¹ See Bolling's unsigned obituary of Maurice Bloomfield, Lg, 4.21–7 (1928).

² A relatively recent example is R. Schröter, Gnomon 25.18 (1953): ‘Der Verfasser referiert hier [in Ilias Atheniensium] seine Hauptthese, aber als einer, der aus dem Vollen jahrzehntelanger Arbeit schöpft und demnach seine Akzente setzt.’ It is a measure of Bolling's stature that his works gave rise to a number of famous reviews, among them an appraisal by H. Fränkel, GGA 188.237 ff. (1926). See also G. Knebel, ‘Bemerkungen zu “Description of epeí's syntax” von G. Melville Bolling’, Glotta 38.38–43 (1959).

³ Called II in noncommittal deference to the tyrant Pisistratus, who according to legend commissioned the compiling of the text.

^3a Note that Bolling contributed two short pieces, initialed rather than signed (one in 1899 and one in 1915), to the section ‘Brief mention’, which was something like Gildersleeve's private preserve within the journal. Apparently his first paper, as well as his last, appeared in the American journal of philology.

⁴ See the preface of C. F. Hockett's Manual of phonology (Baltimore, 1955).

⁵ A glance at the bibliography below will find examples.

⁶ See Pasquali's Storia della tradizione e critica del testo ² (Firenze, 1952), under Bolling's name in the index, esp. 224 ff.; also, on the relation between Pasquali's discussion and Bolling's subsequent work, Schröter 19. Further, see Bolling's own statement, Ilias Atheniensium 13.

Pasquali's remark apropos an unjustly forgotten scholar of the past (E. L. de Stefani)—‘Da vivo egli non fu apprezzato quanto meritava, perchè fu sempre contrario a generalità e trivialità estetiche’ (op.cit. 31)—is exactly what Bolling would have been likely to say in a similar context. ‘Literati’ he did not like; the opprobrium carried weight on the lips of a man who knew how to interpret closely and with great sensitivity all that a literary text will yield.

^6a These two men, with Edgar H. Sturtevant of Yale, constituted the organizing committee actually responsible for mailing copies of the Call to potentially interested persons on 15 November of that year.

⁷ See in particular Lg. 24.47–50 (1948); Lg. 26.371–8 (1950); Lg. 30.453–4 (1954); Glotta 38.18–38 (1959).

⁸ The message, part of the resolution adopted by the Society at the end of its annual meeting in December 1960, reads as follows: ‘Finally, we note with pleasure that on April 13th of the coming year, George M. Bolling—one of the founders of our Society and for 15 years the Editor of Language—will celebrate his ninetieth birthday. On this happy occasion, we who have just spent three days enjoying the long-range results of his vision join his many other friends and pupils in wishing him undimmed prosperity. May he continue for many years as the youngest in spirit of Homeric scholars and the best-loved member of the Linguistic Society.‘

⁹ Volume 81, number 1. Language had dedicated a number to him earlier (18:1, 1942).

I am obliged to Bolling's niece, Mrs. J. F. Donoho, and to the executors of his will, M. Halsey Thomas and Thomas J. Webb, for facilitating access to his papers.