408 P. Beveridge, “Of the Aborigines inhabiting the Great Lacustrine and Riverine Depression of the Lower Murray, Lower Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan, and Lower Darling,” _Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1883_, vol. xvii. (Sydney, 1884) p. 36. 409 R. Brough Smyth, _The Aborigines of Victoria_, i. 214. 410 W. Stanbridge, “Some Particulars of the General Characteristics, Astronomy, and Mythology of the Tribes in the Central Part of Victoria, South Australia,” _Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London_, N.S., i. (1861) p. 291. 411 Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), p. 22. M95 The digging of the earth for wild fruits may have led to the origin of agriculture. M96 The discovery of agriculture due mainly to women. M97 Women as agricultural labourers among the Aryans of Europe. The Greek conception of the Corn Goddess probably originated in a simple personification of the corn. 412 O. Schrader, _Reallexikon der indogermanischen Altertumskunde_ (Strasburg, 1901), pp. 6 _sqq._, 630 _sqq._; _id._, _Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte_3 (Jena, 1905-1907), ii. 201 _sqq._; H. Hirt, _Die Indogermanen_, i. 251 _sqq._, 263, 274. The use of oxen to draw the plough is very ancient in Europe. On the rocks at Bohuslän in Sweden there is carved a rude representation of a plough drawn by oxen and guided by a ploughman: it is believed to date from the Bronze Age. See H. Hirt, _op. cit._ i. 286. 413 Strabo, iii. 4. 17, p. 165; Heraclides Ponticus, “De rebus publicis,” 33, in _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, ii. 219. 414 Tacitus, _Germania_, 15. 415 J. Spieth, _Die Ewe-Stämme_ (Berlin, 1906), p. 313. 416 (Sir) G. Grey, _Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia_ (London, 1841), ii. 292. M98 Suggested derivation of the name Demeter. 417 W. Mannhardt, _Mythologische Forschungen_ (Strasburg, 1884), pp. 292 _sqq._ See above, p. 40, note 3. 418 O. Schrader, _Reallexikon der indogermanischen Altertumskunde_ (Strasburg, 1901), pp. 11, 289; _id._, _Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte_2 (Jena, 1890), pp. 409, 422; _id._, _Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte_3 (Jena, 1905-1907), ii. 188 _sq._ Compare V. Hehn, _Kulturpflanzen und Hausthiere in ihrem Uebergang aus Asien_7 (Berlin, 1902), pp. 58 _sq._ 419 Hesiod, _Theog._ 969 _sqq._; F. Lenormant, in Daremberg et Saglio, _Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines_, i. 2, p. 1029; Kern, in Pauly-Wissowa’s _Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft_, iv. 2, coll. 2720 _sq._