Organized at Saratoga, N. Y., September 10, 1884. OFFICERS FOR 1894. President: HENRY ADAMS, Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents: EDWARD G. MASON, Chicago, Ill. HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, Treasurer: CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, PH. D., Secretary: HERBERT B. ADAMS, PH. D., LL. D., Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Assistant Secretary and Curator: Curator of Historical Collections, National Museum, Washington, D. C. Executive Council : (In addition to the above-named officers.) JUSTIN WINSOR, LL. D., CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL. D., WILLIAM F. POOLE, LL. D., JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D., President of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. G. BROWN GOODE, PÅ. D., LL. D., Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in Charge of the National Museum. JOHN GEORGE BOURINOT, C. M. G., LL. D., D. C. L., Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons. J. B. MCMASTER, Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. GEORGE B. ADAMS, Professor of History in Yale University, New Haven. CONTENTS. I. Report of Proceedings of Ninth Annual Meeting in Chicago, July 11-13, 1893, by Herbert B. Adams, Secretary.... II. Inaugural Address by Dr. James B. Angell, President of the Association, on the Inadequate Recognition of Diplo- III. The Value of National Archives, by Mrs. Ellen Hardin IV. American Historical Nomenclature, by Hon. Ainsworth R. X. The Present Status of Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by Norsemen, by Hon. James Phinney Baxter...... XI. Prince Henry, the Navigator, by Prof. Edward G. Bourne. XIII. The Union of Utrecht, by Prof. Lucy M. Salmon......... XXV. The Origin of the Standing Committe. System in Ameri- can Legislative Bodies, by Prot. J. Franklin Jameson... XXVI. Gen. Joseph Martin and the Wa. of the Revolution in the |