The information listed for the following organizations of independent scholars and organizations providing significant programs for independent scholars has been verified as of July 1990. The list is not comprehensive, and additions are welcome. They may be sent to the editorial department at the MLA office.

The information listed for the following centers has been verified as of July 1990. The list is not comprehensive, and additions are welcome. They may be sent to the editorial department at the MLA office.

The association's eighty-eighth annual meeting will be held 9-11 November 1990 in San Jose, California, hosted by San Jose State University. A local committee headed by John Engell of San Jose State University is in charge of preparations.

In keeping with its long tradition, unique among the regional MLA organizations, PAPC will again offer a program that features both Western and non-Western literatures and Greek and Latin. The 1990 program will include 31 general and 23 special sessions as well as special luncheons, a plenary session, and a forum on a topic selected by the program committee. The program will be mailed to all PAPC members whose dues were paid by 15 June 1990. Dues are $15 for regular members, $5 for students and emeriti, and $20 for joint memberships. By reciprocal agreement, NEMLA and PAPC members may participate in the meetings of both associations. For details on the program, write or call Caroline Locher, Office of Alumni Relations, Reed Coll., Portland, OR 97202-8199; 503 777-7589.

The Committee on Scholarly Editions offers numerous and varied services to editors and publishers of any kind of work or document—in print or in manuscript, in any language, from any period. In offering these services, the committee recognizes that varying editorial projects require varying editorial policies and procedures. A nineteenth-century Spanish novel and an English diplomat's papers clearly require different treatments, as do a twentieth-century poem and a medieval romance. Editing a work that survives in variant texts is different from editing the only extant text of another. The committee believes, however, that some issues are common to almost all scholarly editing and that these issues—both theoretical and practical—can be clarified and focused through communication among persons from widely varying fields.

This selected list omits prize contests and a number of purely literary fellowships. For larger, more inclusive lists, see Annual Register of Grant Support 1991 (Wilmette: National Register, 1990); Directory of Research Grants 1990 (Phoenix: Oryx, 1990); Financial Aid for Minorities in Education (Garrett Park: Garrett Park, 1990); The Foundation Directory, 12th ed. (New York: Foundation Center, 1989); The Foundation Grants Index, 18th ed. (New York: Foundation Center, 1989); Fulbright and Other Grants for Graduate Study Abroad, 1991-92 (New York: Inst. of International Education, 1990); Directory of Graduate Programs: 1990 and 1991, 4 vols. (Princeton: ETS, 1990); Virginia P. White, Grants: How to Find Out about Them and What to Do Next (New York: Plenum, 1975); The Grants Register, 1989-91, ed. Craig Alan Lerner and Roland Turner (New York: St. Martin's, 1990); Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans, ed. S. Norman Feingold and Marie Feingold, vol. 7 (Bethesda: Bellman, 1982), vol. 8 (1987); Study Abroad: 1988-91 (Lanham: Unipub, 1988); and Teaching Abroad, 4th ed., ed. Edrice Howard (New York: Inst. of International Education, 1988). The Linguistic Society of America (Suite 211, 1325 18th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036) publishes the “Guide to Grants and Fellowships in Languages and Linguistics.” Information on philanthropic foundations; books on fellowships and grants; and periodicals such as Foundation Grants to Individuals (a biannual) and the Foundation Grants Index Bimonthly, which covers over two thousand recent grants in each issue, may be obtained by writing to the Foundation Center, 79 5th Ave., New York, NY 10003, or by calling 212 620-4230.