14 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT

tors from the Far East: Mr. Shih Chia Chu, an employee of the
National Library of China at Peiping, spent the day of December
17 in Annapolis, and on January 1,1947, we received a visit from
Mr. Sunilkumar Chakrovorti of the Imperial Record Office, New
Delhi, India.

Among the distinguished professional visitors from this
country were Miss Frances M. Hails and Miss Maude Kelly of
the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery,
Alabama, who came on October 30; Dr. Christopher Crittenden,
Director of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and
History on May 14, 1947; and Dr. Ernst Posner, Dean of the
Graduate School of American University, on the same day. On
June 2, Miss Anna Brooke Allan, Assistant to the Director of
the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North
Carolina, came to study our system of boxing and arranging
manuscript materials. Dr. Carl Bridenbaugh, Director of the In-
stitute of Early American History and Culture at Williams-
burg, spent the afternoon of June 30 with us.

For the first time since the beginning of the war, there were
a considerable number of academic historians who used the ma-
terials at the Hall of Records. It might be of interest to note
the subjects in which they were interested. Mr. Aubrey C. Land,
who is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, is writing
an account of Daniel Dulany, the Elder, and the growth of a
colonial fortune. Mr. Bruce Harley of the same school is study-
ing the matter of land speculation in Western Maryland in the
period immediately preceding the Revolution. Father Bernard D.
Haas, S. J., of Loyola University, Chicago, prepared a dissertation
dealing with the life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; Professor
Luther Bohanon of the University of Maryland is investigating
farm-land tenure in Maryland; and Sister M. Anthonita Hess,
C.P.P.S., is studying the American tobacco trade and our
diplomatic relations with Central Europe in the first half of the
nineteenth century.

At the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists
held in September 1946, Mr. Gust Skordas and Mr. Roger Thomas