NOTES AND PERSONALIA THE LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE, through its announcements, evoked such a response that the Administrative Committee went ahead with the plans, arranging definitely with the Yale Corporation for the use of the facilities of Yale University. The lectures will begin on July 9, and will last for six weeks. Those who are planning to attend, and have not yet registered their names, are requested to aid the Director by informing him as soon as possible, in care of the Linguistic Institute, Box 1849, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut. THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Linguistic Society will be held in New York City, in the week following Christmas Day, 1928, in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Anthropological Association and the American Psychological Association also are meeting in New York at that time, and it is hoped that the mutual interests of these associations and of the Linguistic Society will be manifested in the attendance at the sessions. The exact days and place of the sessions of the Linguistic Society have not yet been fixed. ACCEPTANCES OF ELECTION have been received from the three foreign scholars who were elected to honorary membership at the Cincinnati meeting. It is to be noted that Professor Sommer is no longer at the University of Bonn, but has accepted a call to the University of Munich. We make the following extracts from the letters of acceptance: Die ernennung zum ehrenmitglied der Linguistic Society of America freut und ehrt mich in besonderem masse und ich spreche Ihnen dafür meinen wärmsten dank aus. Ich sehe darin vor allem die gleichstellung der romanischen sprachwissenschaft mit den anderen, was ja auch in den artikeln Ihrer zeitschrift zum ausdruck kommt, was aber im allgemeinen sehr selten geschieht. So nehme ich denn die ehrung mehr noch für mein fach als für mich persönlich in empfang und betrachte sie als ein zeugniss dafür, dass, was ich aus innerem triebe, den mir von der natur gegebenen neigungen folgend, geleistet habe, der sache zum grossen nutzen gereicht hat. . . . W. Meyer-Lübke. Ihr Brief vom 19. Januar, der mir die Nachricht von meiner Erwählung zum Ehrenmitglied der Linguistic Society of America brachte, war für mich eine grosse Ueberraschung: eine um so grössere, da ich ja eigentlich den mehr linguistischen Arbeiten meiner Jugendjahre immer ferner getreten bin. Aber schliesslich darf ich mir vielleicht doch einbilden, dass auch die Dinge die ich jetzt treibe und wohl auch bis zu meinem nach der Natur der Dinge nicht mehr allzufernem Ende treiben werde, doch auch der Linguistik einigermassen zu Gute kommen: 80 dass ich also die Wahl mit gutem Gewissen, und jedenfalls mit allen guten Vorsätzen für die Zukunft annehmen kann. Darf ich Sie bitten, das der Gesellschaft mitzuteilen, und ihr zugleich meinen ergebensten Dank für die mir zuteilgewordene Auszeichnung zu übermitteln. . . . E. Sievers. Ihr freundliches Schreiben vom 14. I. 1928 ist erst heute in meine Hände gelangt, da ich inzwischen als Professor von Bonn nach München übergesiedelt bin. Der Linguistic Society of America spreche ich meinen herzlichsten Dank aus für die grosse Ehre, die sie mir durch meine Wahl zum Ehrenmitglied hat zuteil. werden lassen, und ich nehme diese Ehre mit Freuden an. .,. F. Sommer Acting under the authority granted by the Society at the Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, the President and the Secretary appointed and issued credentials to the following members of the Society, as delegates to the various European Congresses in which the participation of the Linguistic Society had been invited: To the Conference on Linguistic Bibliography, Paris, March 12: E. B. Babcock, W. A. Oldfather. To the First International Congress of Linguists, The Hague, April 10 to 15: Franz Boas, W. A. Oldfather. To the First International Etruscan Congress, Florence and Bologna, April 27 to May 3: J. W. Hewitt, D. M. Robinson. To the Seventeenth International Congress of Orientalists, Oxford, August 27 to September 3: H. H. Bender, W. N. Brown, A. R. Nykl. W. A. Oldfather. Brief accounts of these meetings will be given in later issues of LANGUAGE. The Twenty-Second International Congress of Americanists will be held in New York City during the week beginning September 17, 1928. The Committee of Organization has the following officers: Franz Boas, Chairman; P. E. Goddard, Secretary. Professor E. C. Armstrong has been unable to serve on the Committee of the Linguistic Society to seek a subvention of $10,000 for certain publications, and