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 America 463 work of this sort. Mr. Perez's report on the Cul)an archives, and the second edition, revised and enlarged, of Messrs. Van Tyne and Leiand's Guide to the Archives of the Government at Washington, are ready for the press. Mr. Andrews's report, supplemented by Miss Davenport's researches in London, approaches completion. Progress on other volumes continues. Preparations are being made for the compiling of a complete and scholarly edition of all the debates in Parliament on matters relating to the British colonies in America (to 1783). The first annual report of the present director, separately reprinted from the fifth Ycar-Book of the institution, will soon be sent to those most interested. Volume I. of the Annual Report of the American Historical Asso- ciation for 1905 has just been issued from the Government Printing Office. It contains, in addition to the account of the Baltimore meetings, the following articles and reports : " Old Standards of Public Morals ", being the presidential address of J. B. McMaster ; " Virginia and the English Commercial System, 1730-1733 ", by St. George L. Sioussat; " Why North Carolina at First Refused to Ratify the Federal Constitu- tion ", by C. L. Raper; "The First Lord Baltimore and His Colonial Projects", by B. C. Steiner; "The Authorship of the Monroe Doctrine", by James Schouler ; " Origin of the National Land System under the Confederation", by P. J. Treat; " Slavery in California after 1848", by C. A. Duniway ; the reports of the conference on the first year of college work in history and of the conference of state and local historical socie- ties ; a report, by Messrs. Thwaites, Shambaugh, and Riley, on " Methods of Organization and Work of State and Local Historicaf Societies " ; a report of the proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch, and the report of the Public Archives Commission. In this last are included Reports upon the historic buildings, monuments, and local archives of St. Augustine, Florida, by D. Y. Thomas, the French archives of Illinois, by C. W. Alvord, the work of the Public Records Commission of Maryland, by Mrs. H. D. Richardson, the state archives of W^isconsin, by C. R. Fish, and a supplementary report upon the state archives of Michigan, by J. L. Conger. Volume II. of the Report is to comprise A. P. C. Griffin's revised bibliography of the publications of historical societies. The Fifteenth International Congress of Americanists met, accord- ing to announcement, in Quebec, September 10 to 15. Amongst th-: numerous papers submitted, a selection for individual notice is difficult. The delegate of the French government at the Congress, Professor Leon Lejeal of the College of France, together with M. Eric Boman, member of the French Scientific Mission to South America, supplied a paper on the Question Calchaquic; they uphold the conclusion, supported on the part of AI. Boman by researches in the field, that this civilization, which is commonly held to be an independent development, is only a branch of the Ando-Peruvian. Professor Chamberlain of Clark University pre-