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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY* 



Carroll D. Wright, Director. 



During the past year this Department has employed something over 185 

 different individuals in collecting material to form the basis of an economic 

 history of the United States. Considering the inherent difficulties of collect- 

 ing such material, the v^ork has progressed with fair satisfaction. It does 

 not seem necessary to repeat an account of the works printed prior to the 

 beginning of the present year. 



Division i. — Population and Immigration. 



Dr. Walter F. Willcox, in charge, has had five persons working with him 

 on various subjects connected with immigration. Mr. E. A. Goldenweiser 

 has completed a work on Russian immigration, which will soon be put into 

 type. The work of Mrs. Mary Robert Coolidge on Chinese immigration is 

 practically completed and ready for publication. Near the end of the present 

 calendar year Mrs. Louise S. Houghton, who has lived in Syria and under- 

 stands the Syrian language, will have a report ready on Syrian immigration. 

 Prof. A. B. Faust has completed a careful and exhaustive history of the 

 German element in the United States. 



Dr. Willcox expects to avail himself of the services of Miss E. G. Balch, 

 assistant professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College, on the 

 subject of immigration from Austria-Hungary. The articles published by 

 the above-named persons during the year and growing out of their work in 

 the Department of Economics and Sociology are listed in the bibliography 

 in this volume, pp. 46-54. 



Division 2. — Agriculture and Forestry. 



President Kenyon L. Butterfield, in charge of this work, is conducting some 

 very extensive investigations, and while he and his assistants have much 

 material on the various questions under consideration in his division — some 

 of it nearing completion and almost ready for publication — but little has been 

 printed during the year now closing. 



Dr. George F. Wells, who has undertaken, under President Butterfield, the 

 study of the rural church in relation to agricultural development and pros- 

 perity, has published, in addition to papers previously reported, the four 

 papers listed in the bibliography in this volume (pp. 46-54). 



*Address, Clark College, Worcester, Massachusetts. Grant No. 400. $30,000 for 

 investigations relative to an economic history of the United States. (For previous 

 reports see Year Book No. 3, pp. 55-64; Year Book No. 4, PP- 160-169, and Year Book 

 No. 5, pp. 158-163.) 



