Excerpt from Philological Studies in Ancient GlassThe writer is glad to have this opportunity of expressing her thanks to Dr. W. A. Oldfather in particular, not only for suggesting the subject, but also for help in collecting material, for advice and criticism, and for assistance with the proof, to President A. S. Pease for many helpful suggestions and criticisms on the sections used as her thesis, and for material from his reading, to Drs. Rachel Sargent, J. C. Austin, A. F. Pauli, and Eunice Couch for valuable aid in reading the proof, and much helpful advice, to all the professors, librarians, and graduate students in the institutions in which the writer has worked, for assistance in many ways, or for making the facilities Of the institutions available to her, and to the University of Illinois for publishing this study.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.