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chairman of the Conference on Latin American History of the American 
Historical Association. 

J. PRESTON MOORE of Louisiana State University, author of The cabildo in 
Peru under the Hapsburgs (Durham, N . C , 1954), is at present in Peru 
studying municipal documentation of the eighteenth century. 

E M I L I O RODRIGUEZ DEMORIZI has been named rector of the University of 
Santo Domingo. 

ROBERT C. MEAD of the University of Connecticut is the new director of 
the review Hispania, the official journal of the Association of Professors of 
Spanish and Portuguese of the United States. 

PHILIP C. BROOKS of the National Archives, San Francisco Branch, has 
been appointed director of the new Truman Library in Independence, 
Missouri. 

R E C E N T D E A T H S 

V I T O ALESSIO ROBLES 

Died in Mexico City in June, 1957, at the age of 78 years. H e was born 
in Saltillo, Coahuila, and concentrated his historical studies in the northern 
provinces of Mexico, in particular, Coahuila and Texas. His Coahuila y 
Texas en la epoca colonial (Mexico, 1938) is one of the most outstanding 
works to come from his pen. Alessio Robles edited editions of many works 
of fundamental importance for the history of northern Mexico, such works 
as the Viaje de Indios and the Diario de Nuevo Mexico of Fray Agustin 
de Morfi (Mexico, 1936); Demostracion del vastisimo obispado de la 
Nueva Vizcaya by Bishop Don Pedro Tamaron Romeral (Mexico, 1937); 
the Relacion del viaje of Nicolas de Lafora (Mexico, 1939), and the Diario 
y Derrotero of Pedro de Rivera (Mexico, 1946). 

CLAUDE G. BOWERS 

Died in N e w York City in January, 1958. H e was both a historian and 
a diplomat. As a historian he is considered a top authority on Thomas 
Jefferson. His books on Lincoln and his era have won wide appreciation. As 
United States ambassador to Spain (1933-1939) he wrote the controversial 
Mission in Spain. His diplomatic mission in Chile (1939-1953) produced 
his Chile through embassy eyes. 

GUSTAVO OTERO MUNOZ 

On August 24, 1957, Gustavo Otero Munoz, a permanent member of the 
Colombian Academy of History, archivist, librarian, and author of many 
books and articles on Colombian history, died in Bogota. H e was born in 
Bucaramanga (Department of Santander) on February 17, 1894. His copious 
bibliographic production up to 1953—14 books, three pamphlets, five 
volumes of compilations, 210 articles, two published reports, 34 discourses 
and conferences, and ten prologues—can be seen detailed in the Bibliografia 
Academic a by Enrique Ortega Ricaurte (Bogota, 1953).