us all unite to make the record complete.
Correspondence may be directed to this office."

The following important announcement appeared in the December number
of the _Crisis_:

TERCENTENARY

The husband of Pocahontas wrote in 1619: "_About the last of August
came a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars_." From this
beginning sprang the present twelve million Americans of Negro
descent.

Next August will mark the Three Hundredth Anniversary of this vast
transplantation of a race, which ranks easily as one of the most
significant movements of mankind. Such an event can hardly be
"celebrated," for it connoted too much of misery and human sorrow. On
the other hand, it is too stern and meaningful a happening to be
forgotten. For this reason, a group of thirty-three colored men met in
New York, October 19, 1918, at the invitation of a committee appointed
by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

They determined to inaugurate "A Solemn Memorial of the Tercentenary
of the Transplanting of the Negro race to the United States." In
order, however, to give all sections and interests of the Negro race
adequate voice and representation in these plans, this committee set
about choosing a Committee of "Three Hundred and More," in whose hands
the Memorial will take final shape. This Committee is now being chosen
and will meet in New York early in January, 1919.

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The _Linchoten Vereeniging_ has published for Mr. E. C. Godee
Mossbergen two volumes of _Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse
Tijd_.

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From the press of Longsman two volumes bearing on Africa have been
published. One is by Sir Hugh Clifford, entitled the _German
Colonies_, with special relation to the native population of Africa.
The other, by H. C. O'Neill, is the _War in Africa and the Far East_,
dealing largely with the conquest of the German colonies.

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company have published a study entitled _Lincoln
in Illinois_ by Miss Octavia Roberts. This work is largely a
compilation of the recollections of his contemporaries.

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To extend the work of the Association the Director of Research is now
making an effort to secure the cooperation of five persons who, like
Mr. Julius Rosenwald, will contribute $400 annually to the support of
this ca