DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.* 

 Henry W. Farnam, Chairman. 



Substantial progress has been made in the Contributions to Ameri- 

 can Economic History during the past year. In the case of six of the 

 twelve divisions the final reports are approaching completion and we 

 hope to have four of these ready for the press next spring, the other 

 two within a year. This statement applies to the divisions Popula- 

 tion and Immigration, in charge of Professor Willcox; Mining, in 

 charge of Mr. Parker; Transportation, in charge of Dr. Meyer; Do- 

 mestic and Foreign Commerce, in charge of Professor Johnson ; Labor 

 Movement, in charge of Professor Commons; Social Legislation, 

 in charge of the chairman. The details of revision and verijBcation 

 will inevitably take considerable time, even in the case of those divi- 

 sions which are most advanced, but the general character and scope 

 of these reports is now substantially determined, and the writer is 

 able to speak from personal knowledge of the work done under the 

 charge of Professors Commons and Meyer, in consequence of a visit 

 which he made to Madison in the spring of the year in order to look 

 over their material. 



In the Division of Manufactures comparatively little work has 

 been done for several years owing to the absence of Dr. Clark in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. He has now, however, given up his government 

 position and will devote himself intensively to work for the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington during the winter. In the case of three 

 divisions — Money and Banking, under Professor Dewey; Federal 

 and State Finance, under Professor Gardner; and the Negro in Slav- 

 ery and Freedom, under Mr. Stone— work which was well begun and 

 for which a number of valuable studies have been made has been 

 interrupted either by ill health or misfortune. The Division of 

 Agriculture and Forestry has been delayed by the many demands, 

 some of them of a public nature, made upon the time of President 

 Butterfield, but arrangements have been perfected during the year 

 for the completion of the study of the History of Agricultural Pro- 

 duction from 1840 to 1860, under Professor Taylor, of the University 

 of Wisconsin. 



The progress made by six of the divisions, as explained above, 

 naturally confronts us with the problem of publication. Some 66 

 volumes of monographs have been published under this Department 

 since its organization, but the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 has not incurred any expense in printing them. The Index of State 



*Address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. (For previous reports see 

 Year Books Nos. 3-11.) 



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