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UNIVERSITY CI RC ULARS Publis/ied with the approbaticrn of the Board of Trustees VOL. 11.—No. 22.] BALTIMORE, APRIL, 1883. [PRICE 10 CENTS. CALENDAR, 1883. Tuesday, September 19. Current Academic Year Began. Wednesday, May 2. Meeting of-Scientific Association, 8 P. M. Friday, May 4. Meeting of Philological Association, 12 M. Tuesday, May 8. Meeting of Metaphysical Club, 8 P. M. Wednesday, May 16. Meeting of Mathematical Society, 8 P~. M. Friday, May 18. Meeting of Historical and Political Science Association, 8 P. M. Monday, June 4— Friday, June 8. Examinations for Matriculation. Friday, June 8. Present Term of Instruction Closes. Tuesday, September 18. Next Academic Year Begins. Tuesday, Sept. 18—Saturday, Sept. 22. Examinations for Matriculation. Tuesday, September 25. Instructions Resumed. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Scientific Notes: DeTelopment of Renilla, by E. B. WILSON, 78—79 Philology. M. BLOOMFIELD, General Theory of Greek Accentuation.— Phenomena Presented by the Atmosphere of Venus During a Transit, by C. S. HASTINGS, J. R. HARRIS, N ormal Forms of Early Epistles.—W. J. ALEX- - . 79—80 ANDER, Participial Periphrases in Attic Prose—B. L. GILDER- Recent Publications: SLEEVE, Note on the last named paper; Studies in Pindaric Syntax.— P. B. MARCOU, French Syntax as Affected by the Catalogue of Peabody Library, parts i., ii.—T. Craig, On the Cultivation of Style.—A. EMERSON, The so-called Dying Alex- Parallel Surface to the Ellipsoid.—T. Craig, A Treatise on Pro- ander of the Uffizi Gallery—H. C. G. JAGEMANN, Mutation jections. — G. S. Morris, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. — of Consonants in French Words of Germanic Origin.— J. U. H. A. Rowland, Equivalente Meccanico della Caloria. — J. R. HARRIS, On a Transposition in Seneca.— C. D. MORRIS, The Harris, New Testament Autographs. — D. C. Gilman, James Monroe, — H. B. Adams, Saxon Tithiagmen in America. — Athenian Jurisdiction over the Allies.—On tWiG1~?/i~Gt~ . 66—69 E. W. Bemis, Local Government in Michigan.—E. Ingle, Maihemalics. Parish Institutions of Maryland. — J. F. Jameson, Montauk J. J. SYLVESTER, On a New Theorem in Partitions; the Graph- and the Common Lands of Easthampton, L. I. 81—82 ical Method in Partitions; Instantaneous Graphical Proof of Euler’s Theorem on Partitions.—W. E. SToRY, Properties of Recent Scientific Journals: Conics in Non-Euclidean Geometry.—F. FRANKLIN, On Par- American Journal of Philology.—American Journal of Mathema- titions. —W. P. DIJRFIiE, Tabulation ofSymmetric Functions, 70—72 tics.— American Chemical Journal 83 Bi’dogy. Correspondence: H. H. DONALDSON and L. T. STEVENS, influence of Quinine on the Rate of Flow through the Blood Vessels.—W. K. BROOKS, J. HAMMONTh—ARTHUR CAYLEY.—M. CESXRO.—J. J. SYLVES- Origin of Alternation of Generations in Hydro-Medusae.— TEn—C. S. PEIRcE 84—88 H. W. CONN, Radial and Bilateral Symmetry in Animals.— H. GARMAN, List of Birds Observed at Beaufort, N. C.—E. M. Brief Notices, etc.: HARTWELL, Anatomy of the Malar Bone, . 73—74 A Note on the word “Sophy.”—Sidney Lanier Memorial Fund.— Chemistry. Commemoration Day.— Recent Accessions to the Peabody I. REMSEN, The Action of Phosphorus on Moist Air and Carbon Library.— Recent Lectures and Addresses, . - . 88—89 Monoxide, . 74 Physics. Enumeration of Classes: Mathematics; Physics; Biology; Chemistry; Greek; Latin; San- G. BISSING, On the Helmholtz.Koenig Controversy, . 74 skrit; Hebrew; German; Romance Languages; English; His- Communications to the Historical and Political Science Asso- tory and Political Science; Logic; Psychology; Elocution; ciation Drawing; Physical Culture 90—93 A. JOHNSTON, Genesis of a New England State.—H. B. ADAMS, The English Parish in America; Villes and Plantations.—L. Proceedings of Societies: W. WILHELM, The Township in Maryland—B. J. RAMAGE, Scientific; Philological; Historical and Political Science; Meta- The Baltimore and Ohio Employ6s Relief Association. physical; Mathematical; Naturalists’ Field Club; Maryland Studies in Historical and Political Science, . 75—77 Historical Society, . 94 66 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 22. SCIENTIFIC NOTES On the work of members of this University in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ancient and Modern Languages, History, Political Science, Psychology, Ethics, and Logic. NOTES IN PHILOLOGY. On the General Theory of Greek Accentuation, by M. BLOOM- has the accentuation of enclitics, which receive an accent, when the word FIELD. exceeds two syllables or three morae according to the laws of “recessive” [Abstractof a paper read at the meeting of the University Philological Association, accentuation. February 2,1883]. This paper contains a series of historical and critical remarks introduc- tory to a comparative study of Greek accentuation and deals with its On the Normal Forms of Early Epistles, by J. RENDEL subject under six heads. HARRIS. 