¹ There can of course be obituaries of nonhumans, even of inanimate or abstract entities; for instance, Peter Mackridge's ‘Katharevousa (c. 1800–1974): An obituary for an official language’ (Background to contemporary Greece, ed. by Marion Sarafis and M. Eve, 25–51, London: Merlin Press, 1990) is an ‘obituary’ of katharevousa, the puristic variety of Modern Greek given up officially in Greece after the fall of the junta in 1974.

² The exact date of publication of the first issue seems not to be directly recorded in or on the journal itself; as best I can tell, Language 1.1 must have appeared after March 31, 1925 (the closing date given in the list of Foundation Members, p. 26) and not long after that, as the next enumeration (p. 68, in issue 1.2) gives April 8 as its cut-off date.

³ Till 1940; he was LSA President in 1941. His obituary, written by George S. Lane, was published in Language 29.1–13 (1953).

⁴ The passing of members is now noted in the LSA Bulletin, however.