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 938 Notes and News ship at Newnham College, and that history shall always be one among the subjects for which it can be obtained. Dr. Whitehead and Mr. Lapsley, both of Trinity College, Cambridge, were appointed joint secretaries and treasurers. Dr. F. J. Haverfield, the leading English authority on Roman Britain, has been appointed -to the Camden Professorship vacant by the death of Professor H. F. Pelham. Professor Paul Vinogradoff of O.xford University has been for some weeks in this country. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin. The committee for the Berlin International Historical Congress has issued a circular preliminary to the detailed programme which will be sent out at the beginning of next year. The Congress will meet from August 6 to 12, 1908, and will be divided into eight sections: History of the Orient, Greece and Rome, Political History of Middle Ages and of Modern Times, Cultural and Intellectual History of the Middle Ages and Modern Times, Legal and Economic History, Church History, History of Art, Supplementary Branches (Archives and Libraries, Chronology, Diplomacy, Epigraphy, Genealogy, Historical Geography, Heraldics, Numismatics, Palaeography, Sphragistics). The proceed- ings will be conducted in the German, English, French, Italian, or Latin languages. The membership fee will be twenty marks. The executive committee consists of Dr. Reinhold Koser, director of the Prussian archives, Professors Eduard Meyer and Wilamowitz-Moellen- dorf of the University of Berlin. The secretary is Dr. Erich Caspar, Berlin, W. 15, Kaiserallee 17. LTnder the auspices of the Societe Prehistorique de France a third Prehistoric Congress will be held at Autun, in Burgundy, from August 13 to 18. The main topic of the congress will be primitive camps and fortifications, for the study of which Autun is the most important centre in France. The Exhibition of the Order of the Golden Fleece, covering the period from 1429 till 1598, and comprising portraits, pictures, armor, medals, manuscripts, illuminations, books, etc., concerning the Knights of the Order, will begin in Bruges on June 15, and will remain open for three months. A circular respecting advanced historical teaching in the L'niversity of London (London School of Economics) gives particulars of the courses offered by Mr. Hubert Hall, in which, during the last few years, a considerable number of American graduate students have re- ceived training. The instruction is of both a theoretical and practical character, including lectures on palaeography, diplomatic, and historical sources; the study and deciphering of medieval Latin and French manuscripts, and of vernacular and official writing to the eighteenth century; the inspection of manuscripts and books by visits to the puldic