The Scandinavian Philological Society of America was organized last Friday at Hitchcock Hall, University of Chicago.

The local arrangements committee consisted of Professor C. N. Gould, A. G. S. Josephson, and J. C. M. Hanson, director of the university library.

The following papers were read:

1. "A Sketch of Scandinavian Study in American Colleges," by Professor George T. Flom.

2. "Frithjof's Saga," by Professor A. M. Sturtevant.

3. "The Chronology of Fornaldarsagur," by Dr. Lee M. Hollander.

4. A paper by Professor Gudmund Schuette, University of Copenhagen, read by Dr. Henry Leach of Harvard.

5. "Recent Attacks on the Historical Reliability of the Vinland Sagas," by Professor Julius Olsen.

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6. "Traces of Old Norse Paganism in Swedish Christian Customs of Today," by Professor Jules Mauritzon.

7. "A Type of Germanic Word-formation in the Scandinavian Languages," by O. L. Bloomfield.

During an intermission at this point in the program a number of Scandinavian songs were sung by Professor Olsen.

8. "An Unpublished Fragment of the Old Norse Konungs Skuggja," by Professor George T. Flom, University of Illinois.

9. "Repetition as an Element in Selma Lagerlof's Style," by Dr. Louis Elmquist [Swede], Northwestern University.

This new organization will, no doubt, contribute much to science.