The Bulletin on Language Dissertations is in preparation by the Secretary, but has not yet been brought into form ready to print. The series of Language Dissertations has however been started by the Committee on Publications.

During the year, the Executive Committee, acting by correspondence, has fixed the time and place of the present meeting, and made other necessary arrangements; it has also elected to membership the several lists of nominees for membership, published in LANGUAGE as elected in 1927.

The Executive Committee met on Tuesday, December 27, 1927, at 10.00 A.M., at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati, with the attendance also, by invitation, of the Committee on Publications, the Society's members of the Local Committee, and the proposers of the Linguistic Institute. There were present accordingly C. D. Buck, E. H. Sturtevant, E. Sapir, L. Bloomfield, E. Prokosch, G. M. Bolling, S. Moore, C. M. Lotspeich, R. E. Saleski.

The reports of the Secretary, of the Treasurer, and of the Editor were presented informally and their contents considered.

The Executive Committee appointed Prof. Leonard Bloomfield to succeed himself, as delegate of the Society to the American Council of Learned Societies for the term 1929-1932.

The Committee wishes to recommend the following actions:

(1) That in accord with Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution, the following scholars be elected to Honorary Membership:

Dr. Eduard Sievers, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Philology at the University of Leipzig.

Dr. Ferdinand Sommer, Professor of Indo-European Comparative Philology at the University of Bonn.

Dr. Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Bonn.

(2) That the President and the Secretary of the Society be empowered to appoint and sign credentials of members of the Society as its delegates to the First International Congress of Linguists, at the Hague, April 10-15; to the Primo Congresso Internazionale Etrusco at Florence and Bologna, April 27 to May 3, 1928; and to the Seventeenth International Congress of Orientalists at Oxford, August 27 to September 1, 1928.

(3) That the Society reaffirm its stand in regard to proposed restrictions on the importation of foreign books, taken at its meeting of December 27, 1926. (4) That the Society appoint a Committee to request educational foundations for a subvention of Ten Thousand Dollars towards the publication of the following works: (a) Manuscript material collected by the Committee on American Indian Linguistic Research; (b) Livonian Grammar and Dictionary, in course of preparation by O. Loorits.

The Executive Committee will later present a recommendation with regard to the proposed Linguistic Institute.

On motion, properly seconded, the nominees for Honorary Membership received the unanimous vote of those present, and were declared duly elected.

On motion, properly seconded, the remaining recommendations of the Executive Committee and its ad interim actions, as reported, were approved by the Society.

The President thereupon appointed Prof, E. C. Armstrong and Prof. Leonard Bloomfield as the Committee to request educational foundations for a subvention.

Prof. G. M. Bolling, Editor of the Publications of the Society and Chairman of the Committee on Publications, presented the following report, which was on motion adopted:

During the year 1927, the Society has through its Committee on Publications published the third volume of LANGUAGE, amounting to 279 pages, and has in press the first number of the series of LANGUAGE DISSERTATIONS, amounting to 25 pages. Its title is:

The Vedic Declension of the Type vṛki's, by Ruth Norton Albright, Ph.D. of The Johns Hopkins University.

The LANGUAGE MONOGRAPHS Nos. 2 and 3 have appeared during 1927, and have been distributed to the members and subscribers for 1926, for which year they were announced.

Several MONOGRAPHS and DISSERTATIONS are under consideration for appearance in the series.

The Executive Committee proposed the following minute, which, after discussion, was adopted:

The Linguistic Society of America hereby approves the project of a Linguistic Institute, to be held at New Haven in the summer of 1928, along the lines proposed by R. E. Saleski and E. H. Sturtevant, and authorizes the holding of it, under the administration of the following committee: E. H. Sturtevant, who is hereby appointed Director of the Linguistic Institute; R. E. Saleski, who is appointed Assistant Director; and R. G. Kent.

The Society gives to the said Committee of Administration full powers to modify their plans and to cancel them in part or in whole, if the support which they secure for the Institute seems in their judgment insufficient.

The Society empowers the Executive Committee to authorize a continuance of the Linguistic Institute in 1929, if this be recommended by the Committee of Administration, with or without a change in the membership of the Committee of Administration.

Provided always, that the Linguistic Society incur no financial obligations therein.

The Presiding Officer now appointed the following committees: On Nomination of Officers for 1928: W. A. Oldfather, Chairman; C. M. Lotspeich, E. Prokosch.

To Audit the Accounts of the Treasurer: E. Prokosch, Chairman; E. H. Sturtevant.

On Resolutions: G. T. Flom, Chairman; E. Sapir.

The reading of papers was now begun:

Prof. Samuel Moore, of the University of Michigan: The Earliest Morphological Changes in Modern English. Discussion by Messrs. Sapir, Saleski.

Prof. George T. Flom, of the University of Illinois: On Primitive North
Germanic w and spirantic b in the later Old Norse runic inscriptions and
in the earliest literary documents. Discussion by Messrs. Prokosch,
Sapir, Lotspeich.

Prof. Edgar H. Sturtevant, of Yale University: Initial sp and st in
Hittite. Discussion by Messrs. Sapir, Michelson, Bolling.
Prof. Louis Allen, of the University of Toronto: A Note on Two Iro-
quoian Numerals. Discussion by Messrs. Sapir, Michelson.
Prof. George M. Bolling, of the Ohio State University: The Alleged
Equivalence in Meaning of παραιτεῖσθαι and ἀθετεῖν.

