This report, published in 1908, is made up of two articles. The first explores the problem of the decreasing population in rural areas, resulting in lowered social and health conditions and making these areas unhospitable for raising children. The second is a guide for organizing and carrying out a Field Day or Play Festival in country districts.

MYRON T. SCUDDER, principal, State Normal School, New Paltz, N.Y.

This report is the result of a survey of the health and housing conditions in Ithaca, NY in February 1914.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Newburgh survey project was undertaken by the Foundation's Department of Surveys and Exhibits in 1913 in order to learn significant facts of living conditions in the community, to make recommendations where corrective action is needed, and to acquaint the general citizenship with both facts and needs.

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Zeiger, Zenas L. Potter, Franz Schneider, Amy Woods, Frederick W. Jenkins, Margaret F. Byington, Edward F. Brown, D. O. Decker.

A 1912 report on the results of a schools survey taken to obtain data on evening "social center" activities hosted.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series, written in 1918.  The book is primarily a home economics study of how low-income households of the time managed money.

FLORENCE NESBITT was director of the food conservation section of the Cleveland Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.

Reports published by the foundation's Department of Recreation in 1913.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This handbook, published in 1922, serves as an introduction to zoning, covering the spread of the movement, the reasons for zoning, the experiences of various zoned cities, and the legal pitfalls, with a discussion of the theory of community land planning legislation.

EDWARD M. BASSETT was chairman of the Zoning Committee of New York.

This 1935 pamphlet from the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation details the investigation of American city school systems in 1913 to gather facts concerning the boys in these schools from kindergarten to the last year in high school and the fathers of these boys, to secure a more definite fact basis in the field of industrial education.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1920, this report presents an index for measuring the effectiveness of state school systems by the amount of education received by the children and the expenditures made to purchase this education. The purpose of the index is to make it possible for state school systems to measure their progress from year to year and to compare their attainments with those of their neighbors.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This volume was published as part of The Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.