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Saskatchewan to Madison in order to finish it under the immediate 

 supervision of Professor Taylor. Progress on the other sections of the 

 history of agriculture has been slow. 



The treatment of the subject of population has been carefully blocked 

 out by Professor Willcox, and he has made substantial progress, but 

 has been delayed during the year by a number of unforeseen circum- 

 stances, one of which is his election to the presidency of the American 

 Economic Association. After the annual meeting of that society in 

 December he hopes to have more time for the work of this department. 



For the Division of State and Federal Finance, Professor Gardner 

 reports that he has received a monograph by Professor E. T. Miller, 

 of the University of Texas, on the financial history of Texas, and he 

 has also received some chapters on the financial history of Virginia 

 from Mr. Edgar Sydenstricker. No other monographs have been 

 turned in or published. Professor Gardner has, however, during the 

 year, employed as an assistant Mr. Henry R. Bowser, who has been 

 engaged in arranging and classifying the notes and references to 

 material which Professor Gardner has collected and of which he has 

 many thousand. Mr. Bowser has also been studying the histor}'^ of 

 State finance on the basis of the studies already made. As there 

 will be a great deal of original work which will have to be done in 

 addition to the monographs in hand, Professor Gardner has during the 

 summer employed Mr. Bowser and some students to work on State 

 documents, of which the State Library at Providence has a large 

 collection. Professor Gardner has given practically all of his own time 

 during the summer to the work of the Department. 



In the divisions of Money and Banking and of The Negro very little 

 has been done during the past year on account of reasons per- 

 sonal to the heads of these divisions, as explained in earher reports, 

 while the whole treatment of the subject of industrial organization 

 has been awaiting the completion of certain other divisions in order 

 to avoid duplication. 



In view of the fact that certain important sections of the '^ Contri- 

 butions to American Economic History" are approaching completion, 

 while others are well advanced, it again becomes desirable to raise the 

 question of the future of the Department. Those divisions which 

 are either finished, or so far advanced that we may reasonably look 

 forward to their completion within a few years, cover the subjects 

 Population, Manufactures, Mining, Transportation, Commerce, Labor, 

 and Social Legislation. It will be noticed that these divisions form 

 a fairly well-rounded group of closely related subjects. They cover 

 what may be called, in general, primary economic subjects. Even 

 if all of the remaining subjects should remain unfinished, the work of 

 these six divisions would justify the title '' Contributions to American 

 Economic History," adopted for the work of the Department as a 



