DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 



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INDEX OF STATE DOCUMENTS. 



Kentucky and Delaware have been added to the list of States for which 

 the index has been completed by Miss Hasse. These were published by the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1910, and contain 452 and 137 pages 

 respectively. 



The following is a complete list of States published, with year of publica- 

 tion : 



California 1908 



Delaware 1910 



Illinois 1909 



Kentucky 1910 



Maine 1907 



Massachusetts 1908 



New Hampshire 1907 



New York 1907 



Rhode Island 1908 



Vermont 1907 



It will be seen that substantial progress has been made during the past 

 year in almost all of the Divisions, and every effort will be made to bring 

 the work to a conclusion at as early a date as possible. 



SUMMARY. 



It will be observed that the work of the Department thus far undertaken 

 is of two distinct types: (1) Bibliographical; (2) Scholarly or Scientific. 



The Index to State Documents falls in the first class and is analogous to 

 the work which is being prosecuted by the Department of Historical Re- 

 search. It is avowedly an aid to future workers. Most of our work falls 

 in the second class and is analogous to the detailed studies made in the labo- 

 ratories and observatories of the other departments of the Institution. Each 

 study covers a limited field intensively. 



The Department of Economics and Sociology differs, however, from the 

 other departments of the Institution in two respects : In the first place it has 

 undertaken a specific piece of work, namely, a systematic, orderly, scholarly 

 series of Contributions to the Economic History of the United States. Thus, 

 while its monographic work is extensive and, for the most part, valuable, it 

 is treated by the department as preparatory to the larger undertaking. The 

 greater part of it is unpublished, not because it lacks merit, but because of 

 the difficulty of securing the publication of studies of this kind, which, how- 

 ever great their value to scholars, can not be expected to meet with large 

 sales. 



The second distinction between this department and the others is that it 

 has relied to a large extent upon volunteer or only partly paid workers. 

 This feature of its organization is to a certain extent necessitated by the kind 

 of task which it has undertaken. A work projected upon so large a scale 

 could not possibly have been carried out on the ordinary economic principle 

 of paying the market price for work done, except at a very high cost. The 

 insignificance of the sums spent in proportion to the results is obvious to 

 any one who will take the trouble to make a simple calculation. Apart from 

 the Index and the Administration expenses, the total amount spent on re- 



