T H E AMERICAN ARCHIVIST October, 1941 Published quarterly by THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS D ow nloaded from http://m eridian.allenpress.com /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.4.4.j66prq2475372530 by C arnegie M ellon U niversity user on 06 A pril 2021 THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS Officers W A L D O GIFFORD LELAND, fresident P H I L I P COOLIDGE BROOKS, secretary H E R B E R T A. KELLAR, vice fresident J U L I A N PARKS BOYD, treasurer Council Members ROBERT DIGGES W I M B E R L Y CONNOR MARGARET CROSS NORTON W I L L I A M D. M C C A I N MORRIS L. RADOFF LAWRENCE COUNSELMAN WROTH THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST Editorial Board CHRISTOPHER BUSH COLEMAN EDNA LOUISE JACOBSEN L U T H E R HARRIS EVANS H E R B E R T INGRAM PRIESTLEY THEODORE CALVIN PEASE, managing editor T H E UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, sfonsor THE AMERICAN ARCHIVIST is published quarterly in the months of January, April, July, and October by the Society of American Archivists at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. Subscription price five dollars per year. Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1938, at the post office at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1879. All contributions should be addressed to the Editor, 418 Lincoln Hall, Urbana, Illinois. Sub- scriptions and communications should be sent to 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or the Secretary, Box 6154, Washington, D.C. D ow nloaded from http://m eridian.allenpress.com /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.4.4.j66prq2475372530 by C arnegie M ellon U niversity user on 06 A pril 2021 T H E AMERICAN ARCHIVIST OCTOBER, 1941 Volume IV Number 4 Published quarterly by T H E SOCIETY O F A M E R I C A N ARCHIVISTS D ow nloaded from http://m eridian.allenpress.com /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.4.4.j66prq2475372530 by C arnegie M ellon U niversity user on 06 A pril 2021 CONTENTS Baldassare Bonifacio and His Essay De Archivis LESTER K. BORN 221 The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . . H E L E N DUPREY BULLOCK 238 A Ten Year Experiment in Archival Practices R U T H K. NUERMBERGER 250 Some Problems of State Archival Administration C. C. CRITTENDEN 262 The Archives of New York EDWARD F. ROWSE 267 Extension Service Records in Alabama . . . CHARLES S. DAVIS 275 Reviews of Books John M. Gaus and Leon O. Wolcott, Public Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture THEODORE R. SCHELLENBERG 281 Lloyd A. Brown, Notes on the Care and Cataloguing of Old Maps ELIZABETH T. PLATT 283 J. B. Speer, Functional File Classification DAVID C. DUNIWAY 284 Preliminary Inventory of the War Industries Board Records C. C. CRITTENDEN 286 Margaret Ells, compiler, A Calendar of the White Collec- tion of Manuscripts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia; and, Historical Records Survey, Calendar of the Stevens Family Papers GRACE L E E N U T E 287 Heinrich Otto Meisner, Der Archivar CARL LUDWIG LOKKE 288 Margaret C. Norton, "Archives and Libraries, a Compari- son Drawn" WILLIAM J. VAN SCHREEVEN 291 Shorter Notices 293 News Notes 296 iii D ow nloaded from http://m eridian.allenpress.com /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.4.4.j66prq2475372530 by C arnegie M ellon U niversity user on 06 A pril 2021