AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Organized at Saratoga, N. Y., September 10, 1884. OFFICERS FOR 1894. President: HENRY ADAMS, Vice-Presidents: EDWARD G. MASON, Chicago, Ill. HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, Worcester, Mass. 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: A. HOWARD CLARK, 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. J. B. MCMASTER, Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. GEORGE B. ADAMS, Professor of History in Yale University, New Haven. CONTENTS. Page. 1. Report of Proceedings of Ninth Annual Meeting in Chicago, II. Inaugural Address by Dr. James B. Angell, President of the Association, on the Inadequate Recognition of Diplo- III. The Value of National Archives, by Mrs. Ellen Hardin VI. Historical Industries, by Dr. James Schouler.... VII. The Historical Method of Writing the History of Christian Doctrine, by Prof. Charles J. Little..... VIII. The Requirements for the Historical Doctorate in America, 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. XIII. The Union of Utrecht, by Prof. Lucy M. Salmon.. XVI. The Relation of History to Politics, by Prof. Jesse Macy.. XVII. Early Lead Mining in Illinois and Wisconsin, by Reuben XXV. The Origin of the Standing Committe. System in Ameri- can Legislative Bodies, by Prot. J. Franklin Jameson... XXVI. Gen. Joseph Martin and the Wa. of the Revolution in the |