Note 187 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT

McLennan's Studies in Ancient History appeared in 1876, being mainly a reprint of his Primitive Marriage, published January, 1865, four years later than Bachofen's book; but "it was in the spring of 1866," he says, "that I first heard of Das Mutterrecht."—Studies, I, 319.

Morgan's League of the Iroquois was published in 1851, and in this he describes some of the essential facts connected with his theory. In 1857, he re-examined the subject and enlarged his views (Proceedings of the Am. Association for the Advancement of Science, Part II). But it was not until 1871 that his great work on Systems of Consanguinity appeared, though accepted for publication, January, 1868. This was followed by the Ancient Society, 1877, in which his theory is fully elaborated. The Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines, 1881, was originally intended as Part V of the Ancient Society.