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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... sq.; 232. Languages, the historical unity of; not countenanced by scientific inquiry, '60-1, 21. all formed from monosylla-bic roots by agglutination of sylla-bles, each a self-significant word, '52-3, 126; the usual alleged dis-tinctions in languages shown to be groundless, 117-126; not neces-sarily related because they possess similar words for the same objects, as these words were probably formed independently, from natural sounds, 188, etc. Langued'Oil, its three dialects, '68-9, 352; or four, according to Littre, 353. Latham (R. G.), miscellaneous con-tributions to the ethnography of North America, '44-6, 31; on the word aipos, 85; bibliographical notices of the works on the pro-vincialisms of Holland and Fries-land, 128; contributions to the study of.the languages of Africa, 218. on the languages of the Papuan or Negrito race scattered through the Australian and other Asiatic islands, '42-4, 37: on the doctrine of the Caesura in the Greek Senarius, 129; on the evidence of a connexion between the Cimbri and the Chersonesus Cimbrica, 181; on the reciprocal pronouns and on the reciprocal power of the reflective verb, 232. Latham (R. G.) on certain additions to the vocabularies of the Caffre languages, '48-50, 10; remarks upon a vocabulary of the Bonny language, 73; on the connexion between the ideas of association and plurality as an influence in the evolution of inflexion, 79; on a vocabulary of the Cameroons language, 136; on a vocabulary of the Avekvom language, 183; on the original area of the Slavonic population, 187, 215. on certain classes in African philology, '58, 107. on certain recent additions to African philology, '55, 85-95, 185-206. on the Aorists in Ko., '52-3, 37-9; remarks on lists of personal pronouns and numerals, ...