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tunately, his work will be interrupted for some time, on account of an 

 appointment which he has accepted to take charge of the Territorial Census 

 of Hawaii and to prepare the quinquennial report to Congress, He esti- 

 mates that this work will occupy the greater part of his time for the coming 

 year, but he has left his notes, papers, and other materials in Washington in 

 charge of Dr. Francis Walker, who, as stated above, is to carry forward some 

 investigations during Dr. Clark's absence. 



Division V.— TRANSPORTATION. 



Prof. B. H. Meyer, of the University of Wisconsin, states that the follow- 

 ing papers have been published since the last report : 



Railroad promotion and capitalization, by Cleveland and Powell, pp. xiv + 368. 1909. 

 Transportation and industrial development in the Middle West, by William F. Gephart,. 



Ph. D., Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, vol. 



XXXIV, Nov., 1909. New York. pp. 274. 

 Railroad transportation in Texas, by Charles S. Potts, University of Texas, Bulletin No. 



119, pp. 214. 



Besides those mentioned above, nine monographs had been previously pub- 

 lished and five completed but not published. The following eight are still 

 unfinished : 



History of the Illinois Central Railroad, by H. G. Brownson. 



History of the granger movement, by Solon J. Buck. 



Canadian railways in their relation to railways in the United States, by S. J. McLean. 



Financial history of railroads, by F. A. Cleveland (vol. 2). 



Transportation in the western cotton belt, by U. B. Phillips. 



History of transportation on the Great Lakes, by Geo. G. Tunnell. 



The development of transportation in California and the growth of the transcontinental 



business, by Allyn A. Young. 

 Development of transportation in the Pacific Northwest, by Frederick G. Young. 



Division VI.— DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. 



Prof. Emory R. Johnson, of the University of Pennsylvania, reports that 

 the following studies have been completed during the past year: 



The foreign policy of the United States, by Dr. Albert S. Giesecke. 

 The foreign trade of the United States, Drs. S. and G. G. Huebner. 



Dr. Thomas Conway, jr., is at work, with the aid of his sister, upon the 

 "History of the coastwise commerce of the United States," which he hopes 

 to complete by the end of the present year. 



Professor Johnson has made some progress with the writing of that part 

 of the history dealing with the period prior to 1789. He has secured a leave 

 of absence from the University of Pennsylvania, to date from February i, 

 1910, to the latter part of September of that year, and he hopes to give his- 

 entire time to writing the History of Commerce during that period. 



