PROFESSOR FOSTER DISCOVERS INTERESTING MANUSCRIPT

During- investigations in the British Museum and the archives of Geneva, Professor Foster last summer was enabled to co-operate in the identification of an unknown manuscript chronicle of Geneva which he discovered in London in 1908. The manuscript corrections he was able at that time to identify as those of Professor Godefroy of Geneva. In 1922 through photostats of pages of the manuscript compared with others in the Genevan state archives it was possible to identify through both handwriting and the contents of the "Cronique" that the manuscript of over 700 pages lying in the British Museum was the long-lost chronicle written by Councillor Perrin of Geneva early in the 17th century, and suppressed by the council because too indiscreet, or perhaps too frank, in its revelations of the internal history of the little republic. The discovery and identification reported to the Genevan Society of History and Archaeology by Professor Borgeaud of the University and by the state archivist are described by Professor Rockwell of Union Seminary as an interesting bit of contribution of American scholarship to European history.