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 1922 SHORT NOTICES 627 the array granted by the Black Prince to William Jodrell in 1355, and adds an account of the prince's seals. J. In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for April 1922 Dr. H. B. Morse gives a lucid account from the original records of the methods used by the East India Company to provide at Canton the funds necessary for its China trade in the eighteenth century. Both the statistics and their interpretation make valuable, if rather technical, contributions to the history of British trade. K. We are heartily glad to welcome, for its possibilities even more than for its achievements, The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, the organ of a board set up in the University of Wales. Two parts of the first volume have now appeared (London : Milford, 1921-2). The Bulletin is divided into three sections, ' Language and Literature ', ' History and Law ', ' Archaeology and Art '. The second and third sections, with which alone this Eeview is concerned, stand in rather strong contrast. The section ' Archaeology and Art ' is intended to be a ' running index ' which will co-ordinate and facilitate reference to the work done in all fields of Welsh archaeology since 1914. The result is a number of tabulated lists of excavations and discoveries, and a bibliography,, which are all extremely useful. So far, however, the only branch of ' Art ' that receives much notice is architecture. The ' History and Law ' section, on the other hand, is much more limited in scope. Its contents up to date Mr. Shankland's list of Lambeth manuscript records relating to Wales under the Commonwealth. Canon Fisher's alphabetical list of the Parish Register Transcripts of the diocese of St. Asaph and his short list of manuscripts in the St. Asaph's Cathedral Library are valuable, and will be gratefully received by students of Welsh history. But are not ' History and Law ' to have their biblio- graphy like ' Archaeology and Art ' ? That would be a fitting addition to a publication designed to further the better organization of Celtic studies. Nor need it involve indeed it ought not to involve a separate biblio- graphy in the ' History and Law ' section. For the purposes of a biblio- graphical running index, ' Archaeology ', ' History and Law ' should be taken together. Such a grouping would do more than obviate unnecessary duplication of entries. It would also emphasize the essential unity of the three studies, an important point when better co-ordination is the object in view. J. Gr. E. Dr. S. E. Morison, whom we are glad to welcome to England as the first Harmsworth professor of American history in the university of Oxford, has contributed two papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society, Pro- ceedings, October 1920 June 1921 (Boston, 1922) ; the one on ' Boston Traders in the Hawaiian Islands, 1789-1823 ', the other on ' The Customs House Records in Massachusetts as a Source of History '. Other items of interest in the volume are a series of letters relating to the detention by the Spanish authorities of. ' John Clark of the Mayflower ' which supple- ment the Spanish transcripts printed in Brown's Genesis of the United fitates ; depositions in the case of ' Pickering v. Weston, 1623 ', the parties SS2