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Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.
(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.
(6) The following typographical error has been corrected:
ARTICLE BENGALI: "The sound of such a final a is in all three
languages the same as that of the second o in 'promote'; thus, the
Bg. bara is pronounced boro." 'second' amended from 'seccond'.
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