418 THOMAS THOMSEN. 
would they build, and the newer would the resulting house appear, 
while on the other hand, the shorter their journey, the earlier — and 
older — their house. 
I find some difficulty also, in accepting, as does Mr. THALBITZER, 
the resemblance between the harpoon heads of 1882 and those of 1884 
as proof that the types "had been fixed and predominant in this region 
probably for many generations”. 
In the foregoing, I have sought to point out instances of the various 
difficulties which the scientific enquirer is liable to encounter, and to 
emphasise the need of caution in the face of errors and inaccuracies 
which might otherwise prove misleading. To go through the whole of 
the work would demand a disproportionate amount of space. For further 
convenience, a list of some two hundred and fifty corrections, em- 
bracing 385 pages of the book (рр. 369—753) is given in the following, 
arranged in order of page numbers, with references to the foregoing in 
such cases as have been dealt with already. Even this list, however, 
can make no claim to completeness. 
Yet with this we might well conclude, had it not been for the 
fact that Mr. THALBITZER has endeavoured to make the National Mu- 
seum responsible for the quality of his work. An accusation of so 
serious a nature cannot be allowed to pass unrefuted. It has been 
pointed out in the foregoing, and — albeit the fact would seem obvious 
enough in itself — may here be repeated, that Mr. THALBITZER had every 
opportunity of studying the entire contents of the Museum as closely 
and as frequently as he might wish, and that he would, on application, 
have been furnished with every information obtainable from the records 
of the Museum. He has also formerly availed himself of these oppor- 
tunities, as may be seen from p. 658 of his work. It has also been shown 
(рр. 385—93) that Mr. THALBITzEr’s method of work when dealing 
with written or printed sources of information entirely resembles his 
treatment of museum material. Further proof will be afforded by a 
glance at the manner in which he handles such material when un- 
disturbed by such hindrances as he claims to have met with in the 
Museum, and at the results which he attains by such study. 
We may take, for instance, a couple of examples from his work 
on the first part of the Amprup collection’. Mr. THALBITZER had here, 
as he himself tells us, the objects in question laid out before him all 
the time on a table in one of the rooms of the Kgl. Danske Videnska- 
bernes Selskab. And as another point in his favour, we may choose 
out examples from the first chapters of the book, comprising 1) har- 
poon heads, 2) other weapon heads made of bone and 3) stone imple- 
ments. At the conclusion of these sections, the Editor himself informs 
1 Medd. om Grenl., vol. 28, р. 329 ff. (i. e. THazs. I). 
