DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOEOGY, 7I 



Division I.— POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION. 



During the past year Mrs. Louise Seymour Houghton has pubUshed in the 

 "Survey" parts of her study on the "Syrians in the United States" under the 

 following titles and dates : 



I. Sources and Settlement, July i, 191 1. 

 II. Business Activities, August 5, 191 1- 



III. Intellectual and Social Status, September 2, 191 1. 



IV. The Syrian as an American Citizen, October 7, 191 1. 



Professor Willcox has been at work with a secretary upon his final report. 

 Regarding the prospects for the completion of this work, he says : 



I should say that this depends largely upon my obtaining a leave of absence 

 for the academic year 1912-13, and spending it in writing the report. I sin- 

 cerely hope and expect that that plan can be carried out, but beyond that I 

 can not go at present. If it is, I should hope to have my report substantially 

 finished by the end of that year. 



Division II.— AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 



President Kenyon L. Butterfield reports that the gentlemen in charge of 

 the different sections of his subject are all making good progress, though in 

 some cases they have been delayed by other calls upon their time. Of those 

 who have made detailed statements. Prof. F. W. Blackmar, of the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, reports that he has completed the parts relating to the "agri- 

 culture of the Indians and the early colonists," as well as that relating to 

 cotton and tobacco, and has made progress with other sections. 



Prof. H. C. Taylor, of the University of Wisconsin, has devoted the past 

 summer to the monograph on "Land tenure in the United States," and hopes 

 to complete it by the end of the present academic year. His work on the 

 "History of agricultural production" has been delayed by the demands of 

 the United States Census upon himself. Dr. Coulter, and Dr. Gray. The 

 latter has, however, made good progress on his study of the plantations prior 

 to the civil war, and his connection with the census has enabled him to gather 

 much information during a three months' trip through the South. 



Division III.— MINING. 



No publications have been made in this division during the past year. 

 Reports by Dr. David T. Day on quicksilver, nickel, cobalt, platinum, etc., 

 have been completed. 



Reports which are still incomplete are those relating to iron ore, copper. 

 the quarrying industry, and mining laws. Mr. E. W. Parker reports as 

 follows regarding these subjects : 



The iron-ore industry: Prof. C. K. Leith, who has charge of the prepa- 

 ration of the history of iron-ore mining, has found, as the work developed, 

 that it was a much larger field than was at first supposed, and that it was 

 practically impossible to complete it within the original allotment of $1,000 

 or within the time first set for its completion. He and his assistant, Mr. 



