14 FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

mond Times-Dispatch, October 10, 1948. He reviewed for the Maryland
Historical Magazine (XLIII, 319) Travels in the Confederate States by
E. Merton Coulter and for the Virginia Magazine of History and Geogra-
phy (LVII, 194) The Maryland Germans by Dieter Guns.

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES

The Archivist continued to serve on the Committee on Archival Build'
ings and Equipment of the Society of American Archivists, and Mr.
Skordas again held the position of Technical Editor of the American
Archivist. The Archivist spoke to the College Women's Club of Annap-
olis on "Annapolis before 1695" and on a similar subject to the Daughters
of Colonial Wars in Baltimore. The Hall of Records prepared for the
City of Hagerstown a suitable exhibit on the occasion of the visit to that
place of the Freedom Train. We also assisted the City of Oakland in
preparing for its Centennial, and the Archivist is now engaged in prepar-
ing a history of the Old Treasury Building to assist the architect and
builder in its restoration.

CIRCULATION

The number of visitors to the Hall of Records during the fiscal year
who actually used records—those who came as tourists or to visit special
exhibits are not counted—increased by a large margin over the previous
year as the table below will indicate. The fiscal year 1949 brought the
largest number of working visitors in our history: there were many more
counted during the first four years of the Hall of Records, but during
those years no distinction was made between researchers and tourists. It is
perhaps too early to predict that the slump in research during the war and
immediate post'war years is over, but we must hope so. Every archival
establishment has felt the frustration of having gathered together and
made available so many records unknown to earlier generations of scholars
in American History only to find them neglected.

The largest number of visitors came, as usual, from Maryland. The
next most numerous were as follows: District of Columbia, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. There were twenty-four states, the
District of Columbia and one foreign country represented.

Number of Visitors Fiscal Year 1947............ 1,023

Number of Visitors Fiscal Year 1948............ 995

Number of Visitors Fiscal Year 1949............ 1,308

The number of documents circulated during the year showed a pro-
portionate increase. The table below gives the exact number as well as