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Division IV.— MANUFACTURES. 



Dr. Victor S. Clark has been in the Hawaiian Islands during the greater 

 part of the year, where he has had charge of the United States census and 

 of other government work. A study of the prices of raw materials and of 

 manufactured commodities during the nineteenth century, which is being 

 undertaken by Dr. Francis Walker, of the Bureau of Corporations, U. S. 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, is partly finished. Dr. Clark has not 

 yet completed his work in the Hawaiian Islands, but expects to have some 

 time during the coming year to devote to his Division, and has accordingly 

 had his papers and books shipped to Honolulu in order that he may be able 

 to work upon them there. 



Division V.— TRANSPORTATION. 



Prof. B. H. Meyer reports the publication within the year of the following : 



Congressional history of railroads. By Lewis H. Haney. Vol. 2, 1850 to 1897, 

 Madison, 1910, pp. 335. 



The following study is finished but not published : 



Transportation in the Pacific Northwest. By Prof. F. G. Young. Part I. 



The following monographs are still unfinished : 



The Granger movement. By Solon J. Buck. 



Financial history of railroads, vol. 2. By F. A. Cleveland. 



Canadian railways in their relation to railways in the United States. By S. J. 

 MacLean. 



Transportation in the Western cotton belt. By Prof. U. B. Phillips. 



History of transportation on the Great Lakes. By George G. Tunnell. 



The development of transportation in California and the growth of the trans- 

 continental business. By AUyn A. Young. 



Development of transportation in the Pacific Northwest. By Frederick G. Young. 



Professor Meyer is at work upon the first part of the final report and 

 hopes that the first volume of it will be ready in a year. 



Division VI.— DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. 



Prof. Emory R. Johnson reports the publication of the following mono- 

 graphs : 



American commercial legislation before 1789. By Albert A. Giesecke. Publica- 

 tions of the University of Pennsylvania, pp. 175. 1910. 



History of New England fisheries. By Raymond McFarland. Publications of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. September 1910. About 400 pages. 



The following has been completed but not published : 



History of the foreign trade of the United States. By Drs. S. S. and G. G. Huebner. 



The history of the American coastwise commerce, by Dr. Thomas Con- 

 way, jr., is nearly completed. 



Professor Johnson has been finishing some work that he was already com- 

 mitted to, but expects to devote all of his available time now to completing 

 the work of his Division and hopes to have the first half of it in final form 

 by the end of 191 1. 



