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165. From Hammer-Purgstall’s “Fundgrube des Orients,” vol. iv, Heft 3; cited by E. F. F. Chladni, “Neues Verzeichniss der herabgefallenen Stein- und Eisenmassen,” p. 55; Gilbert’s Annalen der Physik, vol. 1.

166. E. F. F. Chladni, “Neues Verzeichniss der herabgefallenen Stein- und Eisenmassen,” p. 58; Gilbert’s Annalen der Physik, vol. 1.

168. Berthelot, “Histoire des Sciences: La Chimie au Moyen-âge,” Paris, 1893, vol. iii, p. 225.

169. Brezina, “The Arrangement of Collections of Meteorites”; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. xliii, Jan.-Dec., pp. 212, 213.

170. King, “Remarks Concerning Stones said to have Fallen from the Clouds,” London, 1796, p. 4.

171. Megenberg, “Buch der Natur,” ed. Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 92. (This is based on Thomas de Cantimpré’s “Liber de natura rerum,” written about 1240.)

172. E. F. F. Chladni, “Neues Verzeichniss der herabgefallenen Stein- und Eisenmassen,” p. 17; Gilbert’s Annalen der Physik, vol. 1. (From copy having MS. notes and emendations by the author.)

173. Metallotheca Vaticana, Romæ, 1719, p. 248.

174. Ulyssis Aldrovandi, “Museum Metallicum,” pp. 528, 529.

175. Fundgruben des Orients, vol. iv, p. 282; Wien, 1814.

176. King, “Remarks Concerning Stones said to have Fallen from the Clouds,” London, 1796, p. 26.

177. Lieut. Robert E. Peary, “Northward over the ‘Great Ice,’” New York, 1897, vol. ii, pp. 553 sqq.

178. Edmund Otis Hovey, “The Foyer Collection of Meteorites,” American Museum of Natural History, Guide Leaflet No. 26, December, 1907, pp. 23–27.

179. Henry A. Ward, “Willamette Meteorite”; Proc. Rochester Acad. of Sc., vol. iv, pp. 137–148, plates 13–18.

180. Edmund Otis Hovey, “The Foyer Collection of Meteorites,” American Museum of Natural History, Guide Leaflet No. 26, December, 1907, pp. 27, 28.

181. See the present writer’s “Diamond and Moissanite; Natural, Artificial and Meteoric,” a lecture delivered at the Twelfth General Meeting of the American Electro-chemical Society in New York City, October 18, 1907; here the literature on this important meteor is fully given. Two other interesting meteorites are described by George F. Kunz and Ernest Weinschenk in the American Journal of Science, vol. xliii, May 1892, pp. 424–426, figures.

182. See Henri Moissan, “Étude de la météorite de Cañon Diablo,” Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. cxvi (1893), pp. 288 sqq.; see also his paper on the Ovifak meteorite, Comptes Rendus, vol. cxxi (1895), pp. 483 sqq.

183. G. F. Kunz and O. W. Huntington, “On the Diamond in the Cañon Diablo Meteoric Iron and on the Hardness of Carborundum,” American Journal of Science, vol. xlvi, December, 1893.

184. George F. Kunz, “On Five American Meteorites,” American Journal of Science, vol. xl, Oct., 1890, pp. 312–323.

185. Lazarus Fletcher, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. xviii, p. 263; article Meteorites.

186. Chladni, op. cit., p. 8.

187. Petri Borelli, “Hist. et observ. phys.-med.,” 1676; cited by Chladni, op. cit., p. 20.

188. Chladni, op. cit., p. 14; see also Gilbert’s Annalen, vol. xxix, p. 376.

189. Chladni, op. cit., p. 19.

190. Chladni, op. cit., p. 22.

191. See “Nature” for June 23 and July 21, 1910.

192. Merrett, “Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum,” London, 1667, p. 219.

193. “The Works of the Hon. Robert Boyle,” vol. i, p. 244, London, 1744.

