A very interesting document is the Report of the Committee on the Documentary Historical Publications of the United States Government, appointed by President Roosevelt in February, 1908, as an assistant committee to the Committee on Department Methods. Hon. Lawrence O. Murray, now Comptroller of the Currency at Washington, D. C., and at that time in the Department of Commerce and Labor, is a member of this committee, and the Society acknowledges with its thanks the receipt from him of a copy. On February 11th, the President sent it to Congress with a message, and message and report have since been printed as Senate Document No. 714 of the session concluded March 4th. The report contains a review of the course hitherto pursued by the government in the matter of historical publications; a general survey of the publications hitherto made, and of the gaps still existing between or among them; a body of recommendations for filling such gaps, especially by the inception of a series of National State Papers; and finally a series of suggestions for the organization of a permanent Commission on National Historical Publications, with a bill which, it is hoped, will be introduced in the sixty-first Congress. The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association was held at the University of California November 21st last. Papers were read by Professor E. D. Adams of Stanford University concerning the annexation of California, Mr. Don E. Smith and Professor J. N. Bowman of the University of California, and by Mr. F. J. Taggart. The proceedings lasted the entire day, sessions being held in the morning and afternoon, followed by a banquet in the evening. The publications of the American Association for International Conciliation are being sent forward to the members of our Society, and are readable and interesting documents by learned authorities upon the subjects they present. At the suggestion of the Secretary of the Association, the addresses of our members were sent him, and he has written each that the publications of the Association will go forward to them if they so request it. All that it is necessary to do to receive them is to write the Secretary. His address is: “F. P. Keppel, Secretary, Sub-Station 84, New York City.” Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell, Providence, R. I., President of the Rhode Island Citizens’ Historical Association and an applicant for membership in our Society, has recently published in the Journal of American History an interesting article entitled “First White Owners of Land in America.” Mr. Bicknell is also the author of “Sowans,” a work treating of the early history of Barrington and Warren in Rhode Island. Among the contents of the last issue of the _American Historical Magazine_ is “Heroes of the Battle of Point Pleasant,” by Delia A. McCulloch.