NOTES AND NEWS GENERAL The General Index to Volumes I.-X. of the American Historical Review, a book of 164 pages, prepared with great care by Mr. David M. Matteson, has now been issued, and may be obtained from the pub- hshers either bound or unbound. The twenty-second annual meeting of the American Historical Asso- ciation, a full account of which will as usual be published in the April Review, was held in Providence on December 26-29. The first session, as is customary, was a joint meeting of the Economic and Historical associations, at which the annual addresses of the respective presidents were delivered; the second session was devoted to various papers on European history; the third session, which was a joint meeting with the New England History Teachers Association, consisted of a conference on history in elementary schools; the fourth session, held jointly with the American Economic Association, was devoted to papers on economic history ; while the fifth session was made up of two conferences, one on the study of history in colleges, the other on the problems of state and local historical societies ; and the sixth and seventh sessions were given over to American history. At the annual business meeting of the Asso- ciation the usual reports of committees and commissions were presented. In particular may be mentioned that of the Public Archives Commission, which embraced reports on the archives, state or local, of seven states. a bibliography of the published archives of the original states prior to 1789, and the statutes passed by the states during the past year respect- ing their archives. The report of the committee on bibliography in- cluded a list of about one thousand works selected as the most important source-books of European history, with a mention in each instance of the American libraries where they are accessible. Alexander Brown, D.C.L., LL.D., died at his home in Nelson County, Virginia, on August 29, at the age of sixty-three, after a long period of ill health which entirely incapacitated him for work of any kind. His career as a historian was quite unusual. Leaving college to enter the Confederate army, he engaged after the war in mercantile business and later in farming. Seized with ambition to develop the early history of Virginia more completely than it had previously been developed, he pur- sued this end with wonderful perseverance and success,., accumulating a singularly varied store of materials from European archives. Large parts of his rich finds were set before scholars in his monumental Gene- sis of the United States (1889), really a history of Virginia to 1616, The First Republic in America (1898), and English Politics in Early Virginia History (1901). These books often showed want of regular (441 )
