The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-27
THE PHlL0LOGlCAL CONVENTION IN NEW
HAVEN.

The address or Dr.. Crosby on Tuesday evening
was devoted to discussion of the sc fence OF Phol-
Ogy the nature OF The field ana the character OF the
work.
Professor Comfort, of New York, read an article
upon the subject of 'The Precedence of Education
In the Modern and Ancient Languages" he held
that In the preparatory course for college the living
languages should be studied, and that Latin should
not be taken up until the last OF the sophomore year,
and Greek one term later.
Yesterday morning the association reassembled at
nine O'CLOCK. Over one hundred members were
present.
Professor Hadley, Of Yale, read a paper on ''Eng.
lish Vowel Quantity in the Nineteenth and Thir-
tcenth Centuries.' The paper embraced u lengthy
discussion or the changes IN the quantity OF vOwes
and what has occasoned them.
Mr. c. A. Bristed, of New York. read q paper en-
titled "Notes Ellis History OF the Early Pronun-
citation OF the English" He treated of Mr.. Ellis
system of palacotype-a phonetic writing for scien
tinc purposes-and found fault with the work on
the ground that it was cumbrous and hypercrJical.
He objected to his notation Of certain sounds IN the
English and disputed some OF MS points, particularly
In regard to the sound or French ~ - lie furtner
objected to MIR. Ellis proposed reconstruction of
English orthogapny for the reason that as there Is
no absolute standard Of pronunciation there could
be no fixed standard of phonetic spelling.
Professor March, OF Lafayette College, read n
paper on 'Anglo-Saxon and Early English Orthog-
rapnyn He sought to prove the pronunciation Of
certain consonant5 by illustrations OF ALTERATION in
early English poetry and by showing that when the
pronunciation changed the ALTERATION also changed.
Also by means OF certain phonetic laws Of Anglo
Saxon. He gave numerous illustrations, many OF
which were drawn from the works OF the Anglo
Saxon poets.
nants and OF several local pronunciations was dts
cussed by Professors HaIdeman ana Schlegel and
At the AFTERNOON session Professor W. T. Alien, of
the Wisconsin University, read long article upon
The subject OF "The So-calied Attic second Decen-
lie was followed by Professor KendricK, of the Ro-
chester University, who read paper on "I rae
during the classical period both nard and soft aspi
rates mad a double sound, ana argued against the
claim of Kurtzius that the double sound contln
ucd into the second and tnird century. He further
held, however. that the hard aspirates never
had their iu aro dou 1nev sS Sd ose sound ha midi
way between that and the sound commonly
given them. Professors Crosby and Haldeman
Hammond Trumbull, OF Hartford, read an article on
"a mode of counting supposed TO have been used
by the Wawenoc Indians, OF Name" After referring
TO fact that Dr.. Koh In his history OF discoveries
In Maine states that the numerals IN use among the
Wawenocs bore resemblance TO the lceiandlc, he
proceeds to state evidence showing that the nume-
rails had Welsh origin. A friend OF his had learned
to count them from MS father, VINO lived IN Mas s
chusetts, and q lady IN Western New YORK mad
learned them OF her mother, who used 10 I'VE near
the Narragansett Indians. Further than THIS,
Alexander j. Ellis, OF London, had recently pre-
sented TO the London Pathological society numerals
used In scoring sheep IN Yorkshire dales which were
SURPRISINGLY ike the WawenOc numerals, anu MI
Ellis was OF Mr.. Trumbus opinion, that the wave
noe numerals were OF Welsh origin.
Rev. Joseph Anderson OF Waterbury, read paper
entitled 1.-THE newly discovered relationship oil the
Tuteloes to the Dakota stock THIS paper, aIter
giving little history o! the Tutel0 Indians, who
were when first known, situated IN virginia ana
afterwards Incorporated with the SIX Nations,
showed that they were not OF the roquois Stock Dut
OF the Dakota. This was proved by vocabulary
OF words obtained rom an Old Indian named NIX
ungha who is the last OF the race. ihey were on
tanned last winter by Horace Hale OF CLINTON, can
ada, and show affinity to the lroquols language,
but to the Dakota.
The association adjourned until this morning.
In the evening the members attended pleasant
reception at the gallery OF the Yale Art School,
which was given by the local committee.
In Tuesdays report IL should nave been stated
that DR.. Hairs paper on Imperfect lenses favored
the use oil ''is being'' and the like forms.