M. J. van Baarda, “Fabelen, Verhalen, en Overleveringen der Galelareezen,” _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_, xlv. (1895) p. 511. Footnote 76: A. G. Vorderman, “Planten-animisme op Java,” _Teysmannia_, No. 2, 1896, pp. 59 _sq._; _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, ix. (1896) p. 175. Footnote 77: A. G. Vorderman, _op. cit._ p. 60; _Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, ix. (1896) p. 176. Footnote 78: A. G. Vorderman, _op. cit._ pp. 61-63. Footnote 79: A. de Humboldt, _Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent_, ii. (Paris, 1819) pp. 369 _sq._, 429 _sq._ Footnote 80: Elsdon Best, “Maori Nomenclature,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii. (1902) p. 197. Footnote 81: Herodotus, i. 193; Theophrastus, _Historia plantarum_, ii. 8. 4; Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xiii. 31, 34 _sq._ In this passage Pliny states that naturalists distinguished the sexes of all trees and plants. On Assyrian monuments a winged figure is often represented holding an object which looks like a pine-cone to a palm-tree. The scene has been ingeniously and with great probability explained by Professor E. B. Tylor as the artificial fertilisation of the date-palm by means of the male inflorescence. See his paper in _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology_, xii. (1890) pp. 383-393. On the artificial fertilisation of the date-palm, see C. Ritter, _Vergleichende Erdkunde von Arabien_ (Berlin, 1847), ii. 811, 827 _sq._ Footnote 82: D. Chwolsohn, _Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus_ (St. Petersburg, 1856), ii. 36, 251. Mohammed forbade the artificial fertilisation of the palm, probably because of the superstitions attaching to the ceremony. But he had to acknowledge his mistake. See D. S. Margoliouth, _Mohammed and the Rise of Islam_, p. 230 (a passage pointed out to me by Dr. A. W. Verrall). Footnote 83: Sir W. H. Sleeman, _Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official_ (Westminster, 1893), i. 38 _sq._; compare _Census of India, 1901_, vol. xiii., _Central Provinces_, part i. p. 92. Footnote 84: _Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, lxxii., part iii. (Calcutta, 1904) p. 42. Footnote 85: J. A. Dubois, _Mœurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l’Inde_ (Paris, 1825), ii. 448 _sq._; Monier Williams, _Religious Life and Thought in India_, pp. 333-335; W. Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), ii. 110 _sq._ According to another account, it is Vishnu, not Krishna, to whom the holy plant is annually married in every pious Hindoo family. See _Census of India, 1901_, vol. xviii., _Baroda_, p. 125. Footnote 86: Sir Henry M. Elliot, _Memoirs on the History, Folklore, and Distribution of the Races of the North-western Provinces of India_, edited by J. Beames (London, 1869), i. 233 _sq._ Footnote 87: W. Crooke, _op. cit._ i. 49. Footnote 88: