It is interesting to note how he accounts for the fate of the Negro voter. He says that the Negro rising with the tide of democracy was about to be incorporated into the body politic, but that the habit of implicit obedience to overseers and a boss proved too strong. "These results," says he, "seemed to necessitate and to anticipate the elimination of the Negro as a voter." The decline of the political power of the Negro in Virginia is unfortunately considered by many as due to this cause. The author is wrong to leave the reader to infer that the Negro's incapacity to participate intelligently in the affairs of the government actually led to his elimination. The demands of race prejudice impelled all southern States to reduce the Negro to a lower status just as soon as the North loosed its hold on the South. NOTES The local club of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History is now making a serious study of Negro American History under the direction of Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The work was begun in November and will be completed in February. The phases of history to be considered are: _The Negro in Africa_, _The Enslavement of the Negro_, _Patriarchal Slavery in America_, _Slavery and the Rights of Man_, _The Reaction against the Negro_, _Slavery as an Economic Institution_, _The Free Negro in the United States_, _The Abolition Movement_, _The Colonization Project_, _Slavery and the Constitution_, _The Negro in the Civil War_, _The Reconstruction of the Southern States_, _The Negro in Freedom_, _The Negro and Social Justice_. Dodd, Mead and Company will soon publish for Professor Benjamin G. Brawley a work entitled _The Genius of the Negro_. The aim of the book will be to set forth what the Negro has done in literature, art and the like. Longmans, Green and Company have published _The Education of the African Native_. This will throw light on the much mooted question as to what the Europeans have done to promote the mental development of the native of the dark continent. In the seventh volume of the _Documentos para la Historia Argentina_ are found materials bearing on the _Comercio de Indias, Consualdo, Comercio de Negros y Extranjeros_, 1791-1809. The June number of the _Political Science Quarterly_ contained an article _The Negro Vote in Old New York_ by D. E. Fox. THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOL. III--APRIL, 1918--NO. 2 BENJAMIN BANNEKER, THE NEGRO MATHEMATICIAN AND ASTRONOMER