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PHILOLOGY. 



Flugel, Ewald, Stanford University, California. Grants Nos. 329 and 460. 

 TJic preparation of a lexicon to the works of Chaucer. (For previous 

 reports see Year Book No. 3, p. 96; Year Book No. 4, p. 242, and Year 

 Book No. 5, pp. 220, 221.) $11,000. 



Dr. Flugel reports that the work of collecting the materials for the Chau- 

 cer Dictionary was completed in September, and the editorial work proper 

 was begun. He expects to finish the first part of the Lexicon (completing 

 the letter A) by the end of January, 1908. The individual portions of the 

 work done during the year were as follows : 



Mr. IMoll finished collecting the vocabulary of "Troylus and Cryseyde" ; 

 Mr. Rossger completed the work of collecting the vocabulary of "Boece," 

 mimeographed with the old French text on each slip; Mr. Wolderich fin- 

 ished the vocabulary of "The Legend of Good Women" ; Messrs. Bernhofif 

 and Hiibschmann finished the "Romance of the Rose," and Mr. Hiibsch- 

 mann finished the "Minor Poems" and the "Doubtful Poems." All these 

 slips were collated and corrected by Dr. Fliigel and assorted into a rough 

 alphabet by Messrs. Hubschmann and Lindau. 



In the libraries of London, Oxford, and Cambridge Dr. Fliigel himself 

 collated all the "Doubtful Poems" and the Ellesmere MS. of the Canterbury 

 Tales, the results being published in Anglia, volume xxx. On the basis of 

 this re-collation he was able to clear up a number of doubtful points in the 

 text, and it is now possible to assign an absolutely correct orthography to 

 the catch-words of the Dictionary. 



Prof. E. Einenkel has steadily continued his work on the prepositions and 

 particles. Messrs. Rand, Wood, and Geer have carried on, under Dr. 

 Fliigel's supervision, the work of alphabetizing the roughly assorted slips, 

 and Mr. Wood has also been engaged on arranging the rhyme-indexes. The 

 copying of words marked in Froissart has been continued by Dr. H. Ram, 

 of San Francisco. 



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 PHYSICS. 



Barnett, S. J., Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 Grant No. 149. For an investigation of the electric displacement and 

 electric intensities produced in insidators by their motion in a magnetic 

 Held. (For previous reports see Year Book No. 3, p. 124; Year Book 

 No. 4, p. 245, and Year Book No. 5, p. 222.) $250. 



To investigate this matter experimentally, the design of apparatus orig- 

 inally proposed to the Institution, and greatly improved later, was abandoned, 

 and the form of experiment described here was substituted. Several important 

 advantages were thus secured, especially the avoidance of all sliding contacts 



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