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the work, and had he lived the dictionary would probably have been finished before
the war. His loss was really the beginning of the end of the international undertaking.
Anybody familiar with this sort of work will know what care and patience, what
scholarly knowledge and judgment are involved in the collection of such material, in
the sorting, the sifting and final arrangement of it, in the adding of cross references,
in the consideration of etymological puzzles, in the comparison and correction of
various or faulty readings, and in the verification of references given by others, or
found in the indexes. For all this work the users of the Dictionary will have to
thank my colleague. Dr. William Stede. It may be interesting to notice here that
the total number of references to appear in this first edition of the new dictionary is
estimated to be between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty thousand.
The Bavarian Academy has awarded to Dr. Stede a personal grant of 3100 marks
for his work on this Dictionary.
Chipstead, Surrey. July, 1921. T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.