DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 7I 



While little has already been published under this division, eight or nine 

 important chapters are so far advanced that they will appear during the 

 coming year. Professor Meyer reports that he believes satisfactory progress 

 has been made in all lines, and that his various co-workers have been faithful 

 and efficient. 



Division 6. — Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 



The work in this Department is in very satisfactory condition. Prof. 

 Emory R. Johnson, in charge, reports that he has secured "The history of 

 the organization of ocean commerce" from Dr. J. Russell Smith, whose mono- 

 graph is completed, but not published. 



Dr. Walter Sheldon Tower has completed a "History of the American 

 whale fishery," and his monograph on that subject was published by the 

 University of Pennsylvania in June, 1907. 



The "History of American foreign trade" is being vigorously pushed by 

 Dr. S. Huebner and his coadjutor, Mr. G. G. Huebner, seven chapters having 

 been turned in. The entire subject will doubtless be finished within the next 

 two or three months. 



A monograph on the "Tariff provisions for the promotion of foreign trade 

 of the United States," by Mr. G. G. Huebner, has been published by the 

 American Academy of Political and Social Science. 



Mr. A. A. Giesecke, instructor in Cornell University, has treated the 

 colonial period of American legislation, and the history to 1789 is now 

 finished. 



Division 7. — Money and Banking. 



Dr. Davis R. Dewey, in charge of this division, reports that he has 

 advanced his collection of material somewhat since last year. No works 

 resulting from his studies have as yet been printed, although three are com- 

 pleted and ready for the press, as follows : 



History of banking in Pennsylvania, by J. H. Holdsworth, of the Drexel Institute of 



Art, Science, and Industry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 The relation of the depreciation of greenbacks to prices and wages, by W. C. Mitchell, 



of the University of California. 

 The history of banking in Florida, by Prof. D. Y. Thomas, of the University of Florida, 



Gainesville, Florida. 



Dr. Dewey's work has been embarrassed by the death of Prof. W. H. Isley, 

 of Fairmount College, who had collected valuable notes on the history of 

 banking in Kansas and was planning to make the final draft of his report. 

 His notes in scattered form will be of some use in this division. 



In addition to the above. Dr. Dewey has under way eighteen other investi- 

 gations, and he hopes that at least half of them will be finished during the 

 coming year, and that he will be able to give an increasing amount of time 

 to the work during the coming year with the idea of beginning the final draft. 