194. Vol. ii, pp. 335–7, 1820.

195. Edward E. Free in Nature, Nov. 3, 1910, No. 2140, vol. lxxxv.

196. Arnaldo Faustini, “Gli Eschimesi,” Torino, 1912, p. 41.

197. Edward M. Curr, “The Australian Races,” Melbourne and London, vol. iii, p. 29.

198. Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 17 sqq.

199. Harriet Maxwell Converse, “Myths and Legends of the N. Y. State Iroquois,” edited and annotated by Arthur Caswell Parker (Ga-wa-so-wa-neh), New York State Museum Bulletin, No. 125, Albany, 1908, p. 40.

200. Adair, “History of the American Indians,” London, 1775, p. 425.

201. Frischbier, “Hexenspruch und Zauberbann,” Berlin, 1870, p. 19.

203. Hartmann, “Bilder aus Westfalen,” Osnabrück, 1871, p. 144.

204. Lund, “Om de Sydamericanske Vildes Steenöxer,” Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, Copenhagen, 1838–1839, p. 159.

205. Rath, in Globus, vol. xxvi, p. 215 (Braunschweig, 1874).

206. Koudela and Jetteles in Anthrop. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 159 (1882).

207. Quoted by Sir J. E. Tennant in Notes and Queries, vol. v, 1852, p. 121 (No. 119, Feb. 7, 1852).

208. “Les Six Voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier,” La Haye, 1718, vol. ii, p. 439; liv. iii, chap. xi.

209. Magnusen, “Om en Steenring med Runeindskrift,” Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, Copenhagen, 1838–1839, p. 133.

210. Magnusen, “Om en Steenring med Runeindskrift,” Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, Copenhagen, 1838–1839, pp. 132–134.

211. Brereton, “Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland and Ireland, 1634–1635,” Chetham Soc., London, 1844, p. 41.

212. The fossilized horny process of an extinct cuttlefish.

213. A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, 1908, p. 298; Pl. VI, fig. 2.

214. Mooney, “The Medical Mythology of Ireland,” Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xxxiv, p. 143, 1887.

215. Henderson, “Folk-lore of Northern England,” pp. 185, 186.

216. Nilsson, “The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia,” trans. by the author and ed. by Sir John Lubbock, 3d ed., London, 1868, pp. 200, 201.

217. Tournier, Bull. de la Soc. d’Anthrop., 1874, p. 386.

218. Bull. de la Soc. d’Anthrop., 1860, p. 96.

219. Morgan, “Matériaux pour l’hist. primitive,” Paris, 1885, p. 484; Verhandl. Berl. Anthrop. Ges., 1879, p. 300; Von Rosenberg, “Der Malayische Archipel,” Leipzig, 1878, p. 175.

220. Semper, “Die Philippinen,” Würzburg, 1869, p. 61.

221. Von Siebold, Jr., Verhandl. Berl. Anthrop. Ges., 1878, p. 431.

222. Sven Nilsson, “The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia,” trans. by the author and ed. by Sir John Lubbock, 3d ed., London, 1868, p. 199.

223. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, vol. x, pp. 255–259.

224. Theophrastus’s “History of Stones,” with an English version by John Hill, London, 1746, p. 73.

225. Martius, “Unterricht von der Magiæ Naturali,” Leipzig, 1717, p. 290.

226. From a fourteenth century Italian MS. translation of the treatise in the author’s library; see fol. 8, recto, col. 2; fol. 9, recto, col. 1; fol. 10, recto, col. 2; fol. 14, verso, col. 1; fol. 17, verso, col. 1; fol. 25, verso, col. 1; fol. 26, verso, col. 1; fol. 26, verso, col. 2; fol. 29, verso, col. 2.

227. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, ed. Sir Alexander Cooke, Oxford, 1830, p. 125. This edition contains reproductions of many curious woodcuts from the old German editions of Curio, published in 1559, 1568 and 1573.

228. Havard, “Histoire de l’orfévrerie,” Paris, 1896, p. 359; Olivier de la Haye, “Poème sur la grande peste de 1348,” verses 3162 sqq.

