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NOTES AND NEWS GENERAL Fredrik Nielsen, the Danish bishop and historian, died on March 24 at the age of sixty-one. Among his many historical and theological works are A History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century, in two volumes, of which an English translation was recently published by Button, and studies of various religious movements in England. Dr. John Mackintosh, the author of a History of Civilization in Scotland, in four volumes, a volume on Scotland in the Story of the Nations series, and several monographs, died at Aberdeen on May 4, in his seventy-fourth year. He was a self-educated man, having been successively farm-hand, shoemaker, policeman, and stationer. Albert Henry Smyth died on May 4, at the age of forty-four. At the time of his death he was professor of English in the Philadelphia Boys' High School, and curator of the American Philosophical Society. His chief work in the domain of history is The Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, the tenth and last volume of which has just issued from the press of the Macmillan Company. The annual meeting of the North Central History Teachers Associa- tion for 1907 was held March 29 and 30, at Chicago. The principal address was that of Professor Edward Channing on " Teaching of History in Schools and Colleges ". Professor Channing's address was discussed by Professor McLaughlin of the University of Chicago and by Dr. Dunn of the Shortridge High School, of Indianapolis. One session was devoted to a discussion of the influence of foreign elements in the population on the teaching of history and civics, the most suggestive remarks, on the whole, being those of Miss Jane Addams, head of the Hull House settlement. Professor Van Tyne of the Uni- versity of Michigan presented a paper dealing with the relation be- tween the Continental Congress and the states; Professor Trenholme of the University of Missouri spoke of the field for historical research in English history, and Dr. Pooley. of the Missouri Normal School, dealt with the causes of emigration from the seaboard to the western states during the decade from 1830 to 1840. Dr. George C. Sellery of the University of 'isconsin was elected president for the ensuing year. At a recent meeting of the leading Cambridge historians it was de- termined that there be raised as a memorial to the late Miss Mary Bateson a sum to be a partial endowment of a Mary Bateson Fellow- (937)