give information as to what kind of data the collection contained. Rev. Dr. B. A. Elzas, of Charleston, S. C., it is reported in the News and Courier of Oct. 5, was refused every. form of aid when he sought to learn about a specific point he was looking up. It is to be hoped all the material will be soon published.

RECOGNITION OF SPLENDID HISTORICAL WORK-Very properly the trustees of the State Department of Archives and History of Alabama at their last annual meeting, Oct. 1, 1903, passed a resolution of thanks to the Director, Mr. Thomas M.Owen, for the work he is doing in advancing the cause of history in that State. To Mr. Owen belongs the high and unique credit of being the first person to induce a Southern State to make a substantial annual appropriation for a historical department. Mississippi soon followed Alabama and there is hope that other Legislatures will soon do the same.

FAREWELL SPEECHES-It is reported that Mr. Thomas R. Martin, a lawyer of this city, has compiled the farewell speeches that the Southern Senators delivered in the Senate on their retirement from that body at the beginning of the Civil War. It is claimed that these addresses have never been put into print and that Mr. Martin has considerable difficulty in finding material, but this is a mistake as they can all be gathered from sources easily accessible to all.

A MEMORIAL TO MARION-At their annual meeting last April 15, 1903, in Charleston, the Huguenot Society of South. Carolina voted an appropriation of $50.00 for a tablet to General Francis Marion, to be placed in the Huguenot church of that city. General Marion is claimed as one of that famous stock.

THE DEATH OF GEN. EDWARD MCCRADY-General McCrady died in his home at Charleston, S. C., on the first of November, 1903, after an indisposition of a few days. His life has been a most active one in five fields, war, politics, church, law and history. His fame of course will rest mostly upon his labors in the last of which his monumental work on South Carolina's past was chief. Besides these four volumes, which took up long years of most devoted toil, he published a number of addresses and papers and pamphlets counting up more than twenty titles. He had been connected with various historical organizations and was at the end a vice-president of the American Historical Association and president of the South Carolina Historical Association. The fullest sketch of his career is found in a subscription volume of "eminent and representative men of the Carolinas in the nineteenth century," by W. R. Davie.

GENERAL G. H. THOMAS-Rev. J. W. Jones, in the Richmond Dispatch (reprinted in Charleston News, Oct. 4, 1903,) seeks to show that General Thomas, though a great commander, was ruled by his wife at the critical time of deciding whether to go with the Confederacy or remain in the Union. Mr. Jones claims that Thomas was at heart exactly like Lee on the question of secession but Thomas's wife, who was not a Southern woman, kept him in the regular army.

Dr. T. E. PICKETT, a Kentucky surgeon, is credited by the International Journal of Surgery (June, 1903) with being the first American to introduce into this country the French method of massage and mobilization in the treatment of fractures. Dr. Pickett attended medical lectures in Paris in 1894-95 and some time afterward read a paper on this new method before a local medical society in his State.

MR. WALTER L. FLEMING, of Auburn, Ala., has been chosen Associate Professor of History in the University of West Virginia. Mr. Fleming lectured in history in Columbia University last year, having previously studied there for some time.

HON. W. A. COURTENAY, who, it was stated in the September issue (p. 389), was "presumably" in charge of the historical portion of the official Year Book of Charleston, S. C., is no longer connected with that work, having given it up sometime previously.

INDEX TO VOL. VII.

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