Note 1 — AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1884.
Gerhard Ernest Untermann translation
Ancient Society or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism, to Civilization. By Lewis H. Morgan. Henry Holt & Co. 1877. The book, printed in America, was singularly difficult to obtain in London. The author died a few years ago.