Note 1 — PREFACE

The languages of the Andaman Islands are chiefly of interest as affording material for the study of comparative grammar and the psychology of language. I had hoped to be able to make some use of the large mass of linguistic material collected by Mr E. H. Man and arranged by Sir Richard Temple, which the latter was so kind as to permit me to examine. Mr Man, however, expressed the intention of publishing that material himself. Therefore, rather than delay longer, I began the publication of my own linguistic studies in a series of papers in the journal Anthropos, of which, however, only the first had appeared when the outbreak of war interrupted them1. I cannot say when the publication of these notes will be resumed.