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BOOKS Charles Scribner's Sons SCRIBNERS Fifth Avenue, New York The American Historical Review THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1919 M EMBERS of the American Historical Association expect to find at the beginning of the April number of this journal an account of the transactions of the annual meeting of the Association, customarily held in the last days of December preceding, and with it certain items of formal matter relating to the meeting, such as the text of important votes passed by the Association or the Executive Council, a summary of the treasurer's report, an exhibit of the budget or estimated receipts and expenditures or appropriations, and a list of the officers of the Association and of the various committees appointed by the Executive Council. The thirty-fourth annual meeting, which was to have taken place at Cleveland on December 27 and 28, was indefinitely postponed on account of a strong recommendation, received from the health officer of that city a few days before the date on which the meeting should have taken place, that it should be omitted because of the epidemic of influenza then prevailing in Cleveland. Yet, though there is no annual meeting to chronicle in these pages, it will be convenient to members that the formal matter spoken of above should be found in its customary place. Moreover, though no meeting of the Association has taken place, there was a meeting of the Executive Council held in New York on January 31 and February 1, 1919, some of the transactions of which, analogous to those of the Association in its annual business meeting, may here for convenience be described. In a few cases the text of votes passed is printed in an appendix to the present article. The Council met at Columbia University, with the president, Mr. William R. Thayer, in the chair. Three ex-presidents of the Association, Andrew D. White, Henry Adams, and Theodore Roosevelt, and A. Howard Clark who for thirty years had served the Association in the successive offices of assistant secretary, secretary, AM. HIST. REV., VOL. XXIV.-24. (349) ། and curator, having died since the last meeting of the Council, memorials and resolutions commemorating them and their services to historical scholarship and to the Association were read and adopted. Resolutions of sympathetic congratulation to Professors Paul Fredericq and Henri Pirenne, on the occasion of their return to the University of Ghent after thirty-two months of unjustifiable and cruel exile and detention in Germany, enforced upon them by the late German government, were passed, with expressions of cordial good wishes for the future. The annual report of the secretary, Mr. Waldo G. Leland, showed a total membership on December 1, 1918, of 2519, as against an enrollment of 2654 on December 19, 1917, and of 2739 on the same date in 1916. A summary of the annual report of the treasurer, Mr. Charles Moore; is presented in an appendix to these pages. Invitations from Cleveland and Minneapolis for the annual meeting of 1919 were before the Council. It voted, on account of the special conditions resulting from the war, which seemed to make a central meeting-place desirable, to hold the meeting in Cleveland in the concluding days of December, 1919. No action was taken respecting the place of meeting for 1920. The omission of the annual meeting in 1918 does not carry with it the omission of the annual report for that year. The act of incorporation requiring the presentation of an annual report to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, provision was made for a volume which will contain the usual formal records of the Association, or so many of them as have been made, together with materials supplied by some of the various commissions and committees. The Historical Manuscripts Commission, which reported through its chairman, Dr. Justin H. Smith, purposes to print in that report a body of correspondence of Santa Anna, of the period of the war between the United States and Mexico. It is planned that the annual report for 1919 shall contain a large selection, edited for the commission by Professor Robert P. Brooks of the University of Georgia, from the letters to John C. Calhoun preserved among his papers at Clemson College. After this, the commission expects to print a large selection, probably three volumes, of the papers of Stephen F. Austin, edited by Professor Eugene C. Barker. These proposals were authorized by the Council. In the case of the Public Archives Commission, which has nearly completed its round of activities in connection with the |