[1] Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. xvii.; Washington, 1871.

[2] Studies in Ancient History, 1st series, 1876, p. 331.

[3] Op. cit., p. 373.

[4] Zur Urgeschichte der Ehe, Stuttgart, 1897 (reprinted from Zeitsch. f. vergleich. Rechtswiss., 1897, xii., 187).

[5] Journ. Roy. Anth. Inst., 1909, xxxix, 77.

[6] The full account of these and other facts cited in these lectures will appear shortly in a work on The History of Melanesian Society, to be published by the Cambridge University Press.

[7] Op. cit., p. 366.

[8] In this and other diagrams capital letters are used to represent men and the smaller letters women.

[9] Grant, Gazetteer of Central Provinces, Nagpur, 2nd ed., 1870, p. 276.

[10] The Melanesians, p. 38.

[11] I leave out of account here those cases in which members of different generations are denoted by a reciprocal term.

[12] Op. cit., p. 384.

[13] Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia, Cambridge, 1906, p. 123.

[14] This is the Mota name for Pentecost Island.

[15] Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 164, 177.

[16] Zeitsch. f. vergleich. Rechtswiss., 1910, xxiii., 330.

[17] Rep. Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits, vol. v., pp. 135 and 241.

[18] I know of no complete record of the terminology of the fourth chief language of South India, Malayalam.

[19] I take my data from the lists compiled for Morgan by the Rev. E. C. Scudder and the Rev. B. Rice, Morgan’s Systems ..., pp. 537-566. These lists are not complete, giving in some cases only the terms used in address. They agree in general with some lists compiled during the recent Indian Census which Mr. E. A. Gait has kindly sent to me.

[20] Rivers, The Todas, 1906, pp. 487, 512.

[21] Journal Royal Asiatic Society, 1907, p. 611.

[22] See Morgan, Systems ..., Table II.

[23] Loc. cit.

[24] Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Washington, vol. ix.

[25] Preface to above.

[26] Op. cit., p. 82.

[27] Swanton, Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haidahs, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1905, vol. v., pt. i., p. 62. Miss Freire-Marreco tells me that the cross-cousin marriage occurs among some of the Hopi Indians.

[28] See The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge, 1910, p. 707.

[29] Ibid., pp. 482 and 436.

[30] The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge, 1910, p. 482.

[31] Rep. Austral. Ass., 1900, viii., 301.

[32] See Tables in Morgan’s Systems ..., pp. 79-127.

[33] Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor, Oxford, 1907, p. 309.

[34] For the full evidence on these topics see my forthcoming book The History of Melanesian Society.

[35] Census of India, 1911, vol. xv., p. 234.

[36] In such a case the use of the term by other members of the household, including women, would be the result of a later extension of meaning.

[37] See also “Survival in Sociology,” Sociological Review, 1913, vol. vi., p. 293. I hope shortly to deal more fully with the relations between sociology and social psychology.