Organized at Saratoga, N. Y., September 10, 1884. OFFICERS FOR 1894. President: HENRY ADAMS, Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents: EDWARD G. MASON, HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, Treasurer: CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, PH. D., Secretary: HERBERT B. ADAMS, PH. D., LL. D., Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Assistant Secretary and Curator: Curator of Historical Collections, National Museum, Washington, D. C. Executive Council : (In addition to the above-named officers.) JUSTIN WINSOR, LL. D., CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL. D., WILLIAM F. POOLE, LL. D., JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D., President of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in Charge of the National Museum. Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. J. B. MCMASTER, Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. GEORGE B. ADAMS, Professor of History in Yale University, New Haven. CONTENTS. I. Report of Proceedings of Ninth Annual Meeting in Chicago, July 11-13, 1893, by Herbert B. Adams, Secretary.......... II. Inaugural Address by Dr. James B. Angell, President of Page. VI. Historical Industries, by Dr. James Schouler..... VII. The Historical Method of Writing the History of Christian IX. The First Fugitive Slave Case of Record in Ohio, by Hon. X. The Present Status of Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by Norsemen, by Hon. James Phinney Baxter..... XI. Prince Henry, the Navigator, by Prof. Edward G. Bourne. XXV. The Origin of the Standing Committe. System in Ameri- can Legislative Bodies, by Prot. J. Franklin Jameson... XXVI. Gen. Joseph Martin and the War of the Revolution in the |