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of education and abilit}-. His work has been interrupted by the 

 illness of his father, but he will undoubtedly carry it to its completion, 



]\Iiss E. G. Balch, instructor in economics in Wellesley College, 

 has undertaken a study of the histor}' of immigration from Austria- 

 Hungary, and of the conditions of the immigrants from that coun- 

 try in certain typical localities in the United States, while Prof. 

 Mary Roberts Smith, although not directly under the Division of 

 Population and Immigration, but working through a research assis- 

 tantship granted by the Carnegie Institution, is preparing a history 

 of Chinese immigration. 



Professor Willcox himself is carrying on an extended study in 

 race and immigration questions that will be very valuable for the 

 work of the Department of Economics and Sociology. I would 

 state, further, that Professor Willcox intends to make the work on 

 population and immigration something more than a statistical state- 

 ment, dealing largely with sociological results of immigration, and 

 especially, of course, with the economic results of the movement of 

 population, its projection along certain lines of settlement, etc. 



Division 2. Agriculture and Forestry, Inci^uding Pubuc Domain and 



Irrigation. 



President Kenyon L. Butterfield, in charge of this division, re- 

 ports that since assuming the work committed to him he has given 

 most of his thought to perfecting the plan of his investigation and 

 finding men to conduct various phases of his work. Under him, Prof. 

 T. N. Carver, of Harvard University, is studying the economic char- 

 acteristics of the agricultural industry ; Prof. F. W. Blackmar, of the 

 University of Kansas, the economic and social influences of irrigation ; 

 while Prof. J. E. Pope, of Columbia, Missouri, is co-operating with 

 the University of Missouri in a 'history and status of the economic 

 and social relations of the agricultural industry in Missouri. 



Mr. A. E. Sheldon, director of the field work of the Nebraska 

 Historical Society, is studying the history of land systems and land 

 policies in the West. Mr. R. H. Leavell, of the Mississippi Agri- 

 cultural College, is undertaking a study of the race factor in the 

 history and status of agriculture m the Mississippi valley. Mr. 

 Enoch Marvin Banks, of Palnietto, Georgia, is making a research 

 into the tendencies of land ownership in Georgia as revealed in the 

 county tax digests of that btate. Mr. Charles S. Potts is also en- 

 gaged in an intensive study of the history and status of the economic 

 and social relations of the agricultural industry in the Brazos valley. 



