^^^ [April 5, 



prejudice, and justly open to ridicule, when it puts on airs, proclaims 

 itself the defender of a great principle, regards inherited modes of spelling 

 as sacred, and frowns upon the fonetist as one who would fain mar the 

 essential beauty and value of the language." 



But your Committee is also of the opinion that a complete or strictly 

 fonetic reform, however valuable it be as an ideal, is as yet impracticable. 

 A limited reform in the right direction, however, Is not only practicable, 

 but it has already found a foothold. Just how far this could safely be 

 attempted in the State documents the Committee is not required to say. 

 But it is certain that the recommendation of the Commission is as safely 

 conservative as any recommendation in the direction of true progress 

 could be, and that its adoption would be a wise and easy step toward 

 uniformity and the simplification of English orthografy. 



Your Committee therefore offers the following : 



Kef^olvcd, Th&t the regulation of the oithografj' of the public documents of this State 

 is of sufficient importance to call for legislative action; and that this Society approves 

 the recommendation of the State Commission that the public printer be instructed, when- 

 ever variant spellings of a word are found in the current dictionaries, to use in the pub- 

 lic documents the simpler form which accords with the amended spelling recommended 

 by the joint action of the American Philological Association and the English Pliilologi- 

 cal Society. 



In view of the fact that the Legislature will probably not take final 

 acticm upon the recommendation of the State Commission at the present 

 session, and as the Commission still desires the assistance of this Society, 

 we would respectfully suggest that your Committee be continued with 

 permission to report whenever it may seem desirable. 



Patterson DuBois, 

 Hknky Phillips, Jr., 

 James MacAlister. 



The resolutions offered by the Committee were adopted. 



The Committee on the Codtx Poinsett presented a report, 

 stating that the pubhcation of the same was desirable, and laid 

 before the Society estimates for the cost of its reproduction. 



The Society ordered that the Codex should be published in 

 its Transactions and further continued the same Committee, 

 with request to prepare appropriate letter press to accompany 

 the plates and to superintend the passage of the paper through 

 the press. 



Mr. Phillips stated that the Physa TIeterostropha, of whicli 

 he had spoken to the Society on April 20, 1888, had reap- 



