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the members. The aims and ideas of the
Association are
fairly set forth in the following
statement:
"The constitutional object of the
organization is the pro-
motion of historical studies. The
primary motive for member-
ship is therefore scientific. The
Association has accomplished
results that can not be estimated by any
pecuniary standard
of value. It has encouraged original
research by its meetings
and publications; it has brought
historical students and spe-
cialists together; it has caused a more
frequent exchange of
ideas among them, and it has awakened
greater public inter-
est in historical studies. The present
enthusiasm for history,
not only in American colleges and
universities, but in the
States at large, is in no small degree
the fruit of the American
Historical Association."
What our Society has been striving amid
great difficulties
to do for Ohio history and its study,
the American Historical
Association is doing in a wider field.
It is to be hoped that
both will continue to grow in membership
and in usefulness.
THE ANNUAL AND MONTHLY MEETINGS.-The
next annual
meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and
Historical Society,
instead of occurring at the regular time
in February, will be
held at Marietta, in April, in
connection with the Centennial
celebration. The Society will present no
special program of
its own, but will join in the exercises
commemorative of the
centennial of the settlement of the
Northwest Territory. The
full program of these exercises will
appear in the March
QUARTERLY.
The monthly meetings of the Society at
Columbus will be
resumed early in the New Year, and
addresses will be deliv-
ered during the winter by Professor
Cyrus Thomas, Professor
F. W. Putnam, Dr. B. A. Hinsdale and
others. These
papers will be printed full or in
abstract in the QUARTERLY,
thus enabling all members of the Society
who cannot attend
the meetings to know the main features
of the addresses.
In view of the peculiar interest
attaching to the coming cel-
ebrations of 1888, it is expected that
these meetings and
addresses will be unusually attractive.