罗振玉据天一阁、甲秀堂、顾研诸本,讨论了75个石鼓文形体。运用的考释方法有历史形体比较、形音义综合考察、偏旁分析、运用文字学规律、比照文献资料等,值得注意的是还有利用语源学相关知识、书写形式和文例类推等。在考释的同时,罗氏对文字之相关问题多有阐发。
Luo Zhenyu studied the stone drums inscriptions based on the previous research results. He discussed about seventy -five characters. In his notes, the main methods are historical comparison and analysis ofthe character components. It is noteworthy that Luo applied such methods as "to explain characters according tothe meaning of context", "to explain characters according to ancient literatures", "to explain characters according to the examples and sentence structure in literature", "to explain characters according to the linguisticknowledge", "to explain characters according to the written forms". Luo discussed on some valuable problems ofphilology in his research.