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(2) Alphabetizing of the revised slips . — 'The slips revised during the past 

 year were assorted into a ' ' rough ' ' alphabet by Mr. J. Rubin, Mr. Wolderich, 

 and Mr. Rossger. They have finished the alphabet for the Canterbury 

 Tales, with the exception of the " Wife of Bath." 



(3) Copyifig for the collateral apparatzis. — Mr. Tanneberger has been work- 

 ing on copying the words underlined in Froissart ; he has besides assorted the 

 words collected from the " Roman de la Rose" into an "exact alphabet," 

 preparing what is practically a concordance to this work, which will prove 

 most valuable for the Chaucer Lexicon. 



(4) Copyi72g of Old Frc7ich texts {tuipublished) of authors knoivn to Chaucer. — 

 Mr. Frangois Bruel, of Paris, has finished his copy of " Boece," and is to 

 continue with his copying from Machault. Dr. Padelford has copied one 

 manuscript of the Old French ' ' Melibee ' ' at London. Dr. Fliigel has 

 collated this copy with the manuscript and added collations from twelve 

 other manuscripts at London and Paris. The whole is to be edited in a 

 parallel text edition with Chaucer's translation. 



(5) Work on certain articles for the Dictionary in its final shape. — Professor 

 Einenkel has continued his work on the prepositions, the "impersonalia," 

 and the auxiliary verbs. 



(6) The work of verification of the accuracy of printed texts has been carried 

 on at London by Miss H. Palmer, who has carefully collated one manuscript 

 of ' ' Troilus ' ' and one manuscript of the Canterbury Tales (the Lansdowne 

 manuscript). Mr. Arthur Rogers, of the Cambridge University Library, 

 has been engaged on a collation of the Cambridge Boethius manuscripts ; 

 Dr. Fliigel has collated the Astrolabe manuscripts at Oxford and verified a 

 large number of doubtful passages from manuscripts at Oxford, London, 

 Cambridge, and Paris. 



PHONETICS. 



Scfiptute, E, W., New York, N. Y. Grant No. 358. Completion of a work 

 on researches in experimental phonetics. (For previous reports see Year 

 Book No. 2, p. XL; Year Book No. 3, p. 114, and Year Book No. 

 4, PP- 243, 244.) $1,800. 



The first volume of results, for which the manuscript was completed in 

 1905, has been published as a quarto volume of 202 pages with 13 plates 

 and 138 figures (Publication No. 44 of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington). The manuscript for another volume is well advanced. The 

 topics treated in the second volume will include records known as the Yale, 

 Mitchell, Depew, Graham, and Yvetot records. 



