This volume was dedicated to the memory of Otto Johns Scheerer (1858–1938), one of the founders and heads of the Department of Linguistics (then named the Department of Oriental Languages) in the University of the Philippines. The dedication page indicates that Scheerer was “Founder and First Editor of This Journal”, suggesting that the 1970s Archive was already a revival in itself.

The Foreword to this first volume of the “New Series,” written by Cecilio Lopez, lists some of the papers they had in their files; papers that were salvaged from the destruction wrought by the Second World War.

It is also in this volume that we have the article by Cecilio Lopez Some New Morphemes in Philippine Languages, appearing for the first time, and an article by Videa de Guzman Syntactic Comparison of Tagalog, Maori, and Chamorro.