BUCK, CARL DARLING ), American philolo gist, was born Oct. 2, 1866, at Orland, Maine. He graduated at Yale in 1886, and was a post-graduate student there, at the American school of classical studies in Athens, and in Leipzig. In 1892 he became assistant professor and in 1900 professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology in the Uni versity of Chicago; but it is in the narrower field of the Italic dialects that his important work lies, including Der V ocalismus der Oskischen Sprache (1892) ; The Oscan-Umbrian Verb-System (1895), and Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian 0904). He also wrote Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects (19o9). BUCK, DUDLEY (1839-1909), American musical com poser, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on March Io, 1839. He studied at Leipzig, Dresden and Paris. After assisting Theodore Thomas as conductor of the renowned New York orchestral con certs (1875), he became organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn (1877-1903). He was well known as a com poser of church music cantatas (Columbus, 1876; Golden Legend, 188o; Light of Asia, 1885, etc.), a grand opera, Serapis; a comic opera, Deseret (188o) ; a symphonic overture, Marmion, and a symphony in E flat. He died on Oct. 6, 1909.