NOTES AND NEWS Just before our date of publication the American Historical Associa- tion holds its annual meeting at Detroit and Ann Arbor, December 27, 28 and 29. Though a full account of the meeting will, as usual, appear in the April number of the Review, a statement of the proceedings as outlined in the final edition of the programme may be convenient for many readers. According to the programme, one session is devoted to the Crusades and the East, with papers by Professor George L. Burr, on the Year One Thousand and Antecedents of the Crusades ; by Professor Oliver J. Thatcher on Critical Work on the Sources of the First Crusade ; and by President James B. Angell on the Capitulations in Turkey. The latter paper is printed in our present issue. The session of the Church History Section will be marked by papers on American Ecclesiology, by Professor George J. Bayles ; on The Origin of the Apostles' Creed, by Professor A. C. McGiffert ; and on The Date of the Ignatian Epistles, by Professor Francis A. Christie. In the session devoted to Western His- tory, Professor Edward G. Bourne will read a paper on The Legend of Marcus Whitman (see pp. 276 to 300 of the present issue) ; Professor Samuel B. Harding on Party Struggles in Missouri, 1861-1865 ; and Professor Frank H. Hodder a paper relating to the history of the Missouri Compromise. In a session which is given the title of British and Ameri- can History there will be papers on The Opposition in Parliament, 1765- 1775, by Professor Wilbur C. Abbott; on The Breakdown of the Old Colonial System in Canada, by Professor George M. Wrong ; on British Rule in Canada, by Sir John Bourinot ; and on The Breakdown of Re- construction, by Professor W. A. Dunning. The American Economic Association meets at the same time and place and there will be two joint sessions : one in which the presiding officers of the two associations, Mr. J. F. Rhodes and Professor Richard T. Ely, give their inaugural addresses, and another in which three papers of common interest will be read : by Professor Paul S. Reinsch on French and English Experiments with Representative Government in the West Indies ; by Professor H. Morse Stephens on The Turning Points in the History of British Administration in India ; and by Professor John H. Finley on Our Porto Rican Policy. Hospitable arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the association by the Detroit Club, the University Club of Detroit, the Uni- versity of Michigan, General and Mrs. Russell A. Alger and Mrs. George O. Robinson. The list of members of the Association just received ex- hibits a total of 1590 members. Its Annual Report for 1899 arrives just as we go to press. (394)
