REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 55 



ECONOMICS. 



Report of Department of Economics and Sociology. 



By Carroli, D. Wright. 



For the present purposes of the department the following named 

 eleven divisions have been established, and the gentlemen whose 

 names appear have been placed in charge of them, respectively : 



Division i. Population and Immigration. — Prof. Walter F. Willcox, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Division 2. Agriculture and Forestry, including Public Domain and Irriga- 

 tion. — President Kenyon L,. Butterfield, Rhode Island College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, R. I. 



Division 3. Mining. — Mr. E. W. Parker, Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Division 4. Manufactures. — Hon. S. N. D. North, Census Office, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Division 5. Transportation. — Prof. W. Z. Ripley, Newton Centre, Mass. 



Division 6. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. — Prof. Emory R. Johnson, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Division 7. Money and Banking. — Prof. Davis R. Dewey, Institute of Tech- 

 nology-, Boston, Mass. 



Division 8. The Labor Movement. — Carroll D.Wright, i429New York avenue, ' 

 Washington, D. C. 



Division 9. Industrial Organization. — Prof. J. W. Jenks, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca. N. Y. 



Division 10. Social L,egislation, including Provident Institutions, Insurance, 

 Poor Laws, etc. — Prof. Henry W. Farnam, 43 Hillhouse avenue, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Division 11. Federal and State Finance, including Taxation.— Prof. Henry B. 

 Gardner, 54 Stimson avenue. Providence, R. I. 



These divisions are actively engaged, except Division 9, in charge 

 of Prof. J. W. Jenks, who since the creation of the department has 

 been in the far East and 'has onl}- just returned. The progress of 

 their respective activities can best be understood by stating for each 

 the substance of reports which 'have been made to me. 



Division i. Population and Immigration. 



Prof. Walter F. Willcox, in charge of this division, reports that 

 upon the topic of immigration an index to Niles' Register is being 

 prepared under the immediate supervision of Prof. Davis R. Dewey, 

 and a competent graduate student, fwho 'is carefully indexing the ma- 

 terial in the library of Cornell University, which library is very rich 

 in the field to be covered. This work is practically completed, and a 

 sttrdy of the history of Federal legislation dealing with immigration 

 begun. I may say that the indexing of Niles' Register and other 

 works is being so conducted as to avoid duplication under the differ- 

 ent divisions. 



A study of the history of Russian immigration is being conducted 

 by M. E. Goldenweiser, of Columbia University, a Russian Jew 