1. In an introductory chapter the phonetic bearings of the subject are [Abstract of a paper read at the meeting of the University Philological Association discussed. The main points which are omphasized are first: the distinction February 2, 1883]. between sentence-accent, word-accent, and syllable-accent, and the impor- The paper assumes the existence of pattern lines of writing among the tance of each of these three in the scientific treatment of the accent of any ancients, viz: the hexameter line and the iambic trimeter, or some language. It is shown that sentence-accent especially is just at this time submultiple of one of these. From the fact that paper was sold in given gaining a peculiarly important place in the study of Indo-European gram- sizes, it is highly probable that not only had the lines a model number of mar. Secondly, it is pointed out how important is the distinction between syllables, but that the pages had a fixed number of lines. the chiefor summit-accent of sentences and words and their general accen- If this ~vere the case it ought to be possible to determine the size of tuation, which treats with equal interest the history of pitch and stress in this normal page of wsiting from an examination of a given collection of every word of a sentence, and in every syllable of a word. letters. The method adopted was as follows: A collection of letters being IL. The second chapter is devoted to a discussion of the accentua.l phe- taken, the frequency with which letters of any assumed size recurred was nomena of the meat important languages of the Indo-European family, tabulated, and it was shown that this frequency must be a maximum for and the attempts which have been made, to establish upon the basis of the letters just under an integral number of pages of the author, and a min- separate languages a picture of the proethnic Indo-European parent lan- imum when the letter was just over an integral number; because there is guage itself. The views of Benloew and Bopp are subjected to especial a tendency, other things being equal, to finish a letter rather at the criticism, others are passed over lightly. Furthermore the attempt is made bottom of a page than at the top. to establish certain fundamental principles from which the discussion of The method was first applied to Pliny’s letters, with the following the accentuation of any single language must start. Prominent among result: the normal page of Pliny’s writing is between 7.4 and 7.6 these is the statement that accentual change must be due to and governed lines of the Teubner edition, and represents 20 half-hexameters. Traces by phonetic law, as much as any other process of change in language. were also found of the existence of a smaller page; and the results were Therefore it must be shown by what laws the peculiar features of Greek applied to the criticism of some lines in Pliny, IV. 11. From this result accent arose out of the reconstructed Indo-European accentuation. No it followed at once that the separate books of Pliny’s letters were, in explanation of the facts of Greek accent which does not connect these reality, rolls of 100 sheets apiece. with the facts of Indo-European accentuation can be worth much. The method was then applied to the letters of Cicero, with the follow- LII. The third section is devoted to a formulation of the prominent ing results; the commoner type is a letter, a single page of which is laws of Greek accent within the language itself. Gr~ek accent is largely represented by 11 Teubner-lines or near it; i. e. by 28 half-hexameters, or archaic, i. e. it has preserved the prehistoric accent of the parent language; twice what was designated in a previous paper as a V-page. still more largely however the old accentuation has been overrun by a A smaller page was also found in not a few instances. new principle, the “recessive accentuation.” It is shown that the well- The results were applied to show the manner in which the letters had known laws of this recession are in striking accord with the Greek laws of been reduced into books. Some tests were then applied to the result from enclisis, and the ground is taken that this similarity of the laws for enclisis the Epistles themselves: such as in Ep. ad Fanliliares, Book XL. 26, “Non ought to be duly considered in any attempt to explain recessive accentua- imitor Aaitemvwjt~v tuum; altera iam pagella procedit,” was shown to be tion. the bottom of the first page. LV. In this chapter the discussion turns more especially to the Greek. After a review of the literature of the subject the more prominent expla- nations of Greek accent are considered. After disposing of G6ttling’s Participial Perijphrases in Attic Prose, by W. J. ALEX.. theories, weak even in their day, the very interesting work done by Franz ANL)ER.