Transcriber’s Notes
The original language has been retained,. including inconsistent spelling and hyphenation, except as listed below. Accents and diacriticals in French or German words and names have not been corrected, unless listed below.
Depending on the hard- and software used to read this text and their settings, not all elements may display as intended.
Footnotes numbers 305/306 and 321/322 are each referenced twice on the same page in the source document.
Index of names: there are no pages xi or xii. Several entries have been moved to be in alphabetical order.
Page 337, footnote 300, pp. 531-355: as printed; should possibly be 351-355 or 531-535.
Page 515, Rue des Veuves: possibly an error for Allée des Veuves as elsewhere.
Page 575, professional female prisoners: possibly an error for professional female poisoners.
Page 771, entry Kaliske: possibly an error for Kolisko.
Page 773, entry Ludwig, Philipp, there is no page number in the source document; this entry is possibly a reference to Louis Philippe.
Page 783, entry Letter: the reason for the referral to Condom is not clear.
Page 785, entry Onanism, a cause of sexual exhibitionism: no page numbers listed. Entry Obscenity: there is no page 794; the concept is defined and discussed in Chapter XXX (page 729 et seq.).
Page 787, entry Queue: there is no entry Plait, the link goes to Plait-cutters.
Page 788, entry Selection, natural: there is no entry Natural selection.
Changes made
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the chapter to which they belong, and have been numbered sequntially. References to footnotes have been re-numbered according to the footnote numbering in this text.
Minor obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently. Vossiche and Vossische Zeitung have been standardised to Vossische Zeitung.
The Errata have already been included in the text.
Page 3 and 4: Schopenhaur changed to Schopenhauer (3x)
Page 32:Säkkingen changed to Säckingen
Page 110: Kaufeuren changed to Kaufbeuren
Page 151: Cléo de Merode changed to Cléo de Mérode
Page 188, footnote 155: Die Umschan changed to Die Umschau
Page 220: opening quote mark added before Divorce is not ...
Page 268: Sohney changed to Sohnrey
Page 292, footnote 237: opening bracket added before woman
Page 330: Oda Oldberg changed to Oda Olberg (2x)
Page 411: Prosner changed to Posner
Page 430: Trelat changed to Trélat
Page 436, closing bracket added after Lyons, 1550
Page 443, closing bracket added after glans penis
Page 467, footnote 473: Natur und Volkerkunde changed to Natur- und Volkerkunde
Page 477, footnote 462: Elberfield changed to Elberfeld
Page 480: Friedlander changed to Friedländer
Page 533: Krehls changed to Krehl
Page 584: Another prostitute reports: considered part of the body text, not of the surrounding quotes
Page 646, footnote 654: opening bracket added after à l’Homme
Page 654: closing quote mark inserted after ... stimulated imagination
Page 677: schmachet changed to schmachtet
Page 767: page number 863 changed to 683 (entry von Basedow)
Page 779: page number 889 changed to 689 (entry Character, education of the)
Indexes: some spelling has been standardised (either in the text or in the index).