WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WHITNEY, WILLIAM DWIGHT (1827-1894). —Philologist, born 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 .