Prof. Truman Michelson, of the Smithsonian Institution and George
Washington University: Walleser on the Home of Pali.

Prof. Sarah T. Barrows, of the State University of Iowa: A Frequently Occurring Usage of Pronunciation in Iowa. Discussion by Messrs. Sturtevant, Bloomfield, Prokosch, Flom, Miss Hahn, Messrs. Knott, Clapp, Sapir, Kurath, L. Allen, Hamilton.

Prof. Hermann Collitz, of the Johns Hopkins University: Positive and Negative Phonetic Laws. (Read by title only.)

Miss Maria W. Smith, of Philadelphia: The Instrumental in the Gathas of the Avesta. (Read by title only.)

Mr. Waldemar Jochelson, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York: (a) The Phonology in the Aleut Language; (b) The Noun and Verb Modifications in the Kamchadal Language; (c) The Negative Forms in the Yukaghir Language. (Read by title only.)

Adjournment was taken at 5.20 p.m.

An informal subscription dinner was held at 6.30 p.m., at the Hotel Gibson, with an attendance of 27 persons, of whom 23 were members of the Society.

The Second Session was held on Tuesday evening, in Room 1002 of the Hotel Gibson. President Buck called the meeting to order at 8.25 P.M. About 34 persons were present. The reading of papers was at once begun:

Prof. Carl Darling Buck, of the University of Chicago, President of the Society: A Project for a Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages: a contribution to the history of ideas. Discussion by Messrs. Prokosch, Sapir, Prindle, Tanner, Sturtevant. Prof. Claude M. Lotspeich, of the University of Cincinnati: Sound Symbolism. Discussion by Messrs. Prokosch, Kurath, Sturtevant, Sapir, Fries, Moore, Knott, Miss Hahn.

Prof. Edward Sapir, of the University of Chicago: Fundamental Traits in the Structure of Grebo, a Soudanese Language. Discussion by Messrs. Lotspeich, Sturtevant, Bolling, Hamilton.

Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, of the University of Chicago: The Pathology of Words. Discussion by Messrs. Prokosch, Moore, Bolling, Lotspeich, Sturtevant, Sapir, Potter, Buck, Preveden, B. M. Allen, Luebke.

Adjournment was taken at 11.15 p.m.

The Third Session was held on the morning of Wednesday, December 28, at the University of Cincinnati, in Room 11 of McMicken Hall. President Buck called the meeting to order at 9.35 A.M. About 25 persons were in attendance. The reading was at once begun:

Dr. Francis R. Preveden, of DePaul University and the University of Chicago: The Turkish Loanwords in Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian. Mr. Ephraim Cross, of New York City: The Italic Accent, especially the Latin. Discussion by Messrs. Sturtevant, Buck, Petersen, Sapir, Miss Hahn.

Prof. E. Adelaide Hahn, of Hunter College: On Confusion of Terms for Mind and Terms for Body in Vergil. Discussion by Mr. Sturtevant. Prof. Walter Petersen, of the University of Florida: The Growth of the Greek K-Perfect. Discussion by Messrs. Buck, Bolling, Sapir, Cross. Mr. Bernard M. Allen, of the Roxbury School, Cheshire, Conn.: The Ablative of Respect. Discussion by Messrs. Buck, Sapir.

Prof. Robert J. Kellogg, of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas: VerbStem Formations in Hittite and in Indo-European. (Read by title only.)

A brief business session followed.

Prof. Lotspeich, for the Committee on Nominations, presented the following report, which, in the absence of nominations from the floor, was adopted in the usual manner, and the nominees were declared elected:

President, Prof. Franz Boas, of Columbia University.

Vice-President, Prof. G. O. Curme, of Northwestern University.

Secretary and Treasurer, Prof. Roland G. Kent, of the University of Pennsylvania. Executive Committee, the preceding, and

Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, of the University of Chicago.

Prof. Franklin Edgerton, of Yale University.

Prof. Edward Prokosch, of Bryn Mawr College.

Committee on Publications:

Chairman and Editor: Prof. George Melville Bolling, of the Ohio State University.

To serve through 1930: Prof. Hans Kurath, of the Ohio State University.

Prof. Sturtevant, for the Auditors, reported that they had examined the accounts of the Treasurer and found them correct; whereupon on motion the report of the Treasurer was approved.

Prof. Flom, for the Committee on Resolutions, presented the following report, which was on motion adopted:

The Linguistic Society of America wishes to express its thanks for the welcome accorded it, and its hearty appreciation of the splendid hospitality that has been shown it, during this its Fourth Annual Meeting, by the University of Cincinnati; the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce; the management of the Hotel Gibson; the Local Committee on Arrangements, and its special representatives, Professor W. T. Semple and Professor C. M. Lotspeich; and by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft.

Adjournment was taken at 11.50 A.M.

The members of the Society were guests of the University of Cincinnati in Women's Hall, at luncheon on Wednesday, December 28.

The Fourth Session was held on Wednesday afternoon, December 28, in the Ball Room of the Hotel Gibson, jointly with the American Philological Association. Prof. F. C. Babbitt, President of the American Philological Association, called the meeting to order at 2.30 P.M. About 150 persons were in attendance. The following papers were presented: Prof. Harry J. Leon, of the University of Texas: The Language of the Inscriptions from the Jewish Catacombs of Rome.