238 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Haskins, Charles H. t Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 Grant No. 291 . Study of the documentary materials for Anglo- 

 Norman history. $1,000. 



As this grant was made in May, 1905, no regular report can yet 

 be made. Professor Haskins spent the month of July in preliminary 

 work in the archives and libraries of Normandy and Paris, and has 

 also begun a systematic exploration of the printed material. 



Phillips, Ulrich B. t University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 

 Grant No. 289. Study of the economic, social, and political phases 

 of the plantation system in the ante-bellum South. (Continuation 

 of Grant No. 193.) $300. 



Dr. Phillips has carried on his researches in the various collections 

 at Madison, and at Louisville, Kentucky; Atlanta, Athens, Savannah, 

 and Milledgeville, Georgia ; Columbia and Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina, and at several intermediate points in the South. This work is 

 largely with original documentary material of which little is indexed 

 or organized in any way, and as the field of interest is a great and 

 complex one, the policy of carrying along several lines of inquiry at 

 the same time has been pursued. By this means it is hoped to secure 

 in notes or copied documents the whole body of significant items for a 

 study in the manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper files, etc., through 

 which it is necessary to go. The chief subjects of inquiry have been : 

 The plantation system, the fluctuations of slave prices and the eco- 

 nomic phases of slave labor, the Southern Federalists and the Southern 

 Whigs and their relation to the plantation interest, and incidentally 

 the career of William H. Crawford. Dr. Phillips has published during 

 the year a preliminary article upon the ' ' Economic cost of slave- 

 holding in the cotton belt" in the Political Science Quarterly, and 

 has in preparation an article upon the growth of the plantation ' ' black 

 belts " and an article and a collection of documents on the course of 

 William H. Crawford. 



Scott, G. W. t Washington, D. C. Grant No. 275. Study of private 

 claims against foreign nations to which the United States has bee?i a 

 party. (Continuation of Grants Nos. 60 and 141.) $1,200. 



The research on the subject of the law of private pecuniary claims 

 against the state has been continuously prosecuted during the past 

 year and has progressed as rapidly as could reasonably be expected 

 under all the circumstances. The work of gathering data on the 

 law of claims against the United States Federal and State govern- 

 ments was interrupted by a journey abroad to ascertain the bibli- 



