TRANSCRIBER’S AMENDMENTS

Transcriber’s Note:

Blank pages have been deleted.

Footnotes have been moved so as to follow the referencing paragraph.

Paragraph formatting has been made consistent.

The publisher’s inadvertent omissions of important punctuation have been corrected.

Some table headings have been replaced with keys and a key table. Some table ditto marks have been replaced with the words represented.

Repetitious front matter has been removed.