This is a preliminary report of the Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission, and is one of the really monumental historical enterprises in the South. The commission is actively collecting, arranging and publishing various kinds of material relating to the Civil War, and to thoroughly appreciate the truly marvelous changes one should have known the conditions in the southern capitals a quarter of a century ago. Those directing this enterprise are so energetic, intelligent and ambitious that we believe the best fruits are yet to be gathered, although there is no room to doubt the value of several large collections already made. Mr. Douglas Southall Freeman is the director, and this calendar, orderly throughout and supplemented by careful notes, is very complimentary to him. Much historical data can be gathered for the Society from the southern states, where the recognition of Irishmen and their achievements was more free than in the New England states. THE ADOPTION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By HORACE EDGAR FLACK, PH. D. Is a part of the Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. So much has been heretofore said about these studies in the current magazines that we assume the members of the Society are familiar with them. COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCHES MADE BY THE MICHIGAN PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The Society has been at work many years, and now publishes its thirty-sixth volume. The usefulness of this work to members of our Society in Michigan who desire to record the history and achievements of Americans of Irish birth or descent cannot be overestimated. COLLECTIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN. This is the eighteenth volume of the publications, and is edited by Doctor Thwaites, Secretary and Superintendent of the Society. The Wisconsin History Commission, consisting of the governor of the state, the professor of American history in the state university, the secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the secretary of the Library Commission, and a representative of the Grand Army of the Republic, work with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and have already gathered and arranged the material for a history of Wisconsin’s part in the Civil War. A series of “Original Papers” has been inaugurated, on the line of the papers presented at our last meeting in Washington by Mr. Justice Dowling and Ex-Attorney-General Moloney, and are very interesting. LIVES OF THE GOVERNORS OF MINNESOTA.