Mistakes of economic history and of philology when dealing with origins, 240. — Philology cannot be dissociated from economic history, 241. — Evidences of early importation of steel from China, 242. — Weighing machines probably introduced from China, 245. — The origin of the tartan manufacture in Central Asia. The evidence thereof in the languages of Europe, 246. — The fallacy of the Garbo wool and cloth theory of the economists, 252. — Garbo applied to another textile than woolens, 255. — Garbo parchment, 256. — Garbo identified with the goat, 258. — Garbo an expression for A 1, 259. — Fallacy of the economic theory as to the origin of the grocer, 261. — What constituted “retail” in the early Middle Ages, 262. — The relation of “retail” to “wholesale,” 264. — Analysis of the Ordinance of the Fishmongers of Amiens for this relation, 266. — The grossier more nearly a commission merchant, 267. — Genesis of the English grocer. Ordinances for weighing “goods of weight,” 271. — The grocer so called from selling “grosses,” 273. — The grocer not so called from engrossing commodities, 274. — The spicerers and grocers of Byzantium, the prototypes of the Italian and, hence, of the English spicerers and grocers, 275. — Origin of the word “spices,” 276. — Origin and meaning of the word “avoir du pois,” 277.