160 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT.* 

 By Carroll D. Wright. 



In the report of this department, as printed in Year Book No. 3, 

 1904, I presented so fully the details of the division of work and of 

 what was being done that it does not seem advisable to repeat these 

 features. 



There has been a change in collaborators in the division relating 

 to Manufactures, originally under the charge of Hon. S. N. D. North, 

 Director of the Census, and in Transportation, under Prof .William Z. 

 Ripley, of Harvard University. At the request of the collaborators, 

 I took over the work of the Division of Manufactures, and at a like 

 suggestion Prof. B. H. Meyer, of the University of Wisconsin, who 

 had been aiding Professor Ripley, took over the work of Transpor- 

 tation. The work under all the divisions is now being vigorously 

 prosecuted and with gratifying results. Some additional statements 

 to those made last year may be of interest. 



Division I. — Population and Immigration. 



Prof. Walter F. Willcox in charge has brought out certain reports 

 of great value to this division, under the auspices of the Census 

 Bureau, and for which the Carnegie Institution of Washington has 

 incurred no direct responsibility or expense. The publications are : 



Census Bulletin No. 4. Discussion of Increase of Population. 



8. Negroes in the United States. 

 14. Proportion of the Sexes in the United States. 



22. Proportion of Children in the United States. 



23. Census Statistics of Teachers. 



An article on the " Probable Increase of the Negro Population of the United 

 States," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for_ August, 1905. 



The index to Niles Register, to which allusion was made last year, 

 and the index to the material in Cornell University have been com- 

 pleted, as well as a careful study of the history of Federal legislation 

 on the subject of immigration. 



The study of the history of Russian immigration is by a Russian 

 Jew of education and ability, Mr. E. A. Goldenweiser. 



The study of the history of immigration from Austria-Hungary 

 to the United States has been progressing satisfactorily. Miss K. G. 



* Grant No. 222. 130,000 for investigations relative to an economic history of 

 the United States. (For first report see Year Book No. 3, pp. 55-64.) 



