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America 207 GENERAL ITEMS Of the three guides to the materials for American history in foreign archives now in course of preparation by the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution, that of Mr. L. M. Perez on the Cuban archives is now practically ready for the press. That of Pro- fessor Shepherd on Simancas, Seville and the Archive Historico Nacional is in an advanced state. That of Professor C. M. Andrews on the London archives for the period before 1783 approaches comple- tion. During the summer Miss Frances Davenport has been supple- menting Mr. Andrews's materials on the Public Record Office and the British Museum by similar treatment of minor repositories, such as the archives of the House of Lords, of the province of Westminster, Lam- beth, Fulham, etc. Professor William H. Allison has made considerable progress toward the proposed inventory of the materials for American religious history preserved in the archives of religious denominations, missionary societies and theological seminaries. Congress has made provision for a new edition of Poore's Charters, Constitutions, and Organic La-.i-s. It will be edited by Dr. Francis N. Thorpe and Professor Benjamin F. Shambaugh. A group of private benefactors has established, at Madison. Wiscon- sin, the American Bureau of Industrial Research, of which Professor Richard T. Ely is the principal director. The Bureau has in preparation and will publish at intervals within the next two years a large collection of fresh documentary material for the history of American industrial society. Volume I., edited by Dr. U. B. Phillips, will be devoted to the South and the early West — the plantation and frontier types of industrial society. Vol. II. will treat of the Northern development of towns and farming. Vols. III., IV. and V., edited by Dr. J. R. Commons, assisted by Miss Helen Sumner and Mr. J. B. . drews. will present a great mass of material on trade-unions and the labor movement, from 1800 to 1880; and vol. VI., by the same editors, will present the documents for certain important cases at law where trade-unionists have been tried for conspiracy. Each volume will contain a prefatory essay of some fifty pages, followed by some five hundred pages of documents. The material is mostly from unique sources, gathered by the staff of the Bureau by personal research throughout the L'nited States. A later work of the Bureau will be a history of American industrial society, for the writing of which the present collecting and printing of docu- ments is a preliminary. The documentary volumes will be sold at the cost of printing and binding. The Bureau will be grateful to any per- sons who may add to the value of its work by calling to its attention any material suitable to its purpose which may have escaped the notice of its staff.