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 442 Notes and Nczus training in historical criticism, and were marred by increasing and delu- sive prepossessions against the foes of the Virginia Company; but aH who in future time work in this field will have reason to be deeply grate- ful to Mr. Brown for his services as a discoverer of sources. Rev. Henry M. Baird, professor in the University of New York during forty-three years, 1859-1902, died on November 11, at the age of eighty-four. Though his chair was that of Greek (he was the first American scholar to study extensively in Greece, 1851-1852), his chief writings lay in the field of the history of the French Huguenots. His Rise of the Huguenots of France (1879), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895), are standard works in that field, marked by learning, moderation of view, and excellence of diction. More recently, 1899, he published a volume on Beza. The Reverend Edmund F. Slafter of Boston died during October, aged ninety. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical So- ciety, a corresponding member of the Royal Historical Society, and president of the Prince Society. Among his historical publications may be mentioned Sir William Alexander and American Colonization (1873), Voyages of the Northmen to America (1877), his memoir of Champlain (1878), and John Checkley, or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Alassachusctts Bay (1897), all issued by that society. George R. Fairbanks died last August at his summer home at Sewanee, Tennessee, at the age of eighty-six. He was born in Water- town, New York, in 1820, graduated from Union College, was admitted to the New York bar, and in 1842 removed to the territory of Florida, where was his home, first at St. Augustine, later at Fernandina, for sixty-four years. His historical writings of most note are History and Antiquities of St. Augustine (1858), reissued, with additions, in 1868 as The Spaniards in Florida, etc.; History of Florida, 151 2-1842 (1871) ; Florida, its History and Romance, i^py-iSgS (1898) ; and History of the University of the South (1905). At the time of his death Major Fair banks was president of the Florida Historical Society and an honorary member of the New York Historical Society. His historical library, rich in material on the early history of Florida, was bequeathed to the Uni- versity of the South. Reverend Robert R. Howison died at his home in Spottsylva- nia County, Virginia, on November 2, at the age of eighty-six. His principal historical work was his two-volume History of Virginia (1846- 1848), the most comprehensive history of that state yet published. Mr. Edward Wilson James of Norfolk, Virginia, a member of the council of the Virginia Historical Society, died on October 21. Mr. James commenced in 1895 the publication of The Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Antiquary, devoted to the history of the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and the adjoining counties of Norfolk and Princess Anne,