The Taste‐names of Primitive Peoples

I.The cautions to be obsemted in drawing conclusions f r o m primitive vocabularies.Expeii~ments in the Torres Straits. I n d o -G e m n i c taste-names. The results of inquiry and experiment in other parts of theGeneral comparison of the vocabularies denoting gustatory and other sensations.The phyloyenetic antiquity and the consequently di&cult analysis of the fused product of gustatory, tactual and emotional experience.world.1 While these pages were in the press, my friend Professor A. F. Chamberlain publisbed an interesting paper on the taste-vocabularies of American Indians (Amer.