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been collecting material and has niade personal research on various 

 points. Mr. A. D. Adams, of the Harvard Law School, is studying 

 the early pooling of freight traffic, while Professor Meyer, of Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin, will arrange the history of railway legislation, 



Mr. S. Daggett has nearly completed a study of railway reorgani- 

 zations, while Dr. T. W. Mitchell, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 is working on early railroad finance. Prof. A. Pope, of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, is engaged on some historical matters concerning 

 the railroads of that State. 



Dr. Ripley himself has been working on the history of rate^making 

 systems in the Southern States, which he will follow by a comparison 

 of the history in the trunk-line territory. He has had a number of 

 'men working during the summer who have not yet turned in the 

 results of their labors, but he is making satisfactory progress in his 

 division. 



Division 6. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 



Prof. Emory R. Johnson, of the University of Pennsylvania, who 

 is in dharge of this division, has been actively engaged personally and 

 throug^h various assistants. He 'has with him Mr. A. A. Giesecke, of 

 the graduate department of the University of Pennsylvania, who is 

 assisting in the study of the American merchant marine. 



The subject of American foreign trade is being ably investigated 

 by Mr. S. Hulbner, assistant in the Department of Commerce of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. This gentleman has collected a large 

 amount of statistical and other data for the period from 1789 to the 

 present time. He will study the colonial period after the national 

 period has been covered. 



The history of American coastwise commerce is being studied by 

 Mr.' Thomas Conway, jr.. a Harrison scholar in the graduate de- 

 partment of the University O'f Pennsylvania. Mr. Conway has nearly 

 exhausted the printed sources of information for the years since 

 1789, and is now studying the economic influences of commercial 

 organization as derived from trade journals and other sources of 

 information, original and otherwise. There is a great lack of official 

 statistics in this direction ; consequently much must be ascertained 

 from original research. 



Dr. J. R. Smith, instructor in commerce at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been at work upon the organization and adminis- 

 tration of commerce ; be has enlarged the scope of his studies some- 

 what and is to prepare a monograph for our purpose. 



