CONTENTS. Page. I. Report of Proceedings of Fifteenth Annual Meeting in Bos- II. Inaugural Address by James Ford Rhodes, President.... III. Removal of Officials by the Presidents of the United States, VIII. The Restoration of the Proprietary of Maryland and the Legislation against the Roman Catholics during the Gov- IX. The First Criminal Code of Virginia, by Walter F. Prince.. Page. XX. Titles of Books on English History published in 1897-1899, selected by W. Dawson Johnston .... 613 XXI. A Bibliography of Mississippi, by Thomas McAdory Owen.. 633 829 845 VOLUME II. Fourth Annual Report of the Manuscripts Commission. Correspondence of John C. Calhoun. Edited by J. F. Jameson. I. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE, MASS., DECEMBER 27-29, 1899. HIST 99, VOL I -1 REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEET ING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.' By A. HOWARD CLARK, Assistant Secretary and Curator. The act of incorporation of the American Historical Association, approved January 4, 1889, provides that it shall have its principal office at Washington City, and that it may hold its annual meetings in such places as the incorporators shall determine. Under this authority meetings have been held in Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, and New Haven. At the New Haven meeting in 1898 it was decided that future meetings be held alternately in the East, the West, and at Washington. Accordingly Boston was fixed upon for the 1899 meeting, Detroit for 1900, and Washington for 1901. The fifteenth annual meeting convened in Boston on December 27, 1899, and for three days in that city and in Cambridge the association was busied with the reading and discussion of papers and topics pertaining to American history and to the study of history in America. The condition of the association was shown by the reports of the officers and various commissions and committees to be very active and prosperous. The membership has more than doubled since 1894, the increase during the last two years being especially large, and the present number of members is nearly 1,500, residing in all parts of the country, and including the large majority of professional writers and teachers of American history, besides many representative men interested in the study of facts and problems connected with America's past and their relation to the future of the nation in all its phases of social and political life. 1 An account of this meeting is printed in the April number of the American Historical Review, and has been used in part in preparing the present report. |