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Examines factors that influences the formation of a guide to collection of manuscripts on American Indian available in the library of American Society. Historical background of the library; Forms of printed manuscript guides; Prerequisites of the guide.

This article focuses on literature related to the United States-Mexican border region. The United States-Mexicans border is a point where two diverse cultures meet and intermingle. Historians, public servants, legislators and others who are intimately concerned with the situation have long recognized the region as a somewhat unique area; the concept of uniqueness has been expressed in various ways, depending upon the orientation of the individual concerned. The author of the article informs that the purpose of the guide is to aid researchers dealing with contemporary situations. Within this concept one might legitimately include all historical works dealing with the area, since history is a continuum and conditions of the sixteenth century have had their influence on the institutions of today. But it would be manifestly impossible to include all historical writing on the area, and as a consequence an arbitrary line of distinction has been set; with few exceptions, and then only if the work is particularly applicable, the guide includes material dealing only with the period after Mexican independence.

Reveals materials for the study of French history in the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University. Acquisition policy of the library; Focus on printed source materials for the history of the Americas before 1801; Documentation of the history of New France; French travel and exploration.

The article reports on the assertion of the Southern Regional Education Board that a survey should be made to obtain information about programs for the gifted children in the U.S. which would give an indication of the needs for and content of teacher education. A wide range of administrative and curricular practices was being utilized by local schools and school systems in the education of the gifted. Most of the college training for teachers and administrators in the education of the gifted had been accomplished through short summer workshops.

The article offers news briefs related to bioscience in the U.S. A three-quarter acres of shoreline property in Guilford, Long Island was acquired by the Yale University of New Haven, Connecticut. Cedric L. Porter has retired as curator of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Arley T. Bever has been named as deputy planning director at the National Science Foundation.