The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

[209] Crawfurd, History of the Indian Archipelago, Vol.  I. p. 256.

[210] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 39.

[211] Op. cit., p. 41.

[212] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. i. p. 317.  See also Chap.  III., supra.

[213] Long, S.H., Expedition, Vol.  II. p. lxxviii.

[214] Martius, Glossaria Ling.  Brasil., p. 246.

[215] Hale, Ethnography and Philology, p. 434.

[216] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. ii. p. 82.

[217] The information upon which the above statements are based was obtained from Mr. W.L.  Williams, of Gisborne, N.Z.

[218] Primitive Culture, Vol.  I. p. 268.

[219] Ralph, Julian, Harper’s Monthly, Vol. 86, p. 184.

[220] Lappenberg, J.M., History of Eng. under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, Vol.  I. p. 82.

[221] The compilation of this table was suggested by a comparison found in the Bulletin Soc.  Anth. de Paris, 1886, p. 90.

[222] Hale, Ethnography and Philology, p. 126.

[223] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. ii. p. 183.

[224] Bachofen, J.J., Antiquarische Briefe, Vol.  I. pp. 101-115, and Vol.  II. pp. 1-90.

[225] An extended table of this kind may be found in the last part of Nystrom’s Mechanics.

[226] Schubert, H., quoting Robert Flegel, in Neumayer’s Anleitung zu Wissenschaftlichen Beobachtung auf Reisen, Vol.  II. p. 290.

[227] These numerals, and those in all the sets immediately following, except those for which the authority is given, are to be found in Chapter III.

[228] Codrington, The Melanesian Languages, p. 222.

[229] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. ii. p. 83.

[230] Op. cit., I. ii. p. 55.  The next two are the same, p. 83 and p. 210.  The meaning given for the Bari puoek is wholly conjectural.

[231] Gallatin, “Semi-civilized Nations,” Tr.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., Vol.  I. p. 114.

[232] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. ii. p. 80.  Erromango, the same.

[233] Boas, Fr., Proc.  Brit.  Ass’n.  Adv.  Science, 1889, p. 857.

[234] Hankel, H., Geschichte der Mathematik, p. 20.

[235] Murdoch, J., “Eskimos of Point Barrow,” Am.  Anthr., 1890, p. 40.

[236] Martius, Glos.  Ling.  Brasil., p. 360.

[237] Du Graty, A.M., La Republique du Paraguay, p. 217.

[238] Codrington, The Melanesian Languages, p. 221.

[239] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. i. p. 363.

[240] Spurrell, W., Welsh Grammar, p. 59.

[241] Olmos, Andre de, Grammaire Nahuatl ou Mexicaine, p. 191.

[242] Moncelon, Bull.  Soc. d’Anthr. de Paris, 1885, p. 354.  This is a purely digital scale, but unfortunately M. Moncelon does not give the meanings of any of the numerals except the last.

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