of valuable dissertations and by publishing several books among
which are _Slavery in Kentucky_, _The Royal Adventurers into
Africa_, and _A Century of Negro Migration_. In the near future
the Association will publish for Mr. Justice Riddell, of the
Ontario Supreme Court, a monograph on _The Slave in Upper
Canada_. The Director has written an illustrated text-book on
Negro History which will be published within a few months. These
efforts indicate that the Association will soon develop into a
nucleus of workers known throughout the world as publishers of
authoritative and scientific books bearing on Negro life and
history.

It is highly gratifying that it is becoming less difficult to
find funds to support the work of the Association. A number of
persons who made contributions from the very beginning have
recently increased their donations. Among these are Mr. Moorfield
Storey and the Phelps Stokes Fund. From other sources there have
been obtained several substantial contributions such as $100 from
Mr. Frank Trumbull, $100 from Mr. William G. Willcox, $200 from
Mr. Morton D. Hull, $250 from Mr. Jams J. Storrow, and $400 from
Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, the amount which Mr. Julius Rosenwald has
from the beginning annually contributed.

The Director has endeavored so to increase these contributions as
to secure an endowment making the Association a foundation for a
serious scientific study of Negro life and history.
Unfortunately, however, philanthropists have not seemed disposed
to invest large sums in such an enterprise. The reply to such an
appeal is, that while this work is of great value, they have no
assurance that should the present promoters find it necessary to
retire therefrom, that the work would go on in the way it has
been established and maintained. These philanthropists have in
mind the dearth of scholarship in this field. When our colleges
and universities, therefore, will have developed a serious
student body primarily interested in applying science to the
solution of the race problem, these gentlemen will consider this
appeal more sympathetically.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16, 1919.

_The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History,