This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

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

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.

The proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress of the Playground Association of America. The congress was held in New York in 1908, under the presidency of the Hon, George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York City.

ANNA L. VON DER OSTEN was officer of the Playground Association of America.

A volume of the West Side studies, field work completed in the summer of 1912. It is part of a wider survey of the Manhattan neighborhood, proposed by the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy with funds supplied by the Russell Sage Foundation.

OTHO G. CARTWRIGHT was secretary of the Schoolmasters’ Association of New York and Vicinity.

The Doctor and His Patient documents the rapid changes in health at the time of publication in 1963, spurred on by technology and the social organization of medicine, and how these developments influence the relationship between doctor and patient. It also explores the implications of these changes for medical education, serving as a guide for students of medicine and other health professions.

SAMUEL W. BLOOM was associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York College of Medicine Downstate Medical Center.

A volume of the West Side studies, field work conducted in the summer of 1912. A wider study of the Manhattan neighborhood under the Bureau of Social Research of New York School of Philanthropy with funds supplied by the Russell Sage Foundation.

RUTH S. TRUE, New York Survey Associates, Inc.

Published in 1911 and designed to continue a service rendered by the Bibliography of Settlements until 1905, this handbook presents an outline of the material facts about every settlement in the United States at the time, including non-residential neighborhood centers. In addition to previous research and literature, information is presented from first-hand accounts at these houses from leading representatives on the development and program of settlements.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee