Under the auspices of this Society some important historical work has been done. Dr. Kohl’s book is the most elaborate summary yet made of the early explorations on our New England coast. The labors of Dr. Woods have been the subject of consideration in Dr. E. A. Park’s _Life and Character of Leonard Woods_, Andover, 1880, 52 pp., and in Dr. C. C. Everett’s notice in _Me. Hist. Coll._, viii. 481, and in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xviii. 15. The late George Folsom opened an important field of investigation in his _Catalogue of Original Documents in the English Archives relating to the Early History of Maine_, privately printed, New York, 1858, which covers the years 1601-1700, and is said to have been compiled for him by Mr. H. G. Somerby. See _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._,1859, p. 262, and 1869, p. 481. Of the labors of William D. Williamson, the principal historian of the State, there is due record in the _Historical Magazine_, xiii. 265, May, 1868, and in the _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, i. 90. The Hon. William Willis, of whom there are accounts in the _Maine Hist. Coll._, vii. 473, and in the _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, 1873, p. 1, was for many years the president of the Society, and besides furnishing many communications, he issued a bibliography of Maine in _Norton’s Literary Letter_, no. 4, 1859, which was much enlarged in the _Historical Magazine_, xvii. 145, March, 1870. In connection with this subject the bibliography in Griffin’s _History of the Press in Maine_, 1872, deserves notice. There is in the _Hist. Mag._, Jan. 1868, an account of the Maine Historical Society and the historical investigations it has patronized. A list of the charters and grants on the Maine coast is given in the _Hist. Mag._, March, 1870, p. 154. See in this connection S. F. Haven’s lecture in the _Mass. Hist. Soc. Lowell Lectures_. [Illustration: DR. JOHN G. KOHL.