EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WILLIAM BABCOCK WEEDEN, A. M., 1884-1886.

+CHARLES DEANE, LL. D., 1884-1887.

MOSES COIT TYLER, L. H. D., ..., 1884-85.
EPHRAIM EMERTON, Ph. D., 1884-1885.

FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER, A. M., 1885-1887.
WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN, A. M., 1885–1887.

+ WILLIAM WIRT HENRY, LL. D., 1886-1888.
†RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES, LL. D., 1887–88.
JOHN W, BURGESS, 1887-1891.

ARTHUR MARTIN WHEELER, A. M., 1887-1889.

GEORGE PARK FISHER, D. D., LL. D., 1888-1891.

GEORGE BROWN GOODE, LL. D., 1889-1896.

JOHN GEORGE BOURINOT, C. M. G., D. C. L., LL. D., 1889-1894. JOHN BACH MCMASTER, LL. D. 1891-1894.

GEORGE BURTON ADAMS, Ph. D., 1891-1897; 1898-1901.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, A. B., LL. D., 1894–95.

†JABEZ LAMAR MONROE CURRY, LL. D., 1894–95.

HENRY MORSE STEPHENS, A. M., 1895–1899.

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, Ph. D., 1895-1899; 1901-
EDWARD MINER GALLAUDET, Ph. D., LL. D., 1896-97.

MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, LL. D., 1897-1900.
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Ph. D., 1897-1900.

ANDREW C. MCLAUGHLIN, LL. B., 1898-1901; 1903-
WILLIAM A. DUNNING, Ph. D., 1899–1902.

PETER WHITE, A. M., 1899-1902.

J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph. D., LL. D., 1900-1903.

A. LAWRENCE LOWELL, LL. B., 1900-1903.

HERBERT PUTNAM, Litt. D., LL. D., 1901

GEORGE L. BURR, A. B., 1902

EDWARD P. CHEYNEY, A. M., 1902—

EDWARD G. BOURNE, Ph. D., 1903

Deceased officers are marked thus †

COMMITTEES-1904.

ANNUAL COMMITTEES.

Committee on Programme of Twentieth Annual Meeting (Chicago, Ill., December, 1904): J. Franklin Jameson, Henry E. Bourne, Ralph C. H. Catterall, Charles H. Haskins, Reuben G. Thwaites.

Local Committee of Arrangements: Charles L. Hutchinson, Edward E. Ayer, E. W. Blatchford, Edward O. Brown, James H. Eckles, James W. Fertig, Marshall Field, C. F. Gunther, William R. Harper, J. Franklin H. Head, H. N. Higinbotham, James A. James, Franklin Jameson, Harry P. Judson, Elbridge G. Keith, Samuel H. Kerfoot, jr., Herman H. Kohlsaat, J. B. Leake, Franklin McVeagh, E. E. Prussing, Martin A. Ryerson, Otto L. Schmitt, Francis W. Shepardson, Edwin E. Sparks, Benjamin S. Terry, James Westfall Thompson, Joseph P. Warren; with power to add members at the discretion of the chairman.

Committee on the Entertainment of Ladies: Mrs. Mary J. Wilmarth, Miss Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Miss Ida M. Tarbell; with power to add other members at the discretion of the chairman.

STANDING COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS, AND BOARDS.

Editors of the American Historical Review: Andrew C. McLaughlin, H. Morse Stephens, George B. Adams, J. Franklin Jameson, William M. Sloane (these five hold over); Albert Bushnell Hart (reelected for term ending January 1, 1910).

Historical Manuscripts Commission: Edward G. Bourne, Frederick W. Moore, Theodore C. Smith, Reuben G. Thwaites, George P. Garrison, Worthington C. Ford.

Committee on the Justin Winsor Prize: Charles M. Andrews, E. P. Cheyney, Charles H. Hull, Roger Foster, Williston Walker. (In Professor Andrews' absence during a portion of the year Professor Hull will act as chairman of the committee.)

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Charles Gross, George L. Burr, Victor Coffin, James Harvey Robinson, John Martin Vincent. Public Archives Commission: Herman V. Ames, William MacDonald, Herbert L. Osgood, Charles M. Andrews, E. E. Sparks.

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Committee on Bibliography: Ernest C. Richardson, A. P. C. Griffin, George
Iles, William C. Lane, Reuben G. Thwaites, Max Farrand.
Committee on Publications: George W. Knight, A. Howard Clark, F. M.
Fling, S. M. Jackson, Miss Elizabeth Kendall, A. D. Morse, Earle
W. Dow.
General Committee: Henry E. Bourne, Charles H. Haskins, Miss Lucy M.
Salmon, Miss Lilian W. Johnson, George E. Howard, John S. Bas-
sett, William MacDonald, George B. Adams, Marshall S. Brown.
(With power to add adjunct members.)

Finance Committee: Elbridge T. Gerry, George S. Bowdoin.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

I. Report of Proceedings of Nineteenth Annual Meeting, at New

Orleans, December 29-31, 1903, by Charles H. Haskins,

corresponding secretary.

II. Ethical Values in History, by Henry Charles Lea....

III. Compromises of the Constitution, by Max Farrand.

IV. The World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase, by William

M. Sloane

V. The Story of Lewis and Clark's Journals, by Reuben Gold

Thwaites

105

VI. The Aaron Burr Conspiracy at New Orleans, by Walter

Flavius McCaleb....

131

VII. The Spanish Archives and their Importance for the History

of the United States, by William R. Shepherd

145

VIII. The American Colonial Charter, by Louise Phelps Kellogg..

IX. Public Documents of the First Fourteen Congresses, by

Gen. A. W. Greely.

185

343

X. Report of Public Archives Commission

407

VOLUME II.

Seventh Report of Historical Manuscript Commission. Correspond-
ence of the French Ministers to the United States, 1791–1797.

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