DEPARTMENT OE ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 85 



The following articles have been contributed during 1907-08 : 



Home ownership and savings among negroes of Philadelphia. 



Negro rural communities of Indiana and Ohio. 



Negro communities of New Jersey. 



Negro governments in the North. _ . . 



Recent improvements in housing among negroes in northern cities. 



Negroes in business in the North. 



The rise of the negro professional class in the North. 



Negroes in skilled trades in the North. 



The industrial handicap of the northern negro. 



Mr. Stone himself has published Some Problems of Southern Economic 

 History, The American Historical Review, July, 1908. 



Prof. E. P. Puckett has completed a study on the free negro in Louisiana, 

 and Dr. R. R. Wright, jr., a study of the free negro in Mar}dand. Both of 

 these works will be published this fall or winter. 



Dr. G. T. Surface has nearly completed a report on the economic condition 

 of certain groups of negro miners. 



Dr. W. L. Fleming has collected a great mass of material on the transition 

 from slave to free labor, publishing a few articles based on his researches. 

 This material will be put into final shape this winter. 



Mr. Wilson has completed and handed in the final report on slave-holding^ 

 among negroes, and Professor Thomas has submitted a final report on the 

 free negroes in Florida. 



Mr. R. R. Wright, jr., has completed a very extensive study, perhaps the 

 most extensive ever made, on the economic condition of the negro in the 

 Northern, Eastern, and Western states. This report has been submitted in 

 part and is now getting into final shape. He has published several papers in 

 connection with his work. 



Dr. T. J. Jones, of Hampton Institute, has in progress a study of the influ- 

 ence of industrial schools on the economic condition of negroes. This work 

 is being done in cooperation with Tuskegee, Hampton, and other institutions. 



Mr. Stone has definitely outlined the final portion of his work and has begun 

 the actual writing of it. 



Fourteen persons are employed in this division. 



INDEX OF STATE DOCUMENTS. 



This work is under the supervision of a committee on bibliography, consist- 

 ing of Profs. Henry B. Gardner and Walter F. Willcox, and Dr. Davis R. 

 Dewey, and the work is being done directly by Miss Adelaide R. Hasse, of the 

 New York Public Library. The main work of compilation has been com- 

 pleted and Miss Hasse is devoting herself to filling in the gaps. The vol- 

 umes for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, and 

 Massachusetts have been completed and published, and additional volumes 

 are appearing as rapidly as they can be handled. 



