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The Native Sons' Fellowships
vantage, and his "History of the North West Company" is already
listed for publication at the University of California.8
Dr. Charles H. Ounningham and Mr. Karl C. Leebrick were
appointed in 1915. The latter remained one year. A volume by
him, "The English Expedition to Manila in 1762," is soon to be
published. He also gathered materials for a catalogue, similar to
the present work, covering the Duplicados de Comandantes Gen-
erales in the Audiencia de Guadalajara group of the Simancas
papers.9
Dr. Cunningham remained two years in Spain, from, 1915 to
1917. He has a. volume on the Audiencia de Filipinas on the cal-
endar for publication at the University of California, and has also
been carrying on other institutional studies at Seville bearing upon
Spanish American history.*
The second fellowship, for 1916-1917 was awarded to Mr. T~acy
B. Kittredge, who almost immediately resigned. His place was
taken by Mr. George Leslie Albright. No finer young man or
more promising scholar even went forth from the University of
California than Mr. Albright. On December 15, 1915, he died
at Seville, a victim of typhoid fever. He had continued work at
the archive up to the day he was obliged to go to bed, and, to the
last, seemed chiefly concerned over the check in the progress of his
work. His volume on the Spanish frontier of New Spain and his
proposed catalogue of the viceroy's correspondence will never ap-
pear over his name, but a master's thesis written by him, entitled
Federal Explorations for Trans-continennental Railroads, has, been
found to be so meritorious that it will be published at the Uni-
versity of California."
Owing to the entrance of the United States into the war
against Germany, it has become impossible to send Fellows to
Europe for the present. Four Resident Fellows have therefore
8Dr. Davidson is now a lieutenant in the 19th Reserve Battalion of
Canadian Infantry, on service in France.
'In 1917, Dr. Leebrick was appointed Instructor in Modern European
History at the University of California.
*Dr. Cunningham is serving for the year 1917-1918 as instructor in
Spanish-American history at the University of Texas.
1At the Grand Parlor meeting of the Native Sons, held at Redding, in
April, 1917, a memorial estante, or legajo stack, to Mr. Albright was voted.
It will be placed in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville.393
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