Professor Lanman's Trip.

Professor Charles R. Lanman, of the Semitic Department will leave Boston today on a trip of two weeks to the West Indies. He will reach Port Antonio, Jamaica, on Sunday and will remain on the Island until February 4, when he will return to Cambridge, arriving on Sunday, February 8. Professor Lanman has just completed the final revision of the great critical commentary, the Atharva Veda, of the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale. The work constitutes two royal octavo volumes of about eleven hundred pages and is being published by Ginn and Company.