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SCIENCE. 



[isr. S. Vol. XIX. No. 475. 



in 1903 two candidates earned the master's 

 degree, and one, the doctor's degree, in Wash- 

 ington University, in which one candidate for 

 the former and three for the latter are now 

 enrolled with majors in botany. 



Details are given of the workings of the 

 school of gardening, the organization of the 

 office staff, and the gardening operations for 

 the past year; and the report closes with an 

 account of the special testamentary provisions 

 of the founder of the garden, among them the 

 recent banquet of the trustees, at which sev- 

 eral hundred of the scientific men of the 

 country were guests during the last convoca- 

 tion week. 



TEE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND 



SOCIOLOGY OF THE CARNEGIE 



INSTITUTION.'' 



The Department of Economics and So- 

 ciology of the Carnegie Institution was by the 

 action of the executive committee placed wholly 

 in charge of Carroll D. "Wright, commissioner 

 of labor. The first great work to which this 

 department is to address itself is the prepara- 

 tion of an economic history of the United 

 States, embracing eleven subjects : 



(1) Population and Immigration. — To this 

 branch Commissioner Wright has assigned Pro- 

 fessor Walter Willcox, of Cornell University. 

 Professor Willcox will not treat his subject 

 merely on its statistical side, bvit will deal 

 broadly with such questions as the influence 

 of the movement of population and immigra- 

 tion on the economic development of the coun- 

 try, one of the principal features to be con- 

 sidered being the routes that immigration has 

 taken at variou.s stages. 



(2) Agriculture and Forestry, including 

 public land and irrigation interests. To this 

 work Mr. Wright has assigned President 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield, of the Rhode Island 

 Mechanical and Agricultural College. 



(3) Mining. — This is committed to Edward 

 W. Parker, of the Geological Survey. 



(4) Manufactures. — This subject will be 

 handled by S. N. D. North, director of the 

 United States Census. 



* Prom the New York Evening Post. 



(5) Transportation will be considered by 

 Dr. W. Z. Ripley, of Harvard University. 



(6) Domestic and Foreign Commerce, in- 

 cluding fisheries, is in the hands of Professor 

 Emory R. Johnson, of Pennsylvania Univer- 

 sity. 



(7) Money and Banlcing wilh be considered 

 by Dr. David R. Dewey, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



(8) The Labor Movement has been reserved 

 by Commissioner Wright for himself. 



(9) Industrial Organization is the subject 

 assigned to Professor J. W. Jenks, of Cornell 

 University. 



(10) Social Legislation will be treated by 

 Professor Henry W. Earnam, of Tale Univer- 

 sity. He will include in his study provident 

 institutions, poor laws, and kindred topics. 



(11) Federal and State Finance, including 

 taxation. The authorship of this treatise the 

 department is not yet ready to announce. 



The collaborators will utilize all available 

 material that has been published mostly in 

 fragmentary ways, as well as all material that 

 can be secured from original sources by special 

 research. For this purpose, graduate students 

 and others interested in special lines will be 

 employed. It is impossible to state how long 

 it will take to finish the work, but it will be 

 pushed with all the force compatible with ac- 

 curacy and completeness. The allotment of 

 money for the first year is $30,000. 



As has been said. Commissioner Wright has 

 been put in charge of the entire enterprise, 

 and during the present year he will have the 

 direction of the work of the staff from the 

 office of his department at Washington. After 

 this year, when he will have retired from the 

 Department of Labor, he will direct the work 

 from his new seat of activity in Worcester, 

 Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the confer- 

 ring of the doctorate on Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald 

 was celebrated at Leipzig on December 19. A 

 Festschrift has been prepared by his pupils. 



Professor F. W. Putnam has resigned his 

 position in the American Museum of ISTatural 

 History which he has held for nearly ten 



