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stock-language for this rclationsliip : but he is my hrother through this undo — my 

 brother in a particular way. The son of this collateral brother is my nephew, and 

 the son of the latter is my grandson in the same peculiar sense, since these terms 

 express the relationship which comes back to Ego. But for the qualification here 

 placed upon the terms for brother, nephew, and grandson, the mode of classification 

 would be identical with one of the Asiatic forms hereafter to be presented. How 

 the Polish made such a wide departure from the primitive descriptive method is a 

 suggestive question. 



The following diagram wiU make more familiar the lineal and first three collateral 

 lines on the father's side ; — 



LINEAL LINE. 



3d (Collateral, Male 



U 1 Zimny Dziadek 



g ) ZimnryStry] 



" Etryjcczny Br»l 



Having no term for great uncle, my grandfather's brother is my grandfather ; 

 but to distinguish him from the real ancestor, and to express, at the same time, the 

 difference in the relationship, the word, zlimiij = cold, is prefixed, which qualification 

 is continued to each of his descendants. This gives for the series, in the third 

 collateral, as shown in the diagram, coM grandfather, cold paternal uncle, hrother 

 through cold imternal imcle, nephew through cold p)nternal uncle, and grandson 

 through cold paternal uncle. For a further knowledge of this interesting system 

 reference is made to the Table. 



2. SlovaJdan or Bohemian. — The Bohemian schedide seems to have been imper- 

 fectly filled in consequence of following a variant translation of the questions from 

 English into German, by means of which the learned Professor it woidd seem was 

 misled in all the branches of the second collateral line. In this line the most re- 

 markable features of the Slovakian system appear. It exhibits the nomenclature, 

 and some portion of each line in agreement with the Polish or Russian, and it is 

 given entire in the Table as furnished, as it is at least possible that it may be correct. 

 Since the Bohemians and Poles are of the western Slavonic branch, and the Bulga- 

 rians and Russians of the eastern, the forms of consanguinity that now prevail in these 



6 December, 1868. 



