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 America 473 The Virginia Historical Society is just completing a manuscript in- dex to the volume of Virginia General Court Minutes, 1670-1676, which is in its library. It will not be published, but will be available there to all who may wish to use it. The Virginia State Library has in preparation, in the Division of Bibliography, a calendar of the Richmond Enquirer, which will contain entries for signed articles, editorials, obituaries, etc. The same division has under way a bibliography of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers concerning Virginia, which will constitute a contribution to the ten-volume bibliography of Virginia projected by the Library. In the Department of Archives and History the mass of material owned by the state is being rapidly arranged and filed. The specific task under way at present is a calendar of all petitions that have been presented by the various towns and counties since 1773. A calendar of the George Rogers Clark papers is also in preparation, and a calendar to land grants of the colonial period. The William and Mary College Quarterly for October presents en- tertaining material in the continuation (August 4-7, 1775) of the "Jour- nal of the President and Masters of William and Mary College " ; and two letters written by James Lyon from the Camp before Yorktown, October 7 and 17, 1781. Jefferson, Cabell, and the University of J'irginia, by John S. Patton (New York and Washington, Neale Publishing Company, 1906, pp. 380). contains an account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the institution's early history, a description of the Jeffersonian buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university's development, to- gether with lists of honor and prize students, orators, participants in the Civil War, etc. Volumes III. and IV. of the Biographical History of North Carolina, edited by Samuel A. Ashe (Greensboro, N. C, C. L. Van Noppen), maintain the high standard of excellence established in the first two volumes. In the third volume the sketches of Martin Howard, R. Howell, and Francis Nash bear on the Regulators, and point out that that movement had no connection with the Revolution. Of interest for the Revolutionary period are the accounts of Joseph Hewes, Robert Bur- ton, George Farragut, and Alexander Lillington, while among the sketches bearing on later history those of R. M. Saunders, Holden, Turner, and North are especially noteworthy. Volume IV. opens with the sketches of Raleigh and Virginia Dare, and note should be made of the articles on John Ashe, Samuel Johnston, Allen Jones, Macon, and A. D. Murphy. Miss Adelaide L. Fries has been printing from month to month, in the Wachovia Moravian (Winston-Salem, N. C), a translation of the now famous document by Traugott Bagge. It will be remembered that