Evening star., 1901-12-26
Annual Gathering of the American
Association Tomorrow.
INTERESTING PAPERS PROMISED
Joint Sessions With the American
Economic ASSOCIATION.
A USIN ESS NEE TIN q

The seventeenth annual meeting Of the
American Historical Association, to be held
IN this city beginning tomorrow, viii have
many interesting features in its program OF
exercises The meetings will be held from
the 9th TO the 31st inclusive. During the
27th and 2Sth the American Economic AS
sociation will also be in session here. There
will be two joint sessions of the associa-
tions the first on next Friday evening,
when the Presidents Will read their annual
addresses, and the second on Monday even
ing, when members of both associations
will read interesting papers.
The headquarters of the associations will
be at the Arlington Hotel.
The sessions will be held at the Column
blan University except that of Tuesday
morning, when the lecture room at the Ma
tionaI Museum will be used, and next Sat
urday morning when the members of the
association will visit the Library of Con-
gress and there listen to the reading of
papers.
Papers to Be Read.
The reading of papers during the meet
ing will be limited to twenty minutes. Per-
sons not members of the association will
be admitted to the public sessions. The
program during the meeting Is as follows:
Friday evening, December q, o'clock,
at Columbian UniverSity-'I Industrial Lib
erty," by Prof. Richard I. Ely, president of
the American Economic Association: AN
Cndeveloped Function" by Mr.. Charles
Francis Adams, president of the American
Historical Association.
December 2s 1880 o'clock am, at the
Library of Congressman American School
of History at Rome" by Prof. Lucy NJ. Sal
mon, Fassar College; European Archives"
by Prof. George l.. Burr, Cornell Univer-
sity; THE Massachusetts Public Record
Commission and Its Work." by Mr. Robert
T. Swan, commissioner of public records of
Massachusetts,; The Relation of the Ma
toinal Library to Historical Research in the
United States" by Mr.. Herbert Putnam,
librarian of Congress.
December 2S, 80 pm. at Columbian
University: Edwards Amasa Park" by
President J. E. Rankin Howard Universe
ty; THE sandemanians of the Eighteenth
Century," by Prof WiIliston Walker, Yale
University; "Bytield Parish, Massachusetts,,
and Its First Three Pastorates, 1902 -1S25,'
by Prof ]. l.. Ewell, Howard University.
December 2s, s pm: Some Colonial
Court Records" by DR.. George E. Howard
of San Francisco; Relations Between
During the Seventeenth Century" by Prof.
Herbert L. Osgood of Columbia University;
THE Diplomatic Antecedents of the Louisi-
ana Purchase by Prof. Frederick ]. Tur-
ison and Religious Liberty" by Mr.. Gall
lard Hunt, Department of State.
December 30, 1880 am, The Spirit Of
sTna German Human a4manism' r;' by Prot Prof F. l. Ste
of the Erasmus Letters" by Prot. Ephraim
Emerton, Harvard University; Recent
Contributions to the History of the Pro-
testant Revolt" by Prof James Harvey
Robinson, Columbia University.
A Business Meeting.
business meeting will be held Monday
AFTERNOON at o'clock at Columbian Uni
yersity, at which reports Of committees Will
be read
December 80 s p.m.-Joint session with
the American Economic Association Co.
lumbian University. Party Legislation,
in Parliament, in Congress and in the
State Legislatures By Prof. A Lawrence
Lowell, Harvard University. Discussion.
Opened by Prof. Harry Pratt Judson, Uni
Sersity of Chicago. Historical Materialism
and the Economic Interpretation of His
tory" by Prof. Edwin r. A Seligman, Co.
lumbar University. Discussion. Opened
by Prof Isaac A Loos, University of Iowa.
and Prof. E. P. Cheyney, University of
Pennsylvania
December II, 1920 am, at National Mu-
seUn-'The Records of the London Com
pany," by President Lyon G. Tyler, William
and Mary College: The Relations of the
chant by Prof. John S. Bassett, Trinity
College; The Place of Nathaniel Macon in
Southern History by Prof. William E.
Dodd. Randolph-Macon College; Mary
lands First Courts by DR.. Bernard c..
Steiner. Johns Hopkins University; South
western History in the Southwest" by
Prof George p. Garrison, University of
Texas: closing reports and announcements.
Papers to be read by title-"Committees
OF Correspondence of the American Revo-
luton. by Edward d. Collins. Ph.D. Bar
on Landing, VT. Jays Treaty and the
Slavery interests of the United States"
by Frederic Austin Ogg. AN, Indianapo-
lis, Ind THE Public Services of Governor
Jacob D. Cox" by James r. Ewing, Ph. D.,
Washington.