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Footnotes:

[1] See postea, 48 ff.

[2] The recent discovery of the inscribed bone fragments in Honan apparently adds some six hundred years to the history, as apart from the legends of China, for c. 1500 b.c. instead of c. 900 b.c. seems now our starting point. See infra, p. 450.

[3] Cf. Dr. J. T. Jehu’s Lectures before the Royal Society, 1919. It is noteworthy that whatever be the geological date of Man, the oldest true fish, as we understand the term, seems the Shark family, which, although extremely archaic, has but little altered. Next in seniority comes probably the Ceradotus; if now “merely a living fossil” and found only in Queensland, its form, hardly modified, corresponds with remains found all over the world as early as from the Trias.

[4] The urination of a mare was thought to weaken her hairs. Plutarch, De Sol., 24.