164 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Division V. — Transportation. 



Prof. B. H. Meyer, one of the railroad commissioners of Wisconsin, 

 who had assisted Professor Ripley originally in charge of the division, 

 is now in full charge, but the change caused some delay. During 

 the past year Mr. Meyer employed Mr. R. J. Usher, a student of the 

 University of Wisconsin, to collect notes on the basis of which the 

 Congressional history of railroads could be written. 



Dr. G. G. Tunell, now with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 

 Railway, has undertaken to prepare the history of commerce and 

 transportation on the Great I_,akes, while Dr. F. A. Cleveland, of 

 New York, is actively engaged in assisting Professor Meyer. Much 

 progress has been made in the collection of literature and official data, 

 but the collection of original material has not progressed very far. 



Division VI. — Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 



During the past year seven men have been assisting Prof. Emory 

 R. Johnson in charge of the division. 



Prof. J. Russell Smith has completed his monograph on the organ- 

 ization of ocean commerce, and it was published early in 1905 by the 

 University of Pennsylvania with due acknowledgment of the aid 

 received from the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Since the 

 publication of that monograph Professor Smith has been rounding 

 out the historical portions of his investigation by making a study of 

 the history of line and charter traffic, history of the relations of rail 

 and water carriers, and history of combination and consolidation of 

 ocean carriers. 



The history of the consular service as relating to commerce has 

 been completed practically b}- Mr. Chester L,loyd Jones. 



Mr. Walter Sheldon Tower and Prof. Raymond McFarland are 

 working upon the history of American fisheries. Professor McFar- 

 land has submitted the first two sections of his manuscript. 



The study of the commercial legislation of the American colonies 

 in the United States has been undertaken by Mr. Albert A. Giesecke. 

 He has examined the commercial legislation of each of the thirteen 

 colonies during their entire history up to 1789. He has also studied 

 and charted the main provisions of the legislation of the colonies. 



The work upon the history of the coastwise commerce of the United 

 States, being prepared by Mr. Thomas Conway, jr., has made sub- 

 stantial progress during the year. 



The subject of marine insurance has been treated in a monograph 

 of about 25,000 words by Dr. S. Huebner. This monograph has 

 been published by the American Academy of Political and Social 



