The Second Session was held on Monday evening, in Room A of Emerson Hall. Vice-President Emerson called the meeting to order at 8.15 P.M. About 50 persons were in attendance. The reading of papers was at once begun:

Prof. J. Whatmough, of Harvard University: Recent Criticisms of the Principle of the Phonetic Law.

Discussion by Messrs. Sehrt, Sturtevant, Bolling, Miss Hahn, Messrs. Lotspeich, Kurath, Emerson.

Prof. G. L. Malécot, of Washington and Jefferson College; Gesture and Language.

Prof. Louise Pound, of the University of Nebraska: The Etymology of an English Expletive (darn).

Discussion by Messrs. Knott and Kent.

Prof. C. C. Fries, of the University of Michigan: The Expression of the Future: a Suggestion.

Prof. G. M. Bolling, of Ohio State University: Kandaules.

Discussion by Messrs. Whatmough, Sturtevant, Remy.

Prof. R. G. Kent, of the University of Pennsylvania: Latin quattuor and its phonetic peculiarities.

Discussion by Messrs. Bloomfield, Bolling, Remy, Lotspeich.

Adjournment was taken at 10.10 P.M.

The Third Session was held on the morning of Tuesday, December 28, in Room A, Emerson Hall. Vice-President Emerson called the meeting to order at 9.35 A.M. About 60 persons were in attendance. The reading of papers was at once begun:

Prof. C. M. Lotspeich, of the University of Cincinnati: A Single Principle for English and Primitive Germanic Sound Changes.

Discussion by Messrs. Sturtevant, Kellogg, Emerson.

Prof. C. D. Buck, of the University of Chicago: The New Darius Inscription.

Discussion by Mr. Kent.

Prof. Barend Faddegon, of Harvard University: Interconsonantal Association.

Discussion by Messrs. Emerson, Kent, Buck.

Prof. A. R. Nykl, of Marquette University: Why Esperanto?

Discussion by Misses Claflin, Hahn, Eaton, Messrs. Bolling, Whatmough, Remy.

Dr. Edith F. Claflin, of Rosemary Hall, Greenwich: The Hypothesis of the Italo-Celtic Impersonal Passive in -r.

The following papers were read by title:

Prof. N. N. Martinovitch, of Columbia University: The Turkish chalabi.

Mr. Waldemar Jochelson, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York: The Instrumental and the Comitative in the Aleut Language. Prof. U. T. Holmes, of the University of North Carolina: The Latin Velar Stops in Old French.

A brief business session followed.

Prof. Saleski, for the Committee on Nominations, presented the following report, which was adopted in the usual manner, and the nominees were declared elected:

President, Prof. Carl D. Buck, of the University of Chicago.

Vice-President, Prof. Edgar H. Sturtevant, of Yale University.

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

Executive Committee, the preceding, and

Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, of the Ohio State University.

Prof. Edward Prokosch, of Bryn Mawr College.

Prof. Edward Sapir, of the University of Chicago.

Committee on Publications:

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

To serve through 1929: Prof. Samuel Moore, of the University of Michigan.

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

Resolved, that the Linguistic Society of America express its hearty thanks to the President and Fellows of Harvard University, for the perfect hospitality which they have shown us; to the Local Committee, especially the Chairman, Prof. C.N. Jackson, and our Society's special representative, Prof. Taylor Starck; to the American Philological Association, the Modern Language Association of America, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the College Art Association of America, for their companionship, for their hospitality in inviting us to join with them at their banquets, and for their kind cooperation at every point, and especially to the American Philological Association for inviting us to a joint session. Adjournment was taken at 11.55 A.M.

The members of the Society were guests of Harvard University at luncheon at the Harvard Union on Tuesday, December 28, and Wednesday, December 29.

The Fourth Session was held on Wednesday afternoon, December 29, in Room F, Emerson Hall, jointly with the American Philological Association. Prof. E. H. Sturtevant, as presiding officer, called the meeting to order at 4.05 P.M. About 45 persons were in attendance. The session was a Round Table on The Relation of Linguistic Studies to Classical Studies. The presiding officer opened the discussion, and was followed by the invited speakers: Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, Prof. G. M. Bolling, Prof. R. G. Kent. After this, there was general discussion, participated in by Dr. H. W. Magoun, Prof. J. Whatmough, Miss E. F. Claflin. Adjournment was taken at 5.45 P.M.

