FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY
Society for lire History 8 Germans in Maryland,
Mr. President:
The Annual .Report of your Secretary, it being the fourteenth of the existence of the Society, will of a necessity be conspicuous by its brevity.
The past year has been one of comparative great quietness in the history of this Society. But one original article was read at our monthly meetings, and even that only by the courtesy of a gentleman not a member of this body, and as the article referred to was prepared for a different object, it did not become the property of this organization.
Portions of the second volume of Mr. II. Schuricht’s manuscript, “ History of the Early Germans in Virginia,” were read at some of the meetings and the whole ordered to be printed by the Executive Committee. It still remains, together with other documents, in the hands of the printer.
It has become quite evident by the wide aud general interest, which the first volume of this work evoked, that this Society, by enabling the lamented author in the publication of this history and thus bringing it upon the market, has thereby accomplished a very important part toward the object of its original organization, viz : to bring to general notice the merits of