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only have been a casual cursive: e.g., Naples, Coll. Santangelo, 271; Berlin, 1756; Munich, 17, 19; Boston, 364. Other cases of the same and of later date, where the other letters of the inscriptions are prevailingly, though not universally, written in the Attic alphabet, are Berlin, 1732, 1758; Coll. Spagna, in Kretschmer, p. 138; Naples, Rac. Cumana, 207; Berlin, 2531; Dresden, in Arch. Anz. 1892, p. 166; Berlin, 2529; Palermo, in Klein, l.c., p. 71; etc., etc.

In this paper I have endeavored to show (1) that < C form the close of a continuous series of developments of Attic >; (2) that the form was used in inscriptions of a date earlier than that at which the Attic alphabet passed out of use, and as there used in connection with Attic letters may well have been an Attic letter (though not necessarily so); (3) that it could not have been Ionic in origin, since at this time the symbol had another significance in several alphabets closely related to the Ionic; and (4) that it could not have been the Ionic cursive form of <, since this letter had at this time established itself in another and quite different cursive form. The conclusion is therefore forced upon us that sigma lunatum is derived from the three-bar Attic sigma. And in the text-criticism of the earliest autographic copies of the great writers of the classical age, as well as in the transcripts of much later date, we shall hereafter have to deal with the crescent form of sigma.

APPENDIX.

I. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION, PROVIDENCE, R. I., 1896.

II. TREASURER'S REPORT (p. iv.).

III.

IV.

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD (p. lxvii.).

LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS (p. lxxix.).

V. CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION (p. xciv.). VI. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION (p. xcvi.).

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE TWENTY-EIGHTH

ANNUAL SESSION (PROVIDENCE).

Frederic D. Allen, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

George Gillespie Allen, Malden, Mass.

Francis G. Allinson, Brown University, Providence, R. I.

George K. Bartholomew, English and Classical School, Cincinnati, O.

William N. Bates, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

A. L. Bondurant, University of Mississippi, University, Miss.

Demarchus C. Brown, Butler College, Irvington, Ind.
Carleton L. Brownson, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Walter H. Buell, Scranton, Pa.

Mitchell Carroll, Richmond College, Richmond, Va.
Edward B. Clapp, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
Arthur S. Cooley, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
M. E. Dunham, University of Colorado, Boulder, Col.
Mortimer Lamson Earle, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Herman L. Ebeling, Miami University, Oxford, O.

W. A. Eckels, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Thomas H. Eckfeldt, Friends' Academy, New Bedford, Mass.

L. H. Elwell, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

Arthur Fairbanks, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

H. Rushton Fairclough, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal.
O. M. Fernald, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

Susan B. Franklin, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Julius Goebel, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Palo Alto, Cal.
Thomas D. Goodell, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Alfred Gudeman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Albert Harkness, Brown University, Providence, R. I.

Albert Granger Harkness, Brown University, Providence, R. I.
Karl P. Harrington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Samuel Hart, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.

John H. Hewitt, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.

Henry T. Hildreth, Roanoke College, Salem, Va.

William A. Houghton, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

Albert A. Howard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Andrew Ingraham, Swain Free School, New Bedford, Mass.

A. V. Williams Jackson, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
Lida Shaw King, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Charles Knapp, Barnard College, New York, N. Y.
Abby Leach, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Thomas B. Lindsay, Boston University, Boston, Mass.

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