FOUNDATIONS OF KINSHIP MATHEMATICS（專刊甲２８）

The first paper was the outcome of joint research by Mr. Harvey and the author and was first published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, No.23 (1967). The second paper was the first publication based upon joint research Mr. Gould and the author and first appeared in the Bulletin of Visiting Scholars Association, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University, China Branch, Vol.13 (1976). They serve to ahow the foundation for the author's current mathematical study of kinship.