CONTENTS. Pag 1. General report of the proceedings at the annual meeting held in Washington, D. C., December 28–31, 1889... 2. Inaugural address of President Charles Kendall Adams on “Recont Historical Work in the Colleges and Universities of Europe and America.". 3.The Spirit of Historical Research" by James Schouler, of Boston.... 4. "The Origin of the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United States," by Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the U. S. National Mu seum.. 5. Bibliography of the published works of members of the American Historical Association, by Paul Leicester Ford, of Brooklyn, New York. 14 VIL REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS AT SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. By HERBERT B. ADAMS, Secretary. The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga in 1881, with only forty members, for the promotion of historical studies. In six years this society has grown, by a process of historical selection, to a membership of six hundred and twenty, with one hundred life members. At the sixth annual meeting, which was held in Washington, D. C., from the 28th to the 31st of December, 1889, there were present eighty-seven members, the largest attendance in the history of the Association. The following is an alphabetical list of members present: Charles Kendall Adams, president. Prof. Simoon E. Baldwin, Now Ha ven. Prof. Howard W. Caldwell, Univer- General Henry B. Carrington, of Judge Mellen Chamberlain, of Bos- Rev. Thomas S. Childs, D. D., Wash- A. Howard Clark, U. S. National Dr. Frederic Bancroft, librarian of Mendes Cohen, secretary of the the State Department. Hon. George Bancroft, ex-president Prof. Edward S. Bourne, Adelbert College, Cleveland. Henry E. Bourne, Norwich Acad emy. Dr. Clarence W. Bowen, New York. Maryland Historical Society. Prof. R. H. Dabney, University of General Charles W. Darling, secre- Llewellyn Deane, Washington. Paul Leicester Ford, Brooklyn. Mrs. Olivia M. Ford, Washington. Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, president National Deaf-Mute College. Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. A. A. Graham, State Historical Society, Columbus. Judge Alexander B. Hagner, Washington. Charles H. Haskins, Baltimore. Prof. Paul Haupt, Baltimore. General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senate. Col. John Hay, Washington. Hon. Willam Wirt Henry, Richmond, vice-president of the Association. Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Senate. Prof. F. II. Hodder, Cornell Univer sity. Roswell Randall Hoes, U. S. Navy. Hon. John Jay, vice president of the Association. Rear-Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, U. S. Navy, Washington. Miss Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, Washington. Hon. Horatio King, Washington. John A. King, president New York Historical Society. Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, editor of Magazine of American History. Edward G. Mason, president Chicago Historical Society. General Rufus Saxton, Washington. William Henry Smith, president A. R. Spofford, Library of Congress. Dr. Charles J. Stillé, Philadelphia. Dr. Joseph Meredith Toner, Library of Congress. Prof. William P. Trent, Univers of the South. President Lyon G. Tyler, William and Mary College. John Martin Vincent, Johns Hopkins University. Mrs. Ellen Harden Walworth, Washington. President Ethelbert D. Warfield, Miami University. J. E. Watkins, U. S. National Mu scum. William B. Weeden, president Historical Association, Brown University. President James C. Welling, Columbian University. Prof. O. T. Mason, U. S. National Ex-president Andrew D. White, Museum. John H. T. McPherson, Baltimore. Prof. John Pollard, Richmond. Newberry Library, Chicago, Cornell University. W. W. Willoughby, Johns Hopkins University. General James Grant Wilson, New York. Prof. Thomas Wilson, U. S. National Museum. Dr. Justin Winsor, librarian Harvard University. James A. Woodburn, Johns Hopkins University. General Marcus J. Wright, War Records Office, Washington. The headquarters of the Association in Washington were at the Arlington Hotel. Three morning sessions, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, were held from 10.30 to 1 o'clock at the National Museum by permission of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and three evening sessions on the same days from 8 to 10 p. m., in the large lecture hall of the Colum bian University by invitation of President James C. Welling. Sunday and the afternoon hours were free for social purposes. On Monday, from 4 to 7 o'clock, a tea was given to the members of the Association and their friends by Mr. and Mrs. Horatio King, 707 I street, and on Tuesday afternoon, at the same hours, Mrs. Walworth extended to the Association a like courtesy at her new home, 1300 L street. By invitation of the board of managers our members enjoyed the privileges of the Cosmos Club during the four days' sojourn in Washington. Every evening after adjournment of the formal session of the Association at the Columbian University there was a social reunion at the Cosmos Club. On Monday afternoon and on Tuesday morning by invitation of the librarian, Dr. Bancroft, parties of historical students and specialists visited the State Department for an examination of the interesting archives there preserved. The convention open! Saturday morning, December 28, in the large lecture hall of the National Museum. The walls were decorated with the Catlin collection of Indian portraits, with pictures of Pueblos and Cliff dwellers, and with the busts of American statesmen. The room was admirably suited to the purposes of the Association. The curators of the Museum had introduced number of cases for the display of interesting historical relics, books, manuscripts, etc., which attracted great attention on the part of the members as they entered or left the hall. The first paper presented at the morning session was by Prof. George L. Burr, of Cornell University, who has in his immediate charge the excellent historical library of ex-President Andrew D. White. The subject of Mr. Burr's paper was "The Literature of Witchcraft," for the illustration of which ample materials had been found in Mr. White's library. The literature of witchcraft includes perhaps a thousand volumes. The earliest was written in the fifteenth century, and their authors were Dominicans of the Inquisition. They regarded the subject as an old one. Indeed, the Church had always fought against magic. She had taught that the gods of the |