This pamphlet and its accompanying charts are intended to provide a brief description of governmental organizations of the city of New York. Some mention also is made of county, state, and the federal agencies as well as of public authorities which operate within the boundaries of the city.

ROBERT H. CONNERY was professor emeritus of public law and government at Columbia University and deputy city administrator of New York.

The Russell Sage Foundation early in 1908 carried out a study on insurance in Europe. This volume presents the results of the study conducted by Frankel and Dawson, covering about six months, it gives full detail on the various kinds of European insurance, their methods of operation, their finances and their relations with governments.

LEE K. FRANKEL was vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

MILES M. DAWSON was fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Actuarial Society of America.

A investigation into the scope of industrial co-operation in New England, begun in 1907. Industrial co-operation in this study was "limited to the associations for the production and distribution of the immediate necessities of life."

JAMES FORD was instructor in social ethics at Harvard University.

A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.

CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.

Published in 1909, this report is a result of a New York State Conference of Charities and Correction–appointed study on the essentials and cost of a normal standard of living in the cities and towns of the state, followed by a detailed analysis of the compiled data of workingmen's budgets.

ROBERT COIT CHAPIN was Horace White Professor of economics and finance in Beloit College, Wisconsin.

For three months beginning August 1, 1912, Mr. Carstens was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to study the actual working of public pensions to widows with children in certain western communities.

C.C. CARSTENS was secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

A report sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Consumers' League of Maryland in 1909, this book studies female workers in mercantile stores in Baltimore. While this report deals only with one set of industrial conditions in a single city, it is suggestive of other cities in the country.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.

YSSABELLA WATERS, Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, New York City

A report on the findings of a study of the loan businesses in New York City from 1907-1908, part of a larger set of studies of fiscal agencies exploiting the necessities of the poor. The study was commissioned by the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE W. WASSAM, Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy