582 WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY. 



added Comparative Philology. In 1856 appeared the text of the first 

 important work in the production of which Whitney bore a part, the 

 edltio princeps of the Atharva-Veda. It bears upon the title-page his 

 name, and tliat of his old instructor, Roth ; but the subsequent labors 

 bestowed upon this one of the Vedas were by him alone. It was in 

 18J:9 that an article of Whitney's had appeared in the August number 

 of the " Bibliotheca Sacra." It was an abridged translation of the 

 once popular treatise Das Alte Lidien of the orientalist Van Bohlen. 

 This was the beginning of a long career of literary activity, the records 

 of which can be found in the journals of Europe and America, in the 

 proceedings of learned societies, and in independent publications. The 

 list of his published productions numbers about one hundred and fifty 

 titles. They range all the way from comparatively brief pieces, which 

 appeared in weekly periodicals, to works involving immense time and 

 labor in their preparation, sucli as the text and translation of and 

 notes on the " Taittiriya-Pratifakhya," and its commentary, the '' Trib- 

 hashyaratna," for which the Bopp prize was awarded him by the Ber- 

 lin Academy of Sciences. A large part of what he produced in his 

 special field of investigation made its appearance in the successive vol- 

 umes of the " Journals and Proceedings of the American Oriental 

 Society," though it was by no means confined to that publication. In 

 particular should be mentioned his Sanscrit Grammar, and his contri- 

 butions to the great seven-volumed Sanscrit-German Lexicon, pub- 

 lished by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. Of this 

 latter work he was one of the four collaborators who faithfully assisted 

 the editors, Bohtlingk and Roth, during the twenty-tliree years taken 

 up with its progress through the press. Besides these purely technical 

 productions he contributed to a number of periodicals essays on various 

 Oriental and linguistic topics of more or less general interest. These 

 were collected by him and published in two volumes in 1873 and 

 1874; but the work of his that up to that time appealed most to the 

 public of educated men was his treatise on the principles of linguistic 

 'science, which came out in 1867 under the title of '•Lano-ua'T-e and 

 the Study of Language." An outline of this same science, cover- 

 ing essentially the same ground as the preceding work, was published 

 in 1875 in the International Scientific Series, under the title of '' The 

 Life and Growth of Language." It was then the only popular and at 

 the same time scientific exposition of the subject which can be found 

 in any tongue, and such it has remained to the present day. 



AYliitnoy took up his residence in New Haven in 1854, and with 

 the exception of occasional visits abroad, New Haven remained his 



