Professor Toy, of Harvard University, furnished to the committee a transliteration table for Semitic languages, Professor Lanman, of the same University, one for Sanskrit, and Mr. Heilprin, of the committee, one for Russian.
Professor LANMAN remarked on his table:
1. It will be observed that each of the five rows numbered 1 to 5 consists of five letters; the second and fourth in each, i. e., the aspirates, are often written, especially in older works, thus, k῾, g῾, c῾, j῾,
῾,
῾, t῾, d῾, p῾, b῾; that is, the rough breathing takes the place of the h.
2. Write long vowels with a macron, thus, ā, ī, ū,
