653. W. L. Hildburgh, “Further Notes on Spanish Amulets,” in Folk Lore, vol. xxiv, No. 1, p. 66, March 31, 1913; one of those amulets is shown in Plate I, fig. 4, p. 64.

654. S. Weissenberg, “Südrussische Amulette,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1897, pp. 367–369.

655. From Jewellers’ Circular Weekly, Feb. 5, 1913, p. 153.

656. A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, p. 295, Plate V, fig. 1.

657. See A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, 1904, pp. 288–303; citing Bratly, “The Power of Gems and Charms,” London, 1907.

658. A, E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, p. 303.

659. St. Louis Democrat, 1905.

660. See the writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913, p. 125; also pp. 68, 96.

661. Wilhelmus Parisiensis, quoted in Pancirollus, “History of Many Memorable Things,” London, 1715, vol. i, p. 42.

662. Benvenuto Cellini, “Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell’ oreficeria,” etc., Fiorenzi, Valenti Panizzi & Marco Peri, 1568, fol. 10.

663. Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, pp. 83, 84.

664. Berthelot, “Collection des anciens alchemistes grecs,” Paris, 1888, 1889, vol. i, p. 9 of text.

665. Roth, “Great Benin, Its Customs, Art and Horrors,” Halifax, England, 1903, p. 95.

666. See Wilt’s “History of India,” vol. ii, p. 197. Cited in Lean’s Collectanea, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 641.

667. C. G. Jentsch, “Dissertatio physico-historica de gemmis,” Lipaiæ, 1706, p. 19. See also the present writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913, p. 41.

668. Ulloa’s Voyage to South America, trans. of John Adams, in Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, vol. xiv, London, 1813, p. 546.

669. Pocock’s “Travels in Egypt,” Pinkerton’s “Voyages and Travels,” vol. xv, London, 1814, p. 238.

670. See Warren K. Moorehead, “Hematite Implements of the United States,” Bulletin VI of the Department of Archæology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Andover, 1912.

671. Ibid., p. 81, Fig. 41.

672. Ibid., p. 91, Fig. 47.

673. Note on jade copied from the Tûzuk-i-Jâhangiri, or memoirs of Jahangir, trans. by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 146; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.

674. See The Morgan-Whitney Collection of Chinese Jades and other Hard Stones, donated to the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, City Park, New Orleans, 1914, p. 32; plate opp. p. 33.

675. Communicated by Dr. O. C. Farrington.

676. See in praise of the moonstone the poem autographed for this work by the poet, Edward Forrester Sutton.

677. Petri Servii, “Dissertatio de unguento armario,” Romæ, 1643, p. 43.

678. Johann August Donndorf, “Natur und Kunst,” Leipzig, 1790, vol. ii, p. 497.

679. Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Chicago, 1913, p. 50, vol. xiii, No. 1, of Anthropological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; citing a translation by MM. Chavannes and Pelliot entitled: “Un traité manichéen retrouvé en Chine,” pub. in Journal Asiatique, 1912.

680. “Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,” trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, p. 96.

681. “Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,” trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, pp. 97, 98.

682. See Hakluyt, “The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation,” London, 1589.

683. H. Lyster Jameson, in “Nature,” Oct. 7, 1912.

684. See “Nature,” Oct. 24, 1912, p. 220.

685. Rumphius, “D’Amboinische Rariteitskamer,” Amsterdam, 1741, p. 62.

686. Schiller’s “Werke,” ed. by R. Boxberger, vol. iv, Berlin and Stuttgart, n. d., pp. 179, 180, note; from a communication to the editor by Dr. R. Köhler of Weimar, in illustration of the following lines of Schiller’s “Don Karlos,” Act II, Sc. 8:

Dem grossen Kaufmann gleich
Der, ungerührt von des Rialto’s Gold,
Und Königen zum Schimpfe, seine Perle
Dem reichen Meere wiedergab, zu stoltz
Sie unter ihrem Werte loszuschlagen.

687. G. W. Freytag, “Arabum proverbia,” Bonnæ ad Rhenam, 1843, vol. iii, Pt. 1, p. 495.

688. Helvetius, “De l’esprit,” vol. ii, p. 17.

689. Johannis Braunii, “De Vestitu Sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amatelodami, 1680, p. 683.

690. From a XIII century MS. of his work, “De Proprietatibus Rerum,” fol. clxi, recto and verso. This vellum MS. was originally in the possession of the Carthusian Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Dijon. Now the property of I. Martini of New York.

691. Leopold Claremont, “Singhalese Gems,” in The Jeweler and Metalworker, pp. 1936a–1936g, December 15, 1913.

692. Abridgment by Von Hammer in the “Fundgruben des Orients,” Wien, 1818, vol. vi.

693. Ibid., p. 129.

694. Rose, “Aristoteles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitschr. für Deutsches Altertum, New Series, vol. vi, p. 386.

695. Aristophanes, “Clouds,” lines 768 sqq.

696. A. R. Tutton, in Society of Arts, London.

697. Chalfant, “Early Chinese Writing,” Mem. of Carnegie Museum, vol. iv, No. 1, Pittsburgh, 1906, Pl. VI, No. 75.

698. De Mély, “Les lapidaires chinois,” Paris, 1896, p. lxiv.

699. Lacroix, “Sur le travail de la pierre polie dans le Haut-Oubangi”; La Géographie, bulletin of the Société de Géographie, Paris, Oct. 15, 1909, pp. 201–206; figures.

700. “Sur le travail de la pierre polie dans le Haut-Oubanghi,” Comptes Rendus de l’Acad. d. Sc., vol. cxlviii, 1909, p. 1725.

701. Giglioli, “Materiale per lo studio della Età della Pietra,” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, p. 85, Firenze, 1901.

702. Communication from Taw Sein Ko.

703. Archæologia, vol. xxvii, pp. 175, 207. London, 1838.

704. “A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese,” trans. by Henry E. Staney, London, 1866, p. 208; Hakluyt Soc. Pub., vol. xxxv.

705. Theophrasti, “De lapidibus (Peri lithôn),” ed. by John Hill, London, 1746; cap. 31.

706. Garcias ab Orta, “Aromatum historia” (Lat. version by Clusius), Antverpiæ, 1579, lib. i, p. 175.

707. Finot, “Les lapidaires indiens,” Paris, 1896, p. 39, from the “Ratnaparikha” of Buddhabhatta.

708. Ribeiro’s “History of Ceylon,” tr. by P. E. Pieris, Galle, n. d., Pt. II, p. 317.

709. Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam lectu digna,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 329.

710. Eilhard Wiedmann, “Ueber den Wert von Edelsteinen bei den Muslimen,” in “Der Islam,” vol. ii, 1911, pp. 347 sqq.

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

712. J. H. Collins, “The History of a Remarkable Gem. The Maxwell-Stuart Topaz.” Mineralogical Magazine No. 13, 1879.

713. Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East.” Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1, Chicago, July, 1913, pp. 5, 8.

714. The Tûzuk-i-Jâhangîrî, or memoirs of Jahangir, trans. by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 238; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.

715. M. Tullii Ciceronis, “In Verrem,” lib. iv, Oratio nona, cap. 27.

716. Marshall H. Saville in the American Anthropologist, vol. xv, No. 3, July-September, 1913.

717. R. Campbell, “The London Tradesman,” London, 1747, p. 143.


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