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the Secretary of the Treasury, under whose control the present 
office of Standard Weights and Measures comes; to the Superin- 
tendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; to the President 
of the U. S. Senate; to the Speaker of the United States House 
of Representatives ; to the Chairman and members of the Com- 
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, and to any other 
officials or individuals likely to be interested or influential, with a 
request for their codperation in our efforts to secure for the U. S. 
Office of Standard Weights and Measures ample facilities, in point 
of apparatus and working force, to enable that office to comply 
with the requests for the verification of measuring instruments that 
may be made by American scientific workers. 
The Society was adjourned by the presiding officer. 
AMERICAN HISTORY FROM GERMAN ARCHIVES. 
BY J. G@. ROSENGARTEN. 
(Read April 6, 1900.) 
While a body of able historians, McMaster, Rhoades, Fisk, 
Schouler and others, are enriching the world by an admirable series 
of works on American history, there still remains another field for 
historical research of interest and value. There are: in Germany 
many papers dealing with the services of the Germans who were 
here as soldiers under the British flag and took an active and im- 
portant part in the War of American Independence. Bancroft and 
Lowell, Kapp and Ratterman have collected and used such mate- 
rial as they could gather. General Stryker, in his Azstory of the 
Battle of Trenton, has added largely to our stock of material for a 
better knowledge of the contents of the German Archives, still 
carefully preserved at Marburg and Berlin; and other collections of 
German records. It was through Kapp’s labors that Bancroft 
added to his own collections, now belonging to the New York Pub- 
lic Library, and deposited in the Lenox Library of that city. These 
include Steuben’s letters, Riedesel’s papers, the Anspach papers, 
the Brunswick papers, Ewald’s Feldzug der Hessen nach Amertka, 
Geschichte der Hessichen Viger in Amerkanischen Kriege, fourteen 
