Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913, p. 125; also pp.
68, 96.
Footnote 661:
Wilhelmus Parisiensis, quoted in Pancirollus, “History of Many
Memorable Things,” London, 1715, vol. i, p. 42.
Footnote 662:
Benvenuto Cellini, “Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali
arti dell’ oreficeria,” etc., Fiorenzi, Valenti Panizzi & Marco Peri,
1568, fol. 10.
Footnote 663:
Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, pp. 83, 84.
Footnote 664:
Berthelot, “Collection des anciens alchemistes grecs,” Paris, 1888,
1889, vol. i, p. 9 of text.
Footnote 665:
Roth, “Great Benin, Its Customs, Art and Horrors,” Halifax, England,
1903, p. 95.
Footnote 666:
See Wilt’s “History of India,” vol. ii, p. 197. Cited in Lean’s
Collectanea, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 641.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 668:
Ulloa’s Voyage to South America, trans. of John Adams, in Pinkerton’s
Voyages and Travels, vol. xiv, London, 1813, p. 546.
Footnote 669:
Pocock’s “Travels in Egypt,” Pinkerton’s “Voyages and Travels,” vol.
xv, London, 1814, p. 238.
Footnote 670:
See Warren K. Moorehead, “Hematite Implements of the United States,”
Bulletin VI of the Department of Archæology, Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., Andover, 1912.
Footnote 671:
Ibid., p. 81, Fig. 41.
Footnote 672:
Ibid., p. 91, Fig. 47.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 675:
Communicated by Dr. O. C. Farrington.
Footnote 676:
See in praise of the moonstone the poem autographed for this work by
the poet, Edward Forrester Sutton.
Footnote 677:
Petri Servii, “Dissertatio de unguento armario,” Romæ, 1643, p. 43.
Footnote 678:
Johann August Donndorf, “Natur und Kunst,” Leipzig, 1790, vol. ii, p.
497.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 680:
“Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,”
trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, p. 96.
Footnote 681:
“Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,”
trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, pp. 97, 98.
Footnote 682:
See Hakluyt, “The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of
the English Nation,” London, 1589.
Footnote 683:
H. Lyster Jameson, in “Nature,” Oct. 7, 1912.
Footnote 684:
See “Nature,” Oct. 24, 1912, p. 220.
Footnote 685:
Rumphius, “D’Amboinische Rariteitskamer,” Amsterdam, 1741, p. 62.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 687:
G. W. Freytag, “Arabum proverbia,” Bonnæ ad Rhenam, 1843, vol. iii,
Pt. 1, p. 495.
Footnote 688:
Helvetius, “De l’esprit,” vol. ii, p. 17.
Footnote 689:
Johannis Braunii, “De Vestitu Sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amatelodami,
1680, p. 683.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 691:
Leopold Claremont, “Singhalese Gems,” in The Jeweler and Metalworker,
pp. 1936a–1936g, December 15, 1913.
Footnote 692:
Abridgment by Von Hammer in the “Fundgruben des Orients,” Wien, 1818,
vol. vi.
Footnote 693:
Ibid., p. 129.
Footnote 694:
Rose, “Aristoteles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitschr. für
Deutsches Altertum, New Series, vol. vi, p. 386.
Footnote 695:
Aristophanes, “Clouds,” lines 768 sqq.
Footnote 696:
A. R. Tutton, in Society of Arts, London.
Footnote 697:
Chalfant, “Early Chinese Writing,” Mem. of Carnegie Museum, vol. iv,
No. 1, Pittsburgh, 1906, Pl. VI, No. 75.
Footnote 698:
De Mély, “Les lapidaires chinois,” Paris, 1896, p. lxiv.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 700:
“Sur le travail de la pierre polie dans le Haut-Oubanghi,” Comptes
Rendus de l’Acad. d. Sc., vol. cxlviii, 1909, p. 1725.
Footnote 701:
Giglioli, “Materiale per lo studio della Età della Pietra,” Archivio
per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, p. 85, Firenze, 1901.
Footnote 702:
Communication from Taw Sein Ko.
Footnote 703:
Archæologia, vol. xxvii, pp. 175, 207. London, 1838.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 705:
Theophrasti, “De lapidibus (Peri lithôn),” ed. by John Hill, London,
1746; cap. 31.
Footnote 706:
Garcias ab Orta, “Aromatum historia” (Lat. version by Clusius),
Antverpiæ, 1579, lib. i, p. 175.
Footnote 707:
Finot, “Les lapidaires indiens,” Paris, 1896, p. 39, from the
“Ratnaparikha” of Buddhabhatta.
Footnote 708:
Ribeiro’s “History of Ceylon,” tr. by P. E. Pieris, Galle, n. d., Pt.
II, p. 317.
Footnote 709:
Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam lectu digna,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 329.
Footnote 710:
Eilhard Wiedmann, “Ueber den Wert von Edelsteinen bei den Muslimen,”
in “Der Islam,” vol. ii, 1911, pp. 347 sqq.
Footnote 711:
Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien; Naharari’s Rajanighantu, Varga XIII,”
Leipzig, 1882, p. 79.
Footnote 712:
J. H. Collins, “The History of a Remarkable Gem. The Maxwell-Stuart
Topaz.” Mineralogical Magazine No. 13, 1879.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 714:
The Tûzuk-i-Jâhangîrî, or memoirs of Jahangir, trans. by Alexander
Rogers, London, 1909, p. 238; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.
Footnote 715:
M. Tullii Ciceronis, “In Verrem,” lib. iv, Oratio nona, cap. 27.
Footnote 716:
Marshall H. Saville in the American Anthropologist, vol. xv, No. 3,
July-September, 1913.
Footnote 717:
R. Campbell, “The London Tradesman,” London, 1747, p. 143.
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