8o REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



second list of manuscripts completed but not published. It has collected all 

 the material previous to 1850, and is in a position to commence the prepara- 

 tion of the final volumes as soon as the most important of the unfinished man- 

 uscripts have been turned in. 



Dr. Meyer feels that several special studies might be undertaken with very- 

 great benefit to the work of the division and the Department, provided more 

 money than can be spared him could be appropriated. This difficulty, how- 

 ever, can probably be met by a redivision of the allotments. 



There are at work as associates of Professor Meyer 9 assistants. 



Division 6. — Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 



Prof. Emory R. Johnson, of the University of Pennsylvania, in charge of 

 this division, reports that his assistants on the subject of domestic and for- 

 eign commerce have made satisfactory progress. Dr. J- Russell Smith has 

 completed his study on the History of the Organization of Ocean Commerce, 

 and his work, somewhat enlarged, has been published serially in the Railway 

 Age-Gazette, under the title of "The ocean carrier." This work will soon 

 appear in book form. 



Mr. Raymond McFarland, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and Dr. Walter 

 Sheldon Tower, of the University of Pennsylvania, have completed a mono- 

 graph on the History of American Fisheries. Their work, together with Dr. 

 Tower's monograph on the History of the Whale Fisheries of the United 

 States, published by the University of Pennsylvania, covers the entire field of 

 the economic history of American fisheries. 



Dr. G. G. Huebner has devoted a large part of his time during the past 

 year to work on the History of the Foreign Trade of the United States, and 

 has nearly completed the first draft of his work. His manuscript is practi- 

 cally finished, and needs only final revision. 



Dr. Thomas Conway, Jr., has been at work on the History of the Coastwise 

 Commerce of the United States. He began his work over three years ago, 

 and it is still incomplete on account of his inability to give a larger amount of 

 time to his investigations, but he hopes to be able to finish the work the 

 present calendar year. 



Dr. A. A. Giesecke continues his work on the History of American Com- 

 mercial Policy. The section of this work dealing with the Colonial period 

 has been thoroughly revised and rewritten and was accepted as a doctor's 

 thesis at Cornell University last June. 



The Commercial Policy of the United States since 1789 will take sometime 

 to complete, and it may be a full year before it reaches completion. 



The number of assistants at w^ork with Professor Johnson is 7. 



