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Prof. William Dwight Whitney. Prof. 



William Dwight Whitney, of Yale College, 

 the foremost and greatest American philolo- 

 gist, died June 7th, in the sixty-eighth year 

 of his age. He was born at Northampton, 

 Mass., in 1827 ; was graduated from Wil- 

 liams College in 1 845 ; after spending three 

 years in the Northampton Bank, he went to 

 Lake Superior in 1849 as an assistant in 

 botany and ornithology in the United States 

 Geological Survey. Having begun the study 

 of Sanskrit, he continued it at Yale College, 

 under Prof. Salisbury, for one year after his 

 return from this work. He then studied in 

 Germany, under Prof. Weber, of Berlin, and 

 Prof. Roth, of Tubingen. Before he was 

 thirty years of age he had edited, with Prof. 

 Roth, the Atharda Veda, and had become 

 Professor of Sanskrit in Yale College. He 

 prepared a series of German text-books 

 which have sustained an excellent reputa- 

 tion, and continued the publication of San- 

 skrit books in rapid succession, crowning the 

 series with a Sanskrit grammar in English 

 and German, and a book on the Roots, Verb 

 Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the San- 

 skrit Language, which appeared in 1879. 

 These works, says the Nation, "are based, 

 not on the dicta of predecessors, but upon 

 actual observation of the facts of the lan- 

 guage, 'which are subjected to masterly 

 classification and vigorously scientific in- 

 duction." He wrote frequent and valuable 

 essays on Hindu astronomy, phonetics, com- 

 parative grammar, and mythology ; Oriental 

 religions and literature, and the origin and 

 nature of languages ; and delivered lectures 

 at the Smithsonian and Lowell Institutions, 

 out of which grew the volume on the Life 

 and Growth of Language of the International 

 Scientific Series and his book on Language 



and the Study of Language, which have been 

 widely translated. Other essays were em- 

 bodied in the book, Oriental and Linguistic 

 Studies. He was an important contributor 

 to the Sanskrit-German Lexicon published by 

 the Imperial Academy of Russia, 1852 '75; 

 was a member and officer of the American 

 Oriental Society for fifty-one years, and its 

 president after 1884; was first president of 

 the American Philological Association and a 

 frequent contributor to its Transactions and 

 Proceedings ; was editor-in-chief of the Cen- 

 tury Dictionary, and was a member of nu- 

 merous learned societies abroad. A bio- 

 graphical sketch of Prof. Whitney was given, 

 with portrait, in The Popular Science Month- 

 ly for May, 1879 (Vol. XV). 



Women and Education in the Sonth. A 



valuable circular published by the United 

 States Bureau of Education is that on South- 

 ern Women in the Recent Educational Move- 

 ment in the South, which has been prepared 

 by the Rev. A. D. Mayo, and embodies a re- 

 view of what he has seen and learned dur- 

 ing twelve years that he has been engaged 

 in the service of education in the South, in 

 which he has come in contact with every 

 variety of school, both races, and all classes. 

 The essay presents three main divisions, re- 

 lating respectively to Southern schools for 

 the education of girls ; the work of Northern 

 and Southern women in the superior schools 

 for colored youth ; and the common school ; 

 in all of which departments the women of 

 the South are becoming every year more 

 broadly and vitally interested. To the prin- 

 cipal paper are added in an appendix sev- 

 eral essays, originally presented as lectures 

 or magazine articles, bearing on the subject 

 of education in the South. 



Cause of the Migration of Birds. Con- 

 cerning the reason of birds migrating, Canon 

 Tristram observed in the British Association 

 that observation has brought to light many 

 facts which seem to increase the difficulties 

 of a satisfactory answer to the question. 

 The autumnal retreat from the breeding 

 quarters might be explained by a want of 

 sufficient sustenance as winter approaches in 

 the higher latitudes, but this will not ac- 

 count for the return migration in spring, 

 since there is no perceptible diminution of 



