THOMAS M. OWEN, JR., Chief of the Division of Accessions. The National Archives. Address before the departmental and post historians of The American Legion, St. Louis, September 23, 1935; before the commanders and adjutants of The American Legion, Indianapolis, October 30, 1935; and before the national executive committee of The American Legion, Indianapolis, November 2, 1935. American World War Memorials. Fidac (Paris), May 1936, p. 5-9. ARTHUR E. KIMBERLY, Chief of the Division of Repair and Preservation. The Preservation of Records and Air Conditioning. Address before the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, February 10, 1936. ROSCOE R. HILL, Chief of the Division of Classification. Review of Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783, by John W. Caughey. Hispanic American Historical Review, 15: 36015:360– 363 (Aug. 1935). Sources of American History in Spanish Archives. Address before the Second General Assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, October 16, 1935; published in Bulletin of the Pan American Union, 69: 917-926 (Dec. 1935), and in Spanish in Boletín de la Union Panamericana, 70:276– 286 (Apr. 1936). How Do We Know History? Address before the students of Washington-Lee High School, Clarendon, Va., December 12, 1935. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, edited from the original records, vols. 32 and 33. Washington, Library of Congress, 1936. x, 789 p. Los archivos españoles y los investigadores americanos. Colección de estudios... (Mélanges Altamira) . . . ofrecidas a D. Rafael Altamira y Crevea (Madrid, 1936), 100-117. Review of The Mississippi Question, 1795-1803, by Arthur P. Whitaker. Hispanic American Historical Review, 16:79-81 (Feb. 1936). El archivo de los Estados Unidos de América. Las Ciencias (Madrid), April 1936. JOHN R. RUSSELL, Chief of the Division of Cataloging. Library Service in the U. S. S. R. Journal of Adult Education, 8:165-169 (Apr. 1936). Union Catalogs in Europe. Address before a conference on union catalogs. Washington, D. C., April 17, 1936. Russian Libraries. Address before the New York Regional Catalog Group of the American Library Association, New York, November 22, 1935. European Libraries. Address before the staff of the preparation division of the New York Public Library, New York, November 30, 1935. JOHN R. RUSSELL-Continued. Second International Congress of Libraries and Bibliography. Address before the District of Columbia Library Association, Washington, D. C., November 5, 1935. Cooperative Cataloging in Europe. Paper read before the catalog section of the American Library Association, Richmond, Va., May 13, 1936. PERCY SCOTT FLIPPIN, Chief of the Division of Research. Review of The Spanish Missions of Georgia, by John Tate Lanning. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 23:80 (June 1936). JOHN G. BRADLEY, Chief of the Division of Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings. Recording History in Three Dimensions. Paper contributed (not read) to the Second General Assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Washington, D. C., October 14-19, 1935; reproduced by the Assembly. Motion Pictures as Government Archives. Paper read before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Washington, D. C., October 23, 1935; published in the Journal of the Society, 26: 653–660 (June 1936). Storage of Nitrate Film. Paper read before the American Society of Photogrammetry, Washington, D. C., January 13, 1936. Report of the Committee on Preservation of Film. Read before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Chicago, April 29, 1936. BERNARD R. KENNEDY, Director of the Division of the Federal Register. The Federal Register. Address before the Federal Bar Association, Washington, D. C., February 17, 1936. The Federal Register. Paper read for the author by Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., before the American Library Association, Richmond, Va., May 11, 1936. VERNON D. TATE, Chief of the Division of Photographic Reproduction and Research. Criteria for Measuring the Effectiveness of Reading Devices. Address before the microphotography symposium of the American Library Association, Richmond, Va., May 12, 1936. Microcopying as an Aid to Research. Paper read before the Conference of State and Local Historical Societies of the American Historical Association, Chattanooga, Tenn., December 27, 1935. GEORGE F. ASHWORTH, special examiner in the Office of the Director of Archival Service. Text-Syllabus XIII: The Renaissance. Washington, D. C., National Institute of Adult Education [1935. 29 p.]. Written in collaboration with W. H. E. Jaeger. Text-Syllabus XIV: The Reformation. Washington, D. C., National Institute of Adult Education [1935]. 