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 444- Notes and News known by his monumental Histoirc dc la Participation dc la France a I'Etablissement des £tats-Unis d'Anii-riquc, five vols. (1886-1900), died recently at the age of eighty-eight. M. Albert Reville, professor of the history of religions at the College de France, and author of an Histoire dcs Religions in four volumes (1883-1888), and of many other valuable books in that field and in Protestant theology, died in October, in his eightieth year. Dr. Hans Edler von Zwiedineck-Stidenhorst, professor of history in the University of Graz since 1885, died late in November, aged sixty-one. His leading works, works of great distinction, were: Die Politik der Rcpublik Venedig zfdhrend des dreissigjdhrigen Kricges (1883-1885) ; Deutsche Geschichte ini Zeitraiim der Gri'mdung des preussischen Konig- thmns (1887-1894); and Deutsche Geschichte i8o6-i8yi (1895-1905). He was also the editor of the Bibliothek Deutschcr Geschichte. Geheimer Hofrat Heinrich Gelzer, professor in Jena, editor of Scriptores Sacri et Profani, and considered to be the chief German authority on Byzantine history, died in Jena on July 11, aged fifty-nine. M. Leon Vanderkindere, member of the Belgian Commission Royale d'Histoire and until lately professor in the University of Brussels, died in the early part of November, aged sixty-four. In earlier life he had played a somewhat prominent part in politics. His Siecle dcs Arfeirlde was published in 1879. His other chief historical works were Introduc- tion a I'Histoire des Institutions de la Belgique au Moyen Age, I. ( 1890), and Histoire dc la Formation Tcrritoriale dcs Principautcs Beiges an Moyen Age, I. La Flandre (1899). President Arthur T. Hadley is to be Theodore Roosevelt Professor of American History at the University of Berlin during the academic year 1907-1908. The Managing Committee of the International Congress for Histor- ical Sciences announces that the next meeting will be held in Berlin in the summer of 1908. Although the Chair of Colonial History at Oxford University, established by the late Mr. Alfred Beit, was filled in December. 1905. by the appointment of Mr. H. E. Egerton, who entered upon his duties at Easter, it was not till October of this year, after the appointment in July of his assistant, Mr. W. L. Grant, that the department came into full working order. The last term's work included lectures twice a week by Professor Egerton on " The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century ", and weekly by Mr. Grant on " The French Regime in Canada ". In addition, both the professor and the lecturer receive stu- dents at their rooms during certain hours of the week, and hope gradu- ally to establish a Seminar for advanced work. Before long a subject, dealing probably with the evolution of colonial self-government in Canada, will be added to the list of special subjects, one of which must bo taken ui) bv all Iionor students of modern history in the university.