NOTES AND NEWS Preparations for the sixteenth annual meeting of the American His- torical Association to be held at Detroit and Ann Arbor on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 27, 28, and 29, are well under way. The American Economic Association holds its annual meeting at the same time and place ; arrangements have therefore been made for a joint session of the two societies in which subjects of common interest will be discussed. This joint session will be held in Ann Arbor, prob- ably on the second day, and a special train will be provided to take the members back and forth from Detroit. While in Ann Arbor the Asso- ciation will be the guest of the University of Michigan. The present indications are that the meeting will be largely attended and that the great body of western members who often find it difficult to be present at the eastern meetings will be well represented at Detroit. Preliminary programmes will be sent out soon after the first of November. Professor Adolf Holm, author of a celebrated history of Sicily, died at Freiburg i. B. on June 3, aged nearly seventy. He was born in Liibeck, and was a teacher in its gymnasium when he wrote his history of Sicily in ancient times. He was called to be professor of ancient history in the University of Palermo, whence in 18S4 he was called to Naples. "W^iih the Cavallari, father and son, he prepared a Topo_i^rafia Archeologica di Siracusa ; and he added a third volume to his Sicilian history, bringing the narrative down to the times of the Saracen con- quests. In recent years his most notable work was his history of Greece, 1 886-1 894, which has been translated into English. General Jacob D. Cox, an eminent public man, an excellent historical scholar, and a frequent though anonymous contributor to this journal, died on August 4, aged 71. He was a brigadier-general during the Civil War, governor of Ohio 1866-1867, Secretary of the Interior 1869-1870, and afterward a railroad president, a judge, a law professor and a college president. Lately he had lived in retirement at Oberlin. His historical books include The March to the Sea, 18S2 ; Atlanta, 1882; and The Battle of Franklin, 1S97. Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, formerly chief-justice of the municipal court of Boston and librarian of the Boston Public Library, died on June 25, aged 79. An historical scholar of remarkable acuteness, grasp and breadth, he published but one important historical book, John Adams, the Statesman of the Revolution, with other Essays and Addresses, 1898. ( 182 )