Professor Leonard Bloomfield has succeeded to the chairmanship, with Professor Edward Prokosch as his associate on the Committee. Dr. W. Norman Brown, Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed to a fellowship on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for the fifteen months from June 1 1, 1928. He will make a study of the legends and history centering around the Jaina sage Kālaka, as preserved in Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, of the texts themselves, and of the art of the paintings illustrating certain manuscripts of those texts. His studies will be pursued mostly in India, but also for a short time in Europe. a Professor Carl D. Buck has been added to the Honorary Committee of the First International Congress of Linguists, at the Hague. Professor Aurelio M. Espinosa, of the Leland Stanford Jr. University, has been elected to the presidency of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. Miss Marie W. Smith, graduate student in Indo-European Philology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Instructor in Latin at Temple University, Philadelphia, from September of this year. Dr. Ralph Marcus, Instructor in Semitic Languages and Lecturer on Hellenistic Judaism in the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, was also Lecturer in Semitic Languages at Columbia University during the spring semester of 1928. Dr. Edward Sapir, until recently Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, has been promoted to be Professor of Anthropology and General Linguistics. The Committee on Publications has accepted, as the second number of the LANGUAGE DISSERTATIONS, the dissertation of Edward Yoder, Professor of Classics at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, on 'The Position of Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives in the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius', which he is offering for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Several other numbers of this series are under consideration, and announcement of their acceptance is expected shortly. Subsequent to the last published list of new members, and up to March 25, the following new members have been received into the Linguistic Society: Prof. F. C. Edwards, Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. (Germanic and Romance Langs.) Mr. Leopold L. Meyer, Foley Bros. Dry Goods Co., Houston, Texas. (President of the National Retail Credit Assn.) Miss Mary Saleski, Stephanstr. 20 II, Leipzig, Germany. Prof. Frederick Tupper, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. (English) Stuart N. Wolfenden, Esq., 620 Alpine Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. (Tibeto-Burman Langs.) BOOKS RECEIVED Under this heading will be acknowledged such works as seem to bear on 'the advancement of the scientific study of language'. The publicity thus given is regarded as a full return for the presentation of the work. Under no circumstances is it possible to comply with the requests being made by certain publishers for the return of books not reviewed quickly. Reviews will be published as circumstances permit. Copies of them will be sent to the publishers of the works reviewed; and it is hoped that they will then send a second copy to replace the one which will have become the property of the reviewer. For further bibliographic information consult the annual list of Exchanges. Acta Philologica Scandinavica 2. 289-379 (1927). De afwezigheid der datief-conceptie in het Blackfoot. By C. C. UHLENBECK. (Symbolae Grammaticae in honorem Ioannis Rozwadowski 71-82). Algonkisch-klinkende Woorden in het Wiyot. Pp. 26. By C. C. UHLENBECK. Amsterdam: 1927 (Med. d. K. Akad., Afd. Lett. 63. A. 9). AAKAIOT MEAH. The Fragments of the Lyrical Poems of Alcaeus. Pp. xcvii + 75. By EDGAR LOBEL. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. American Speech 3. 171-260 (1928). Archiv für Orientforschung 4. 55–132. Edited by ERNST F. WEIDNER. Berlin: 1927. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 153. 1–159 (1928). Die Bibel als Ariadnefaden im Labyrinthe der Sprachen. Pp. xvii + 136. By ZEKHARIA SCHAPIRA. Erez-Jisrael (Palestine): 1927. Bolletino delle Publicazioni Italiane Nos. 314-7 (1927). A Byzantine Paraphrase of Onasander. Pp. 40. By CLARENCE G. LOWE. Washington University Studies: New Series, Language and Literature, No. 1. Saint Louis: Washington University, 1927. Ad Ciceronis de Finibus L. I. 7,23 et III. 12, 40. Pp. 9. By GEYZA NÉMETHY. Budapest: Academia Litterarum Hungarica, 1927. La Cultura; rivista mensile di Filosofia, Lettere, Arte 7. 49–192 (1927–8). |