sister's son is R. It is a simple and easily intelligible nomenclature, and replaces intolerable verbiage in the description of distant kinships. My correspondents used it freely, and none of them spoke of any difficulty in understanding it. Its somewhat babyish sound is soon disregarded.
TABLE IV.-ABBREVIATIONS.
Males.
Females.
Grandfather, paternal fa fa
Grandmother, paternal
fa me
me me
me
fa si
me si
si
„
Father
maternal me fa
„
Mother
maternal
...
... fa
... fa bra
... me bro
... bro
...
...
...
...
...
Uncle, paternal
Aunt, paternal
„ maternal
„ maternal
Brother
...
Sister
...
Son ...
Nephew,
son
... ... son
Daughter ... ...
Niece, brother's
da
brother's
...
... bro son
si son
daughter ... ... bro da
Nephew, sister's son
Male first cousins :
Niece, sister's daughter
Female first cousins
i. Dau. of paternal
si da
r. Son of paternal
uncle fa bro son
uncle fa bro da
2. Son of maternal
2. Dau. of maternal
uncle me bro son
uncle me bro da
3. Son of paternal
3. Dau. of paternal
aunt fa si son
aunt fa si da
4. Son of maternal
4. Dau. of maternal
aunt me si son
aunt me si da
Those relationships that are expressed by different combinations of these letters differ specifically; therefore, in saying, in the next chapter, that each person has " roughly, on the average, one fertile relative in each and every form of specific kinship,"
