l68 REPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Prof. W. A. Burke, Albion College. 



Prof. C. C. Plehn, University of California. 



Prof. N. A. Weston, University of Illinois. 



Prof. J. A. Tillingbast, Converse College. 



Prof. Charles L,ee Raper, University of North Carolina. 



Mr. Laurence M. Larson, West Division High School. 



Mr. R. V. Phelan, graduate student, University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. W. O. Scroggs, graduate student. Harvard University. 



Mr. J. W. Ellison, principal Wheat Ridge Schools, Colorado. 



Prof. F. G. Young, University of Oregon. 



Prof. James Boyle, University of North Dakota. 



Mr. E. T. Miller, instructor in political science. University of Texas. 



Mr. W. T. Nardin, graduate student, University of Missouri. 



Mr. H. S. Hanna, graduate student, Johns Hopkins University. 



Prof. Frank I. Herriott, Drake University. 



Mr. G. Gerald Bechtel, Butte High School. 



Miss J. A. Flisch, under direction of Mr. U. B. Phillips. University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. C C. Williamson, graduate student, University of Wisconsin. 



Professor Gardner also has in preparation a card index of mate- 

 rial bearing on the history of State and local finance. He is also 

 collecting material for certain special studies, like the public revenue 

 and expenditure — national. State, and local. In this he has the aid 

 of William Jones, Ph. D., the work now being practically completed. 



As announced in my report for last year, a committee was consti- 

 tuted to take in charge the preparation of a bibliography. This 

 committee consisted of Messrs. North, Gardner, and Dewey, origi- 

 nally, and now of Messrs. Gardner and Dewey. Their first work is 

 the indexing of State documents, governors' messages, and reports of 

 executive officers and special committees for the purpose of ascer- 

 taining the references to financial matters. This work has been 

 undertaken by Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, document cataloguer of the 

 New York Public Library. This index will be available for all 

 students engaged in the preparation of the " economic history," as 

 well as the divisions of " money and banking and finance." 



I feel sure that the undertaking authorized by the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington relative to an economic history of the United 

 States will be, when completed, satisfactory. The project of the 

 work has been received with enthusiasm by economists and his- 

 torians, although some of the latter seem to feel that the work of 

 the Department of Economics and Sociology should be devoted more 

 specifically to the collection and publication of material rather than 

 to the writing of a history. 



The great associations — the American Economic Association and 

 the American Historical Association — have evinced much interest in 

 this work, as was shown by the fact that a joint committee (repre- 

 senting the two bodies) invited me to deliver an address before the 



