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report contains the proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting December 28-30, 

 1897, by Herbert B. Adams, Secretary; report of the Treasurer; list of Committees 

 and Officers; Inaugural Address of James Schouler, President, on a New Federal 

 Convention; John Cabot and the Study of Sources, by George Parker Winship; 

 To What extent may Undergraduate Studeuts of History be Trained in the use of the 

 Sources, by James A. Woodburn ; The Functions of State and Local Historical Socie- 

 ties, with respect to Research and Publication, by J. F. Jameson; State- Supported 

 Historical Societies and their Functions, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; History iu the 

 German Gymnasia, by Lucy Maynard Salmon; Discussion of the Relation of the 

 Teaching of Economic History to the Teaching of Political Economy, by Henry B. 

 Gardner, George W. Knight, and Henry R. Seager; Introduction to Southern Eco- 

 nomic History : The Land System, by James Curtis Ballagh ; Mirabeau and Calonne in 

 1785, by Fred Morrow Fling: Some of the Consequences of the Louisiana Purchase, 

 by Samuel M. Davis; National Politics and the Admission of Iowa into the Union, 

 by James A. James; Spanish Policy iu Mississippi after the Treaty of San Lorenzo, 

 by Franklin C. Riley; Cuba and Anglo-American Relations, by James Morton Calla- 

 han; The Diplomacy of the United States in regard to Cuba, by John H. Latane; 

 The Protestant Revolution in Maryland, by Beruard C. Steiner; European Blue 

 Laws, by John Martin Vincent; The Founding of the German Reformed Church in 

 America by the Dutch, by James I. Good; First Suggestions of a National Observa- 

 tory, 1825, by James C. Courtenay; Second Annual Report of the Historical Manu- 

 scripts Commission of the American Historical Association, containing listof Sessions 

 and Journals of Colonial Assemblies, Letters of Phineas Bond (concluded), and 

 Mangourit Correspondence; Guiana and Venezuela Cartography,by P. Lee Phillips; 

 and Bibliography of Alabama, by Thomas M. Owen. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. Howard Clark, Editor. 



Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



