^2 REJPORTS ON INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Financial history of Indiana: Prof. W. A. Rawles has been prevented 

 from making much progress with his work. 



Financial history of Iowa: No report has been received from Prof. Frank 

 I. Herriott. 



License taxes of the Southern States : Prof. H. A. Millis has been obliged 

 to temporarily abandon this work and has returned the funds advanced. 



Financial history of South Carolina : Mr. George McCutchen has made 

 no report. 



Financial history of Virginia: Mr. Edgar Sydenstricker has made no 

 report. 



Financial history of Vermont: Mr. Frederick A. Wood has made no re- 

 cent report, but the main portion of his work has been handed in. 



New assignments have been made as follows : 



The financial history of North Carolina, to Prof. W. K. Boyd, of Trinity 

 College, Durham, N. C. 



The financial history of New York, to Mr. Don C. Sowers, a graduate stu- 

 dent at Columbia University. 



The financial history of Pennsylvania was assigned to Prof. William Roy 

 Smith, of Bryn Mawr College, but he has been compelled to abandon the 

 work because of ill health. 



Professor Gardner hopes to get his preparatory material in by next June 

 and to apply for a leave of absence during the academic year 191 1 to 1912 

 in order to devote himself to this work. 



Division XII.— THE NEGRO IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM. 



Mr. Alfred H. Stone is still detained in Mississippi by his contest with the 

 boll weevil. He has had the misfortune to lose two boxes of papers, books, 

 and notes which were shipped from Washington. The railway company, 

 after prosecuting the search for more than a year, has given up further 

 effort. Mr. Stone will have the sympathy of his colleagues in this serious 

 loss, which goes beyond the pecuniary value of books and notes and includes 

 three chapters of his work practically completed and the skeletons of several 

 others. Fortunately he has not lost courage, but is prosecuting the work 

 with such material as he can use on his plantation. 



He reports as follows regarding the work done by his assistants : 

 The following works have been completed but not published : 



The free negro in Maryland. By J. M. Wright, Ph. D. 

 The free negro in Virginia. By C. H. Ambler, Ph. D. 

 The free negro in Louisiana. By Prof. E. P. Puckett. 

 The free negro in Philadelphia. By R. R. Wright, Ph. D. 



The following monographs are still unfinished : 



The economic transition from slavery to the free labor system. By W. L. 



Fleming, Ph. D. 

 The free negro in South Carolina. By Prof. Yates Snowden. 



