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Since it might be difficult to secure a meeting in Richmond as an eastern city the next year after meeting so near to it as Washington, it had been arranged, in response to the urgent invitation received from the Richmond members, that the twenty-fourth annual meeting, held on December 28, 29, 30 and 31, 1908, should be divided between Washington and Richmond. This year the American Economic Association met separately at Atlantic City. But the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association, it was determined, should meet first in Washington on the evening of Monday, December 28, and the forenoon of the next day, should then proceed to Richmond by special train on Tuesday afternoon, and should there resume their sessions and continue them through Thursday evening. The testimony of all seems to be that the meeting was among the best the Association has ever had; that of many has declared it the most successful of all. It may seem too American to appeal to the test of numbers, yet when less palpable evidences of success point in the same direction, it is no harm to say that whereas the highest registration hitherto recorded showed 280 members present (at the Providence meeting in 1906), on this latest occasion the registration amounted to 330 names; it was a matter of regret that so few-less than twenty-five-were present from the region south of Richmond and the Ohio River. The attractions and historic interest of Washington and Richmond, and their genial climate, doubtless had their part in bringing |