The Fifth Session was held on the evening of Wednesday, in the Sanders Theatre of Memorial Hall, jointly with all the other visiting associations. Prof. H. R. Fairclough, President of the American Philological Association, called the meeting to order at 8.10 P.M. The Linguistic Society was represented on the platform by Vice-President Emerson and by its appointed speaker, Prof. Leonard Bloomfield. About 500 persons were in attendance. The Address of Welcome to the visiting societies was given by President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard University. Then followed responses by representatives of the societies: Prof. Ashley Horace Thorndike, of Columbia University, for the Modern Language Association; Prof. Edward Capps, of Princeton University, for the Archaeological Institute of America; Prof. Leonard Bloomfield, of the Ohio State University, for the Linguistic

Society of America; Prof. C. R. Morey, of Princeton University, for the College Art Association; and Dean Clifford Herschel Moore, of Harvard University, for the American Philological Association. Adjournment was taken at 9.30 P.M., and was followed by a reception in an adjacent hall.

The members of the Society were guests of Harvard University at luncheon at the Harvard Union on Thursday, December 30.

The Sixth Session was held on Thursday afternoon, December 30, in Room D, Emerson Hall, jointly with the American Philological Association. Prof. H. R. Fairclough, President of the Philological Association, called the meeting to order at 2.40 P.M.; during the later part of the session he was succeeded in the chair by Prof. C. D. Buck, President-Elect of the Linguistic Society. About 75 persons were in attendance. The reading of papers was at once begun:

Prof. J. Whatmough, of Harvard University: The Phonology of the Messapic Dialect.

Discussion by Mr. Buck.

Prof. E. H. Sturtevant, of Yale University: Indic Speech and Religion in Western Asia.

Discussion by Mr. Buck.

Prof. R. G. Kent, of the University of Pennsylvania: Word-Contamination in the Italic Dialects.

Discussion by Mr. Whatmough.

Prof. E. Adelaide Hahn, of Hunter College: The ab urbe condita Type of Expression in Greek and English.

Discussion by Messrs. Clyde Murley, Kent, Prindle, L. A. Post, Whatmough, C. W. E. Miller, Bolling, Riess.

Prof. S. E. Bassett, of the University of Vermont: On Iliad A 52: a discussion of the so-called emphatic position of the runover word in the Homeric hexameter.

Discussion by Messrs. F. C. Babbitt, Bolling, H. W. Magoun.

Dr. B. M. Allen, of the Cheshire School: The Accusative and the Ablative of Degree of Difference.

Discussion by Mr. Sturtevant.

Dr. Edith F. Claflin, of Rosemary School, Greenwich, Conn.: The Nature of the Latin Passive in the Light of Recent Discoveries.

Discussion by Messrs. Buck and Sturtevant.

The following papers were presented by title:

Dr. H. W. Magoun, of Belmont, Mass.: The Riddle of Classical Prosody. Prof. W. A. Merrill, of the University of California: Nil and Nihil in Lucretius.

Prof. R. V. D. Magoffin, of New York University: The Vocative in Livy.

Prof. J. F. Mountford, of Cornell University: A Paris MS (Suppl. Gr. 449) and the Lacuna in Ptolemy, Harmonics, 2.14.

Prof. Clyde Murley, of Northwestern University: Some Verse Effects of Initial Words.

Prof. C. R. Harding, of Davidson College: Subsequent Action Expressed by the Aorist Participle.

Adjournment was taken at 4.55 P.M.

Members of the Linguistic Society were welcomed at the dinners of the various Associations on the evening of Thursday, December 30. Prof. O. F. Emerson, Vice-President of the Society, represented the Linguistic Society at the banquet of the Modern Language Association, at the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Prof. R. G. Kent, Secretary of the Society, represented it at the banquet of the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the College Art Association, at the new University Club.

(Signed) ROLAND G. KENT, Secretary.