Early INIiddle Ages, by Earle W^ilbur 

 Dow. 



Robert Fruin, 1823-1899: A Memorial Sketch, by Ruth Putnam. 



Sacred and Profane History, by James Harvey Robinson. 



Should Recent European Historj^ have a Place in the College Curriculum? by 

 Charles M. Andrews. 



The Colonial Problem, by Henry E. Bourne. 



A Bibliography of the Study and Teaching of History, by James Ingersoll W^yer. 



Titles of Books on English History published in 1897 and 1898, selected and 

 annotated by W. Dawson Johnston. 



A Bibliography of Mississippi, by Thomas McAdory Owen. 



Bibliography of Publications of the American Historical Association, 1885 to 1900. 



IX. REPORT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



The Second Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution was transmitted to Congress in accordance with the act of incorporation 

 of that body, but as only the regular document edition was printed by Congress no 

 copies were received by the Institution. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. Howard Clark, Editor. 



Mr. S. P.- Langley, 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



