74 REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



"The history of chemical minerals," by Prof. Charles E. Munroe, George 

 Washington University, is Vi^ell advanced and that part of it relating to 

 chemical minerals, including phosphate rock, w^ill probably be finished during 

 the present fall. 



"The history of fluorspar, graphite, etc.," by Prof. Ira A. Williams, Iowa 

 State College, Ames, Iowa, is making good progress and Professor Williams 

 reports that the first draft of the manuscript of the chapters assigned to him 

 is ready for final revision and editing. 



"The history of mining law," by William E. Colby, of San Francisco, has 

 been outlined, but is not yet finished. Mr. Colby is one of the chief assistants 

 of Mr. Curtis H. Lindley, probably the greatest authority on mining law in 

 the United States. 



It will thus be seen that a considerable part of the work of this division is 

 already in its final form. 



Division IV.— MANUFACTURES. 



Dr. Victor S. Clark reports that besides himself the following persons have 

 been engaged upon this portion of the Economic History during the past 

 year : 



Prof. M. B. Hammond spent the summer of 1909 visiting libraries in the 

 East, and in a trip through the manufacturing sections of the South, gath- 

 ering material for a history of cotton manufactures. 



Elmer A. Riley, of the University of Chicago, has prepared and presented 

 a monograph upon the origin and growth of manufactures in the district of 

 which Chicago is the immediate center. 



Mr. I. P. Lippincott, Washington University, St. Louis, has completed and 

 presented a monograph upon the history of manufactures in the central 

 Mississippi Valley. 



Mr. R. L. Douglas, of the State University of Kansas, has completed a 

 monograph upon the history of manufactures in the western prairie States. 



Mr. Julius Klein, of the State University of California, is just finishing a 

 similar monograph upon the manufactures of California. 



Dr. Francis Walker, of Washington, will prepare a history of prices of 

 American manufactures in the nineteenth century, with a comparison of 

 prices of secondary and primary manufactures and raw materials. 



Dr. Clark has devoted practically all of his time for some seven or eight 

 months of the past year to research work and to preparing some chapters of 

 his final monograph. He has made a personal search for material in the 

 public libraries of the United States as well as in the libraries of the British 

 Museum and the Public Records Office in London. He has a considerable 

 mass of typewritten notes and references, and the part dealing with the 

 history of manufactures before 181 5 is nearly ready for publication. Unfor- 



