The Number Concept: Its Origin and DevelopmentConant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
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The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development
Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
Number concept
[328] Adam, L., _Congres International des Americanistes_, 1877, Vol. II.
p. 244. Given also _supra_, p. 53.
[329] O'Donovan, _Irish Grammar_, p. 123.
[330] Armstrong, R.A., _Gaelic Dict._, p. xxi.
[331] Spurrell, _Welsh Dictionary_.
[332] Kelly, _Triglot Dict._, pub. by the Manx Society.
[333] Guillome, J., _Grammaire Francaise-Bretonne_, p. 27.
[334] Groeber, G., _Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie_, Bd. I. p. 309.
[335] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 88.
[336] Van Eys, _Basque Grammar_, p. 27.
[337] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 101.
[338] _Op. cit._, p. 78.
[339] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, I. ii. p. 124.
[340] _Op. cit._, p. 155.
[341] _Op. cit._, p. 140.
[342] _Op. cit._, _loc. cit._
[343] Schweinfurth, _Reise nach Centralafrika_, p. 25.
[344] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, IV. i. p. 83.
[345] _Op. cit._, IV. i. p. 81.
[346] _Op. cit._, I. ii. p. 166.
[347] Long, C.C., _Central Africa_, p. 330.
[348] Peacock, _Encyc. Met._, Vol. I. p. 388.
[349] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, III. ii. p. 64. The next seven scales
are from _op. cit._, pp. 80, 137, 155, 182, 213.
[350] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 83.
[351] _Op. cit._, p. 83,--Akari, p. 84; Circassia, p. 85.
[352] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. i. p. 140.
[353] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 87.
[354] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. ii. p. 346.
[355] _Op. cit._, III. i. p. 130.
[356] Man, E.H., "Brief Account of the Nicobar Islands," _Journ. Anthr.
Inst._, 1885, p. 435.
[357] Wells, E.R., Jr., and Kelly, J.W., "Eng. Esk. and Esk. Eng. Vocab.,"
Bureau of Education Circular of Information, No. 2, 1890, p. 65.
[358] Petitot, E., _Vocabulaire Francaise Esquimau_, p. lv.
[359] Boas, Fr., _Proc. Brit. Ass. Adv. Sci._, 1889, p. 857.
[360] Boas, _Sixth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada_, p. 117.
[361] Boas, Fr., _Fifth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada_, p.
85.
[362] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 114. References for the next
two are the same.
[363] Bancroft, H.H., _Native Races of the Pacific States_, Vol. II. p.
763. The meanings are from Brinton's _Maya Chronicles_, p. 38 _et seq._
[364] Brinton, _Maya Chronicles_, p. 44.
[365] Simeon Remi, _Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl_, p. xxxii.
[366] An error occurs on p. xxxiv of the work from which these numerals are
taken, which makes the number in question appear as 279,999,999 instead of
1,279,999,999.
[367] Gallatin, "Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America,"
_Tr. Am. Ethn. Soc._ Vol. I. p. 114.
[368] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 89. The Totonacos were the first race Cortez
encountered after landing in Mexico.
[369] _Op. cit._, p. 90. The Coras are of the Mexican state of Sonora.
[370] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 114.
[371] Humboldt, _Recherches_, Vol. II. p. 112.
[372] Squier, _Nicaragua_, Vol. II. p. 326.
[373] Gallatin, _Semi-Civilized Nations_, p. 57.
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