A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Whitney, William Dwight
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Whitney, William Dwight (1827-1894). -- Philologist, b. at Northampton, Mass., was Prof. of Sanskrit, etc., at Yale, and chief ed. of the Century Dictionary. Among his books are Darwinism and Language and The Life and Growth of Language.