DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY * 



HfiNRY W. Farnam, Chairman. 



The work has proceeded throughout the year on the Hues followed in the 

 past. The negotiations with Prof. John R. Commons were brought to a 

 conclusion in April 19 lo, and he has now assumed formal charge of the 

 Division of Labor, which was originally under Colonel Wright. Under this 

 agreement Professor Commons is to have the use of $4,000 appropriated 

 from the general administration fund in addition to the balance of a little 

 over $3,000 left to the credit of the Division of Labor by Colonel Wright. 

 Professor Commons is at liberty to use for our purposes the material col- 

 lected by him under the auspices of the Bureau of Industrial Research ; also 

 material collected under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington in a subsequent and different presentation of the subject to be made 

 for the final volume or volumes of the Bureau of Industrial Research. The 

 details may be found in a memorandum on file in the office of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. 

 The progress of the several divisions is reported by their heads as follows : 



Division I.— POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION. 



Prof. Walter F. Willcox reports that the following works in his Division 

 have been published since last year: 



Chinese immigration. By Mary Roberts Coolidge. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 



pp. 531. 1909. 

 The German element in the United States. By Albert B. Faust. Houghton, 



Mifflin & Co., 2 vols., pp. 591 and 605, 1909. [A German translation is in 



preparation.] 



The following have been completed but not published : 



The economic status of the Syrians in the United States. By Louise S. Houghton. 

 The French contribution to the economic development of the United States. By 

 Louise S. Houghton. 



Professor Willcox hopes eventually to obtain a leave of absence from Cor- 

 nell University in order to devote his entire time to finishing the work of his 

 Division. 



Division II.— AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 



President Kenyon L. Butterfield reports that he has received a monograph 

 entitled "The economic characteristics of the agricultural industry," by Prof. 

 T. N. Carver, of Harvard University. 



♦Address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. (For previous reports see 

 Year Books Nos. 3-8, inclusive.) 



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