CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. ARTICLE I.-NAME AND OBJECT. 1. This Society shall be known as "The American Philological Associa tion." 2. Its object shall be the advancement and diffusion of philological knowledge. ARTICLE II. - OFFICERS. 1. The officers shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Curator, and a Treasurer. 2. There shall be an Executive Committee of ten, composed of the above officers and five other members of the Association. 3. All the above officers shall be elected at the last session of each annual meeting. ARTICLE III.— MEETINGS. 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Association in the city of New York, or at such other place as at a preceding annual meeting shall be determined upon. 2. At the annual meeting, the Executive Committee shall present an annual report of the progress of the Association. 3. The general arrangements of the proceedings of the annual meeting shall be directed by the Executive Committee. 4. Special meetings may be held at the call of the Executive Committee, when and where they may decide. ARTICLE IV. - MEMBERS. 1. Any lover of philological studies may become a member of the Association by a vote of the Executive Committee and the payment of five dollars as initiation fee, which initiation fee shall be considered the first regular annual fee. 2. There shall be an annual fee of three dollars from each member, failure in payment of which for two years shall ipso facto cause the membership to cease. 3. Any person may become a life member of the Association by the payment of fifty dollars to its treasury, and by vote of the Executive Committee. ARTICLE V.-SUNDRIES. 1. All papers intended to be read before the Association must be submitted to the Executive Committee before reading, and their decision regarding such papers shall be final. 2. Publications of the Association, of whatever kind, shall be made only under the authorization of the Executive Committee. ARTICLE VI. - AMENDMENTS. Amendments to this Constitution may be made by a vote of two-thirds of those present at any regular meeting subsequent to that in which they have been proposed. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE annually published "Proceedings" of the American Fhilo. logical Association contain an account of the doings at the annual meeting, brief abstracts of the papers read, reports upon the progress of the Association, and lists of its officers and members. The annually published "Transactions" give the full text of such articles as the Executive Committee decides to publish. The Proceedings are bound with them as an Appendix. The following tables show the authors and contents of the volumes of Transactions thus far published: 1869-1870.- Volume I. Hadley, J.: On the nature and theory of the Greek accent. Whitney, W. D.: On the nature and designation of the accent in Sanskrit. Goodwin, W. W.: On the aorist subjunctive and future indicative with ows and οὐ μή. Trumbull, J. Hammond: On the best method of studying the North American languages. Haldeman, S. S.: On the German vernacular of Pennsylvania. Whitney, W. D.: On the present condition of the question as to the origin of language. Lounsbury, T. R.: On certain forms of the English verb which were used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Trumbull, J. Hammond: On some mistaken notions of Algonkin grammar, and on mistranslations of words from Eliot's Bible, etc. Van Name, A.: Contributions to Creole Grammar. Proceedings of the preliminary meeting (New York, 1868), of the first annual session (Poughkeepsie, 1869), and of the second annual session (Rochester, 1870). 1871. - Volume II. Evans, E. W.: Studies in Cymric philology. Allen, F. D.: On the so-called Attic second declension. Whitney, W. D.: Strictures on the views of August Schleicher respecting the nature of language and kindred subjects. Hadley, J.: On English vowel quantity in the thirteenth century and in the nineteenth. March, F. A.: Anglo-Saxon and Early English pronunciation. Bristed, C. A.: Some notes on Ellis's Early English Pronunciation. Trumbull, J. Hammond: On Algonkin names for man. Greenough, J. B.: On some forms of conditional sentences in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. Proceedings of the third annual session, New Haven, 1871. 