410 THOMAS THOMSEN. 
explanation improbable” — which honest admission is in perfect accord 
with the fact. 
But Mr. THALBITZER does not stop here. He goes on to say 
“it is curious to find a bone implement of precisely the same construc- 
tion, a towing or drag toggle, which is also stated to be in the Stock- 
holm Riksmuseum, namely in А. Е. NoRDENSKIOLD’s collection from 
Alaska, (the Vega Expedition)”. Once again, we are led by the lon- 
gest way to no advantage. The new result is based on a single specimen 
only, and the expression “stated to be” suggests that the Editor has 
not even seen this one himself. Had he cared to look through the 
West Greenland section of the National Museum, he would there have 
found a number of such “curiosities”? whereby the error might have been 
avoided, and Mr. THALBITZER himself spared the necessity of making 
the new admission: “The hinged toggle has thus obtained here quite 
a different use from that we know in East Greenland, but the con- 
struction of the head is also of quite a different form”. 
The only point of similarity now remaining is thus the fact that 
in both cases two pieces of bone are joined together by means of a peg 
about which they can turn; this can, however, scarcely be regarded as 
a sufficient basis upon which to determine the class to which an im- 
plement belongs. 
| CONTENTS LISTS OF THE COLLECTIONS. 
Pages 322—23 and 743—53 of the work are devoted to lists of the 
contents of some collections. The reader will naturally expect the col- 
lections in question to be those mentioned on the title-page of the book: 
as “Ethnographical collections from East Greenland, (Angmagsalik? and 
Nualik) made by С. Horm, С. Amprup and J. PETERSEN and described 
by W. THALBITZER”. This is, however not the case. Of the collection 
on which the whole work is based, to wit, Horm's, no list is given; the 
Editor of this English work refers his readers to the Danish edition of 
Hotm’s book, which according to the Editor’s own statement, is out 
1 On the title-page of this section Mr. THALBITZER writes “Angmagsalik” 
according to KLEINSCHMIDT's orthography; on the page following, however, 
(p. 321, Note 1) he asserts that “the East Greenland form of this name is 
Ammattalik or Ammattaling”. It might perhaps have been reasonable 
enough to have introduced one or other of these latter forms; it is less 
easy to realise, however, upon what grounds the Editor has, in the text of 
the work, supplanted the tradional form Angmagsalik by the term Am- 
massalik, which, according to the linguist himself, is the phonetic form of 
the word as used in the dialect of central West Greenland. 
