Convention of Learned Societies.

The meetings of several learned and classical societies connected with the different American universities will be held in Philadelphia on December 27, 28 and 29. These include the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philological Association, the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the Modern Language Association of America.

Professor J. W. White, who is president of the Archaeological Institute will read a paper before the meeting on the Tzetztian Scholia, on the Aves of Aristophanes in Cod. Vat. Urb." Dr. Charles Peabody '90, of Cambridge will read a paper on "Some Prehistoric Stone Ornaments of America," Dr. G. H. Chase '96, of Southborough, will read a paper on "Shield Devices Among the Greeks" and Mr. Edward Robinson '79, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will read a paper entitled "The Magical Papyri as a Source of our Knowledge of Greek Life."

In all, thirty-seven papers will be read by professors of the different American universities including Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Chicago, Michigan and California.

Among the officers of the Institute are the following Harvard men: President, Professor J. W. White; first honorary president, Professor C. E. Norton; first vice president, Charles P. Bowditch '63. Members of the Council: Professor W. W. Goodwin, Professor Minton Warren, Edward Robinson '79 and Gardiner M. Lane '81.

The Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis will be represented at the convention by Dr. J. H. Thayer and Professor C. H. Toy.