In order to investigate the role meetings play in the dissemination of information in the language sciences, a questionnaire was devised to be sent to the participants in selected professional meetings. The responses from the participants in each meeting were to be analyzed to obtain a composite picture of the viewpoints represented, and the composites representing each meeting were then to be compared with each other. Difficulties prevented the completion of the study. This report contains results from two meetings: the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the National Society for the Study of Communication, and the Twentieth Annual Round Table of Georgetown University. A list of meetings proposed for study appears in Appendix A. Appendix B contains a sample letter of transmittal and a questionnaire. (Author/AM)