DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.* 



Henry W. Farnam, Chairman. 



Since the report of a year ago two histories have been published 

 by the Institution for this Department: 



1. "History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States," by Emory R. 



Johnson, T. W. VanMetre, G. G. Heubner, and D. S. Hanchett, vol. 1, xv-f 363 pages 

 and 5 maps; vol. 2, ix+398 pages and 5 maps. 



2. "A History of Manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860," by Victor S. Clark, one 



volume, xii+675 pages, 14 plates and charts. 



"The History of Transportation in the United States before 1860," 

 prepared by Miss Carohne E. MacGill, under the direction of Professor 

 B. H. Meyer, has been accepted for publication and a large part of the 

 volume is in type. The "History of the Labor Movement," by Pro- 

 fessor John R. Commons and a staff of collaborators, has undergone a 

 thorough revision and has been read in manuscript by the writer, but 

 still requires some editorial work before it can be offered for publication. 



In the Division of Population, Professor Willcox has been devoting 

 about a third of his vacation to his volume, and has taken a leave of 

 absence from university duties in order to give the greater part of his 

 time to it during the coming academic year. 



In the Division of Agriculture, Professor Taylor's study of agricul- 

 tural prices from 1840 to 1860 and Professor Hibbard's history of 

 Federal land pohcies have been handed in to President Butterfield, 

 but are not yet quite ready to be offered for publication. 



In the Division of Mining, Mr. Parker has been revising the manu- 

 script which was described in our last report, and has nearly completed 

 the period down to the Civil War. 



In the Division of Social Legislation the writer has secured a study 

 of the mining laws of Pennsylvania by Mr. A. L. Trachtenberg, which, 

 though not prepared with the aid of a grant from the funds of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, forms one of our projected series 

 of monographs. It is to be published by the United States Bureau of 

 Labor Statistics. The writer has also been at work upon different 

 parts of his own study and has taken a leave of absence from academic 

 work for the coming year in order to gain more time for this history. 



In the Division of Federal and State Finance, Professor Gardner 

 reports that on account of lack of funds he is not having any more 

 monographic studies written, but that he has been spending the 

 greater part of the summer working upon his own divisional summary. 



In the Divisions of Money and Banking and The Negro the prepara- 

 tion of monographs has ceased for the present, and on account of other 

 duties the heads of these divisions have been unable to give much 

 time to their work. 



*Address: Yale Universitv, New Haven, Conn. 



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