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the more important papers either written or edited by him, and pub- 

 lished in the "Journal," may be named Rev. Ebenezer Burgess's trans- 

 lation of the " Surya-Siddhanta " (a Hindoo treatise on astronomy) 1860, 

 with notes and an appendix; text, with notes, of the " Atharva-Veda 

 Praticakhya" (1862) ; the text of the " Taittiriya Praticakhya" (1871), 

 with English version, notes, and native commentary, the last two being 

 grammatical treatises the edition of the " Taittiriya " won for Pro- 

 fessor Whitney from the Berlin Academy the Bopp prize reviews of 

 Lipsius's phonetic alphabet and of the opinions of Biot, Weber, and 

 Miiller on the lunar zodiac of India, Arabia, and China. He was a con- 

 tributor to the great Sanskrit Dictionary of Bohtlingk and Roth (St. 

 Petersburg, 1853-'67, seven volumes). In 1869 he aided in founding 

 the American Philological Association, and was its first President. His 

 work, "Language and the Study of Language" (2 vols., 1867, repub- 

 lished in 1874), was made up of a series of lectures, delivered first at 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and repeated at the Lowell 

 Institute, Boston ; it was translated into German, and edited, with addi- 

 tions, by J. Jolly, under the title of "Die Sprachwissenschaft " (Munich, 

 1874). His principal contributions to the "Journal of the American 

 Oriental Society," "The North American Review," "The New-England- 

 er," and other periodicals, were collected and published in two volumes, 

 entitled "Oriental and Linguistic Studies" (1873-'74). To the "Inter- 

 national Scientific Series" he contributed a volume in 1875, entitled 

 "The Life and Growth of Language," which was very favorably re- 

 ceived both at home and abroad, having been translated into French, 

 German, and Italian. He has prepared several school manuals for the 

 use of students of the German language, viz., a grammar, a reader, a 

 dictionary, and texts of certain of the German classics. In 1877 ap- 

 peared his work, " Essentials of English Grammar." He has now in 

 press, in Leipsic, a Sanskrit Grammar, in English and German editions. 

 We append a list of papers published at various dates by Professor 

 Whitney, but not contained in either of the two collections named 

 above : " Material and Form in Language " (1872) ; " (pvoei or deoet " 

 " Natural or Conventional " (1874) ; " A Botanico-Philological Problem " 

 (1876). The foregoing were published in the "Journal of the Ameri- 

 can Philological Association." Peile's " Greek and Latin Etymology " 

 (1873-'74 ; " Transactions of the London Philological Society ") ; " On 

 the History of the Vedic Texts " (1854 ; " Journal of the American 

 Oriental Society " ) ; " Contributions from the Atharva-Veda " (1856 ; 

 in the same journal) ; on Lipsius's " Standard Alphabet " (1862 ; the 

 same ) ; " On the Jyotisha Observation of the Place of the Colures and 

 the Date derivable from it" (1864; "Journal of the Royal Astronomi- 

 cal Society," London) ; " Are Languages Institutions ?" (1875 ; "Con- 

 temporary Review") ; " Miiller's Rig-Veda and Commentary" (1876; 

 " New-Englander ") ; " The value of Linguistic Science to Ethnology " 

 (1867 ; in the same). 