229. Francisci Indiæ, “Hygiphylus sive de febre maligna dialogus,” Veronæ, 1593, pp. 125, 126.

230. Dr. B. Jézak, “Aus dem Reiche der Edlesteine,” Prag, 1914, p. 65.

231. Kobert, “Ein Edlestein der Vorzeit,” Stuttgart, 1910, p. 36.

232. Andrea Matthiolus, “Commentaries sur Discoride,” Lyon, 1642 (written in 1565), p. 538.

233. Fühner, “Lithotherapie,” Berlin, 1902, p. 44.

234. Braunfels, “Reformation der Apptecken,” Strassburg, 1536, fol. XIV b, XX b.

235. Francisci Indiæ, “Hygiphylus, sive de febre maligna dialogus,” Veronæ, 1593.

236. Op. cit. pp. 115 sqq.

237. Op. cit., p. 116.

238. Op. cit., pp. 118–122.

239. Boyle, “On the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy,” Oxford, 1664, p. 108.

240. Johannis Wolffii, “Curiosus amuletorum scrutator,” Francofurti et Lipsiæ, 1692, p. 564.

241. J. B. Silvatici, “Controversiæ medicæ,” Francofurti, 1601, p. 223.

242. Axel Garboe, “Kunsthistoriske Studier over Ædelstene,” Kjbenhavn og Kristiania, 1915, p. 254.

243. See Axel Garboe, “Kulturhistoriske Studier over Ædelstene, med særligt Henbilk paa det 17. Aarhundrede,” Kjbenhavn og Kristiania, 1915, pp. 141 sqq.

244. U. F. B. Brückmann, “Abhandlung von Edelsteinen,” Braunschweig, 1757, pp. 4, 5 of preface.

245. John and Andrew Van Rymsdyk, “Museum Brittanicum,” 2 ed. revised and corrected by P. Boyle, London, 1791, p. 51.

246. Fernie, “Precious Stones for Curative Wear,” Bristol, 1907, p. 256.

247. Von Hovorka and Kronfeld, “Vergleichende Volksmedizin,” Stuttgart, 1908, vol. i, p. 355. Communication of Dr. Christof Hartungen, Jr.

248. Damigeron, “De lapidibus,” ed. Abel, Berol., 1881, p. 177.

249. Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvi, cap. 54.

250. Orphei, “Lithica,” ed. Abel, Berol., 1881, vs. 610 sqq.

251. Pselli, “De lapidum virtutibus,” ed. Bemond, Lug. Bat., 1745, p. 10.

252. Konrad von Megenberg’s fourteenth century version, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 436.

253. Andreæ Baccii, “De Gemmis et Lapidibus Pretiosis” (Latin version by Wolfgang Gabelchover of the Italian original), Francofurti, 1603, pp. 100, 101, Note of Gabelchover.

254. Johannis Braunii, “De Vestitu Sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amstelodami, 1680, pp. 672–3.

255. Belucci, “Catalogue de l’Exposition de la Société d’Anthropologie” (Ex. de 1900), pp. 278–279.

256. Severus Sammonicus, “Preceptes médicaux,” text and trans. by L. Baudet, Paris, 1845, pp. 76, 77.

257. Gratii Falisci, “Cynegeticon”; collection des auteurs Latin, ed. Nizard, vol. xvi, Paris, 1851, p. 786, lines 401–405.

258. Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien”; Naharari’s “Rajanighaṇṭu,” Varga XIII, Leipzig, 1882, p. 76.

259. Lémery, “Cursus Chymicus,” Latin version by De Rebecque, Geneva, 1681, p. 338.

260. Johannes Wittichius, “Bericht von den wunderbaren Bezoardischen Steinen,” Leipzig, 1589, p. 56, cited in Axel Garboe’s “Kunsthistoriske Studier over Ædelstene,” Kobenhavn og Kristiania, 1915, p. 98.

