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Rh years 1801 to 1814. Albert Gallatin, as Secretary of the Treasury, made a valuable report on the manufacturing products of the United States. This report was made in 1813 and contained the well-known estimates of Mr. Tench Coxe. The volume published by the Treasury Department for the years 1829 to 1836 contains Taney's report of 1833 on the removal of public deposits, and that of 1834 on deposit banks, and also Woodbury's report of 1834 on public money, while the volume containing the reports for the years 1846 to 1848 contains Walker's report on the warehousing system. In 1849 Hon. W. M. Meredith, then Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report on the finances of the country, embodied reports on the reduction in prices of articles of American manufacture, covering the fifteen years from 1835 to 1849, inclusive. This report also contains valuable data on wages, cost of producing iron, and much important information relative to manufactures abroad. In 1886 Hon. Daniel Manning, who was then Secretary of the Treasury, made an exceedingly valuable report on the revision of the tariff, containing a vast deal of information on wages, prices, and the cost of production, and in 1892 an important report was issued on the causes which incite immigration to the United States. Some of the earlier reports are now difficult to obtain, but it is well that the student should know that they were published and in what volumes they may be found.

The Marine Hospital Service makes reports on sanitary conditions, while the efforts of the government in life-saving are shown in the reports of the Life-Saving Service.

One would hardly look for contributions to social science under the work of this department. Yet, although its work relates more to historical than to social questions, many of its publications are among the most important general contributions in the latter field; but whatever it has done in the way of historical publications is in the interest of social science, as history constitutes one of its most important branches. In history it has