20 TWO SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



In the Seminar for the execution of practical work 

 in connection with the transcription and editing of 

 Historical Texts, good progress has been made with 

 the preparation of an important " Formula Book," 

 and arrangements will, it is hoped, be shortly com- 

 pleted for enabling the first part to be sent to press. 



The attendances at the lectures and in the Seminar 

 have been good, and the annexed list of the forty- 

 students, who have entered during the session, will 

 show the value of the instruction given. 



A considerable number of students have also 

 attended my course of lectures, and the class in 

 Palaeography and Diplomatic m the London School 

 of Economics. Three of the students who have 

 attended the lectures received the degree of D.Sc. 

 (Econ.) in the University of London in May last, in 

 connection with Theses which will shortly be published. 

 Several others are engaged in the preparation of Theses 

 for the degrees of D.Sc. or M.A. under my direction. 



During Whitsun week a large party of my students 

 met me in Paris by previous arrangement, for the 

 purpose of inspecting the Archives Nationales and 

 the Bibliotheque Nationale^ and thanks to the arrange- 

 ments kindly made by M. Charles Bemont, secretary 

 of the Ecole des Chartes and directeur-adjoint of the 

 Ecole des Hautes Etudes, we had the benefit of the 

 expert guidance of several distinguished officials and 

 professors whose description of the MSS. and books 

 exhibited for our inspection was greatly appreciated 

 by their visitors. We were also privileged to go over 

 the Ecole des Chartes, where the students were seen 

 at work, and the arrangements made for their in- 

 struction were explained to us. An account of this 

 visit has been published in the Athenceum (June 1st) 

 and in the Journal des D chats (May 29th). 



I propose during next session to begin Part II. of 

 the Course of Lectures already authorised by the 

 Director. In this course I propose to deal with those 