261. “Histoire critique des practiques superstitieuses; par un prétre de l’Oratoire,” Paris, 1702, p. 326.

262. Hovorka and Kronfeld, “Vergleichende Volksmedizin,” Stuttgart, 1908, vol. i, p. 107.

263. Rose, “Aristoteles De lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitsch. für D. Alt., New Series, vol. vi, pp. 378, 379.

264. Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien”; Naharari’s “Rajanighaṇṭu,” Varga XIII, Leipzig, 1882, p. 80.

265. “Oriental Accounts of the Precious Minerals,” trans. by Raja Kalikishan, with remarks by James Prinsep; Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, vol. i, Calcutta, p. 354.

266. See Pinder, “De adamante,” Berolini, 1829, p. 66.

267. Johannis Braunii, “De Vestitu Sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amstelodami, 1680, p. 659.

268. Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien”; Naharari’s “Rajanighaṇṭu,” Varga XIII, Leipzig, 1882, p. 76.

269. The emerald of Mexico was evidently the jade or the piedra del hijada.

270. Gabriel Colin, “Avenzoar, sa vie et ses œuvres,” dissertation for doctorate in Univ. of Paris, 1911, pp. 164, 165.

271. Claudii Galeni, “Opera omnia,” ed. Kühn, Lipsiæ, 1826, vol. xii, pp. 195, 196; De simplic. med., lib. vii, cap. 2.

272. Plinii, “Historia Naturalis,” lib. xxxvi, cap. 38.

273. “Lithica,” lines 636 sqq.

274. Avicennæ, “Liber canonis,” Basileæ, 1556.

275. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 965.

276. Monardes, “Delle cose che vengono portate dall’Indie Occidentali,” Venetia, 1575, Bk. II, chap. XIV, p. 46.

277. T’ang Jung-tso, “Yü-shuo” (a discourse on jade), trans. by Stephen W. Bushell; Investigations and Studies in Jade, The Bishop Collection, New York, 1900, pp. 329, 330.

278. Jacobi Wolff, “Curiosus amuletorum scrutator,” Francofurti et Lipsiæ, 1692, pp. 218, 219; citing principally, Bartholini, “De lapide nephritico.”

279. Axel Garboe, “Kulturhistoriske Studier over Ædelstene, med særligt Henblik paa det 17. Aarhundrede,” Kobenhavn og Kristiania, 1915, pp. 204, 205; citing Caspar Bertholini, “De lapide nephritico opusculum,” 1628.

280. Johannes de Laet, “De gemmis et lapidibus libri duo,” Lugduni Batavorum [1647], p. 84.

281. “Sammlung von Natur und Medicin-wie auch hierzu gehörigen Kunst- und Litaratur-Geschichten,” Breslau, 1726, p. 262.

282. Cleandro Arnobio, “Tesoro delle Gioie,” Venetia, 1602, pp. 139–141.

283. “Les Lapidaires,” etc., F. de Mély, vol. i, Les lapidaires chinois, Paris, 1896, p. 178.

284. Martius, “Beiträge zur Ethnographic und Sprachkunde Amerika’s zumal Braziliens,” Leipzig, 1867, vol. i, p. 729.

285. Grombtchewski, Berichte der Geog. Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg, vol. xv, p. 454 (1889).

286. Alexandri Tralliani, “De medicamentis,” Basileæ, 1556, p. 593.

287. Revue Archêologique, 3rd ser., vol. i, pp. 299 sqq.

288. Gesneri, “De figuris lapidum,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 113, verso.

289. “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lugd. Bat., 1636, pp. 251–3.

290. Bellucci, “Il feticismo primitivo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 87–90.

291. Claudii Galeni, “Opera omnia,” ed. Kühn, Lipsiæ, 1826, vol. xii, p. 207; De simplic. med., lib. vii, cap. 2.

292. Nicandri, “Theriaka,” Parisiis, 1557, p. 2.

293. Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvi, cap. 34.

