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expression of gratitude for Dr. Dihigo's 

 efforts in behalf of primary education, pre- 

 sented to the Board of Education his por- 

 trait in oils to be hung in the Board rooms. 

 In Public School No. 37 of the city there 

 has been established, in recognition of their 

 honored patron, the Republica Escolar Juan 

 Miguel Dihigo. 



Although known in other lines of useful- 

 ness it is chiefly as a linguist that Dr. 

 Dihigo has gained his reputation. He has 

 long been a student of the Indo-European 

 tongues and of those of the Semitic group, 

 especially Hebrew and Arabic. His lin- 

 guistic works have been recognized by 

 foreign laborers in the same field, by Man- 

 oury, Regnaud, Lebegue, Cejador, Fay, 

 Wheeler, Meyer Lubke, Boisacq, Lenz, 

 Sayce, De Gregorio, Rozenvalle, Meillet. 

 He is frequently consulted upon matters 

 of doubt in relation to language. 



He is a member of the French Associa- 

 tion for the encouragement of the study of 

 Greek, of the Society of Linguists in Paris, 

 of the Geographical Society of Mexico, of 

 the Cuban Academy of History, and in 191 8 



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