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 General ^^ 3 and edited and published it at his own expense, giving it liberally to libraries and historical societies. He confined his publication almost entirely to documents from the county records, etc., and did much good work not only for local, but for colonial and state history. Mr. James bequeathed $3,000 to the Virginia Historical Society and about $150,000 to the University of Virginia, which was made his residuary legatee. Mr. William I. Marshall, principal of the Gladstone School in Chi- cago, died on October 30 at the age of sixty-six. He was best known, and performed a useful service to historical science in America, by his untiring efforts to combat in every form the legend respecting " Marcus Whitman's Ride ". Besides writing acute controversial pamphlets upon the subject, he labored unceasingly with the makers of text-books to re- move or exclude the legend from their pages. Mr. John Rogers Williams, prominent in the organization of the Princeton Historical Society and editor of the Journal of Philip Fithian, died at Princeton on October 21. Miss Mary Bateson died in London on December I, in the prime of life and when apparently at the height of her unusual physical and intellectual vigor. The daughter of a master of one of the Cambridge colleges, she was educated at Xewnham, of which she became a fellow and lecturer. Her remarkable talents, her devotion to work, and the force and simplicity of her character, make h<?r loss deeply felt among English historical students. Though not unskilled in other fields, as was shown by an excellent chapter in the American volume of the Cambridge Modern History, her chief repute rested upon a long series of contributions to the medieval history of England, especially to the history of the English municipalities. Her Records of the Borough of Leicester (1899-1905) established an admiration for her scholarship which was more than confirmed by the Borough Customs, issued by the Selden Society (1904-1906), a work of which the Lord Chief Justice declared that it showed her to possess more knowledge of English legal history than nine lawyers out of ten. Lately, as announced in these pages, she had been invited to be one of the three general editors of the proposed Cambridge Mediaeval History. M. Auguste Himly, from 1863 to 1898 professor of geography in the Faculty of Letters at Paris, and dean of the Faculty from 1881 (honor- ary from 1898), died on October 6 in his eighty-fourth year. He was of those who know much but write little. Besides his thesis, on Wala et Louis le Debonnaire, and a few critical articles, he produced only the Histoire de la Formation Territoriale des Stats de I'Europe Centrale (1876; 2nd edition, 1894). This work, however, will doubtless keep his name before students of European history for years to come. Henri Doniol, author or editor of several works relating to French history, among them a history of rural classes in France, two cartular- ies, and 3/. Thiers, President de la Re/^ublique, iSjo-lSjs, but best AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XII. — 20.