class, during the nine months ending in September last visited the western section of the United States and Canada from Denver to the Pacific and from San Diego to the Yukon, and also Honolulu, the Philippines, Hong Kong, nine of the eighteen provinces of China, a good part of Japan, and portions of Manchuria and Korea. He was chairman of the section of the American Historical Association on relations with Mexico at its meeting in December, and read a paper on the subject. He is at work on a history of the war with Mexico, in preparation for which he has examined more than 100,000 documents.
Secretary, John M. Comstock, Chelsea, Vt. Justin H. Smith, the globe-trotter of the