1872. - Volume III. Evans, E. W.: Studies in Cymric philology. Trumbull, J. Hammond: Words derived from Indian languages of North America. Hadley, J.: On the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the tenth century, as illustrated by a manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Stevens, W. A.: On the substantive use of the Greek participle. Bristed, C. A.: Erroneous and doubtful uses of the word such. Hartt, C. F.: Notes on the Lingoa Geral, or Modern Tupí of the Amazonas. Whitney, W. D.: On material and form in language. March, F. A.: Is there an Anglo-Saxon language? March, F. A.: On some irregular verbs in Anglo-Saxon. Trumbull, J. Hammond: Notes on forty versions of the Lord's Prayer in Algonkin languages. Proceedings of the fourth annual session, Providence, 1872. 1873. — Volume IV. Allen, F. D.: The Epic forms of verbs in áw. Evans, E. W.: Studies in Cymric philology. Hadley, J.: On Koch's treatment of the Celtic element in English. Haldeman, S. S.: On the pronunciation of Latin, as presented in several recent grammars. Packard, L. R.: On some points in the life of Thucydides. Goodwin, W. W.: On the classification of conditional sentences in Greek syntax. March, F. A.: Recent discussions of Grimm's law. Lull, E. P.: Vocabulary of the language of the Indians of San Blas and Caledonia Bay, Darien. Proceedings of the fifth annual session, Easton, 1873. 1874. - Volume V. Tyler, W. S.: On the prepositions in the Homeric poems. Harkness, A.: On the formation of the tenses for completed action in the Latin finite verb. Haldeman, S. S.: On an English vowel-mutation, present in cag, keg. Packard, L. R.: On a passage in Homer's Odyssey (λ 81-86). . Trumbull, J. Hammond: On numerals in American Indian languages, and the Indian mode of counting. Sewall, J. B.: On the distinction between the subjunctive and optatives modes in Greek conditional sentences. Morris, C. D.: On the age of Xenophon at the time of the Anabasis. Whitney, W. D.: Þúσel or déσe-natural or conventional? Proceedings of the sixth annual session, Hartford, 1874. 1875.-Volume VI. Harkness, A.: On the formation of the tenses for completed action in the Latin finite verb. Haldeman, S. S.: On an English consonant-mutation, present in proof, prove. Carter, F.: On Begemann's views as to the weak preterit of the Germanic verbs. Morris, C. D.: On some forms of Greek conditional sentences. Williams, A.: On verb-reduplication as a means of expressing completed action. Sherman, L. A.: A grammatical analysis of the Old English poem "The Owl and the Nightingale." Proceedings of the seventh annual session, Newport, 1875. Gildersleeve, B. L.: On e with the future indicative and èáv with the subjunctive in the tragic poets. Packard, L. R.: On Grote's theory of the structure of the Iliad. Humphreys, M. W.: On negative commands in Greek. Toy, C. H.: On Hebrew verb-etymology. Whitney, W. D.: A botanico-philological problem. Goodwin, W. W.: On shall and should in protasis, and their Greek equivalents. Humphreys, M. W.: On certain influences of accent in Latin iambic trimeters. Trumbull, J. Hammond: On the Algonkin verb. Haldeman, S. S.: On a supposed mutation between / and u. Proceedings of the eighth annual session, New York, 1876. 1877. - Volume VIII. Packard, L. R.: Notes on certain passages in the Phaedo and the Gorgias of Plato. Toy, C. H.: On the nominal basis on the Hebrew verb. Allen, F. D.: On a certain apparently pleonastic use of us. Whitney, W. D.: On the relation of surd and sonant. Holden, E. S.: On the vocabularies of children under two years of age. Goodwin, W. W.: On the text and interpretation of certain passages in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Stickney, A.: On the single case-form in Italian. Carter, F.: On Willmann's theory of the authorship of the Nibelungenlied. Sihler, E. G.: On Herodotus's and Aeschylus's accounts of the battle of Salamis. Whitney, W. D.: On the principle of economy as a phonetic force. Carter, F. On the Kürenberg hypothesis. March, F. A. On dissimilated gemination. Proceedings of the ninth annual session, Baltimore, 1877. Gildersleeve, B. L.: Contributions to the history of the articular infinitive. Humphreys, M. W.: Influence of accent in Latin dactylic hexameters. |