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stall in Paris, and he printed it, both in the original French and 
in an English translation, for the first time in Boston in 1868. 
His notes, etc., give it a special interest and make it a valuable 
addition to contemporary records of our Revolutionary history. 
To overlook this great merit and assign the printing of the Jour- 
nal of Deux-Ponts to an unknown publication in Paris in 1781 is 
an inexcusable blunder. How it occurred it is difficult to explain— 
whether it was an error in the transcription of the real date of pub- 
lication, 1868, and of the place as well as the time of printing, or a 
mistake for some other pamphlet, but it is now a simple duty to cor- 
rect the error and to emphasize the fact that we owe the preservation 
of the Deux-Ponts Journal and its publication to Dr. Green and to 
him alone. It was not printed in Paris in 1786, nor anywhere at 
any time, until Dr. Green found it, rescued it and printed it in 
Boston in 1868, with a wealth of valuable material in the notes, 
etc., that could be gathered only by a ripe scholar thoroughly mas- 
‘ter of all the history of the pertod covered by the Deux-Ponts Jour- 
nal. It is only one of a long series of valuable historical contribu- 
tions made by Dr. Green, for both as a student and scholar and as 
the Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society, he has been 
one of the most intelligent and industrious collectors of original 
material for American history. ‘To take away from such a man the 
credit due him for the preservation and publication of the Deux- 
Ponts Journal by a careless misprint and misstatement is a blunder 
that calls for an apology from the person who perpetrated the error ; 
he therefore asks leave to print and put on record in the PROCEED- 
INGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, where his mistake 
was put in print, this correction. Dr. Green is entitled to all the 
credit for finding, editing and printing the Deux-Ponts Journal in 
Boston in 1868. 
The Society was adjourned by the presiding officer. 