294. Bartholomæi Anglici, “De proprietatibus rerum,” London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495, lib. xvi, cap. 48; De gagate.

295. Johannis Baptistæ Portæ “Phytognomica,” Francofurti, 1591, pp. 170, 171.

296. Ibn el Beithar, “Traité des simples;” French trans. of L. Leclerc in “Notices et Extraits de MSS. de la Bib. Nat.,” etc., vol. xxiii, Pt. 5, Paris, 1877, pp. 418, 419.

297. “Der Römisch Kaiserlichen Akademie der Naturforscher ... Abhandlung, Siebenter Theil,” Nürnberg, 1759, p. 90.

298. Erman, “Zaubersprüche für Mutter und Kind,” Philosophische und Historische Abhandlungen der König. Pr. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, 1901, Berlin, p. 9.

299. “Papyrus Ebers, Die Maase und das Kapitel über die Augenkrankheiten,” by Georg Ebers. In the Abhandl. d. phil. hist. Klasse der Königl. sächs. Gesell. d. Wissenschaften, vol. xi, Leip., 1890, p. 318.

300. Dioscorides, “De materia medica,” lib. v, cap. 106.

301. Braunfels, “Von Edelsteinen,” Strassburg, 1536, fol. xlviii, a.

302. De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 264, lib. ii, cap. 113.

303. Ibid., loc. cit.

304. Höfler, “Volksmedizin und Aberglaube,” München, 1893, pp. 38, 39.

305. Konrad von Megenberg “Das Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 452.

306. Dugdale, “Monasticon Anglicanum,” London, 1819, vol. ii, pp. 184, 185; also extract from Cotton MS., Nero D vii, on p. 217.

308. Thomas Wright, “On Antiquarian Researches in the Middle Ages,” in Archæologia, vol. xxx, London, 1844, pp. 444–446; cut on page 444.

309. Collin de Plancy, “Dictionnaire Infernal,” Bruxelles, 1845, p. 415.

310. Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 10.

311. Andreæ Bacii, “De gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis” (Latin translation by Wolfgang Gabelchover of Italian original), Francofurti, 1603, p. 103.

312. Wilson, “The Three Ladies of London,” 1584. The three female characters are symbolical or allegorical and are named respectively, Lucre, Love, and Conscience.

313. From MS. of Borch’s lectures of 1685, in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, Thottske Collection, 744; cited in Axel Garboe’s “Kulturhistoriske Studier over Ædelstene,” Kobenhavn og Kristiania, 1915, p. 215.

314. “Der Römisch Kaiserlichen Akademie der Naturforscher ... Abhandlungen, Siebenter Theil,” Nürnberg, 1759, pp. 162, 163.

315. Valmont de Bomare, “Dictionnaire raisonné universel,” Paris, 1775, vol. iii, p. 118.

316. Walsh, “Curiosities of Popular Customs,” Philadelphia, 1911, p. 624.

317. MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” Edinburgh, 1911, p. 332.

318. Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien”; Naharari’s “Rajanighaṇṭu,” Varga XIII, Leipzig, 1882, p. 83.

319. Johannis Braunii, “De vestitu sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amstelodami, 1680, p. 659; citing pseudo-Dioscorides.

320. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 972.

321. Andræ Baccii, “De gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis,” Francofurti, 1603, p. 68. Note of Gabelchover to his Latin version of the original Italian.

322. Frederici Jacobi Schallingi, “ΟΦΘΑΛΜΙΑ sive disquisitio hermetico-galenica de natura oculorum,” Erffurdt, 1615, p. 125.

323. Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien”; Naharari’s “Rajanighaṇṭu,” Varga XIII, Leipzig, 1882, p. 79.

324. See Chapter II, pp. 106–116.

325. Anselmi Bœtii de Boodt, “Gemmarum historia,” Hanoviæ, 1609, p. 52.

326. Rose, “Aristoteles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” Zeitschr. für d. Alt., New Series, vol. vi, 1875, pp. 373, 374.

327. Petra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, p. 370.