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Professor Jenks has arranged with Professor Johnson to have one 

 of his assistants who is studying internal commerce make a special 

 report on the organization of the grain-handling business, especially 

 as shown in the elevators, and their relations one with another and 

 with produce exchanges and carriers. Professor Jenks is also work- 

 ing in conference with Professors Johnson and Gardner on subjects 

 that interlap with their special work. Professor Jenks was in the 

 far East when the work of the Department of Economics and Sociology 

 was taken up, and it was only after much delay that he was able to 

 begin active operations. 



Division X. — Social Legislation. 



Prof. H. W. Farnam, of Yale University, informs me that Mr. 

 George G. Groat has completed his study of the law relating to com- 

 binations in New York State, and that it was published last summer 

 as No. 3, Vol. XIX, of the Columbia University studies, Trade Unions 

 and the Law in New York. 



Miss Belva M. Herron is at work under Professor Farnam on a 

 study of the labor legislation of Illinois, and Mr. Nathaniel F. Soder- 

 berg on the labor legislation of Minnesota. 



Prof. J. L. Barnard is completing an investigation relative to the 

 factory laws of Pennsylvania, and Prof. J. E. Hagerty, of the Ohio 

 State University, is investigating the poor laws of his State. 



Mr. W. M. Adriance, a graduate student in Yale University, is 

 working on the operation of the mining laws of Pennsylvania and 

 has collected considerable material. 



Dr. F. R. Fairchild has made a study of the New York factory laws, 

 which is to be published by the American Economic Association. 



As .stated in Labor Movement, Professor Farnam is cooperating 

 with me in these matters, which in some respects belong to each of us. 



Division XI. — Federal and State Finance, including Taxation. 



Prof. Henry B. Gardner, in charge, has devoted his attention par- 

 ticularly to the question of State and local finance, which is a field 

 not hitherto worked. During the past year provision has been made 

 for a study of the financial history of the individual States and of the 

 more important cities — that is, those not already investigated. 

 Under this head the following investigators are working on the sub- 

 jects assigned them for their particular States or cities. 



Frederick A. Wood, Ph. D., Vermont. 



Prof. C. M. Brough, University of Arkansas. 



Prof. St. George L. Sioussat, University of the South. 



Prof. E. L. Bogart, Princeton University. 



Prof. W. A. Rawles, Indiana University. 



