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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Organized at Saratoga, N.Y., September 10, 1884, for "the promotion of Historical Studies." President: HON. JOHN JAY, New York City. Vice-Presidents: HON. WILLIAM WIRT HENRY, Richmond, Va. JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D., President, University of Michigan. Secretary: HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Treasurer: CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, Ph.D., 251 Broadway, New York City. Assistant Secretary and Curator: A. HOWARD CLARK, Curator of the Historical Collections, National Museum, Washington, D.C. Executive Council: (in addition to the above named officers) HON. ANDREW D. WHITE, LL.D., Ithaca, N.Y. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL.D., President Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. HON. GEORGE BANCROFT, LL.D., Washington, D.C. JOHN W. BURGESS, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of History and Law, Columbia College. JUSTIN WINSOR, LL.D., Librarian Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. GEORGE P. FISHER, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University. WILLIAM F. POOLE, LL.D., Librarian Newberry Library, Chicago. G. BROWN GOODE, Ph.D., LL.D., Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum. JOHN GEORGE BOURINOT, C.M.B., LL.D., D.C.L., Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. Sir: The American Historical Association was charted by Act of Congress, January 4, 1889, "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and of history in America." The charter provides that the Association shall have its principal office at Washington and that a report shall annually be made to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution will communicate to Congress the whole of such reports, or such portion thereof as he shall set fit. By Resolution of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, adopted January 9, 1889, the Association is permitted to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books,