22 p. Written in collaboration with W. H. E. Jaeger. GEORGE F. ASHWORTH-Continued. Ancient Greece. Lecture before the Washington societies of the National Institute of Adult Education, Washington, D. C., August 28, 1935. The Reformation. Lecture before the Erasmus Society of the PHILIP C. BROOKS, special examiner in the Office of the Director of Review of The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, by Samuel F. Bemis. Hispanic American Historical Review, 15: 475 (Nov. 1935). Review of Pichardo's Treatise on the Limits of Louisiana, edited by Charles W. Hackett, vol. 2. Hispanic American Historical Review, 15: 480 (Nov. 1935). Spanish Royalists in the United States, 1809-1821. Colonial Hispanic America, edited by A. Curtis Wilgus (Washington, 1936), 559-572. Review of A History of American Foreign Policy, by John H. Latané and David W. Wainhouse. Hispanic American Historical Review, 16: 83 (Feb. 1936). Review notice of Cuba and the United States, 1900-1935, by Russell H. Fitzgibbon. American Historical Review, 41: 630 (Apr. 1936). EMMETT J. LEAHY, special examiner in the Office of the Director of Archival Service. The Decline of Rome. Lecture before a group in the National Institute of Adult Education, Baltimore, September 24, 1935. NELSON M. BLAKE, deputy examiner in the Division of Accessions. William Mahone of Virginia, Soldier and Political Insurgent. Richmond, Va., Garrett & Massie, 1935. xvi, 323 p. PHILIP M. HAMER, deputy examiner in the Division of Accessions. British Consuls and the Negro Seamen Acts, 1850-1860. Journal of Southern History, 1:138-168 (May 1935). Review of Stage-Coach Days in the Bluegrass, by J. Winston Coleman, Jr. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 23: 139-140 (June 1936). DALLAS D. IRVINE, deputy examiner in the Division of Accessions. The Immediate Origins of the French General Staff. Paper read before the American Military History Foundation, Chattanooga, Tenn., December 28, 1935. PAUL LEWINSON, deputy examiner in the Division of Accessions. Review of The South Looks at Its Past, by Benjamin B. Kendrick and Alex M. Arnett. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 23:149 (June 1936). THEODORE R. SCHELLENBERG, deputy examiner in the Division of Accessions. The Secret Treaty of Verona: A Newspaper Forgery. Journal of Modern History, 7:280-291 (Sept. 1935). Microfilm Copying of Documents. Paper read before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Washington, D. C., October 21, 1935; published in the Journal of the Society, 27:90-93 (July 1936). CARL L. LOKKE, assistant classifier in the Division of Classification. Review of Lafayette Comes to America, by Louis Gottschalk. St. Domingue in Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in 1795. Hispanic American Historical Review, 16:250-257 (May 1936). ALMON R. WRIGHT, assistant classifier in the Division of Classifica tion. The Catholic Church as an Economic Factor in Colonial Spanish America. Colonial Hispanic America, edited by A. Curtis Wilgus (Washington, 1936), 519-537. APPENDIX III REPORT OF THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION RECOMMENDING A PUBLICATION ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, OFFICE OF THE ARCHIVIST, Washington, D. C., March 17, 1936. The Congress of the United States: In accordance with the provision of section 9 of the National Archives Act (U. S. C., title 40, ch. 2A), which directs the Archivist to transmit to Congress recommendations of the National Historical Publications Commission, I have the honor to transmit herewith a report to the Congress of the United States submitted by the National Historical Publications Commission. I am advised by the Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget that the attached report would not be in conflict with the program of the President. In accordance with the provision of section 5 of the National Archives Act (U. S. C., title 40, ch. 2A), which directs the National Historical Publications Commission to "make plans, estimates, and recommendations for such historical works and collections of sources as seem appropriate for publication and/or otherwise recording at the public expense", the said National Historical Publications Commission respectfully submits the following report: In view of the approaching sesquicentennial of the framing and ratification of the Constitution of the United States and of the outstanding importance in the history of the Nation of the adoption of the Constitution, the Commission has made a comprehensive survey of original material, published and unpublished, relating to the history of the Constitution. From this survey it appears that the original material on the subject falls naturally into four groups as follows: (1) That relating to the antecedents of the Constitution, including the plans of colonial union, the Articles of Confederation, and the movement for "a more perfect Union", up to the assembling of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. (2) That relating to the framing of the Constitution, including all the records of the work of the Convention. (3) That relating to the ratification of the Constitution and the proposal and ratification of the first ten amendments thereto, including |