438 WILLIAM THALBITZER. 
Horst (South-West Greenland, 1880), G. у. DÜBEN (West Greenland, 1881) 
and А. Е. NORDENSKJOLD (East and West Greenland, 1873, 1883, 1885, 1896). 
I must express my heartiest thanks to the keeper of the Museum, Professor 
C. V. HARTMAN, for the effective kindness with which, in true comprehension 
of the difficulty of my research, he facilitated the study of these collections 
during my repeated visits in Stockholm. 
My thanks to the National Museum of Copenhagen cannot rise to the same 
level of heartiness. The materials contained in this Museum are undoubtedly 
the most considerable existing, for a study of the ethnography of Greenland. 
Only a part of them are said to have been set up in cases. I was acquainted 
with the contents of these cases, but only as a general visitor, when "Commis- 
sionen for Grønlands geologiske og geografiske Undersøgelser” in 1907 authori- 
sed me to publish a description of the Amdrup collection from East Greenland? in 
its "Meddelelser om Grønland”. As a natural and necessary link in carrying 
out this purpose it seemed desirable to have a new illustration and edition of 
G. Holm's collection from Ammassalik, which has lain in our National Museum 
since 1888. I directed a request therefore in 1908 to the director of the ethno- 
graphic section, Dr. SorHus MÜLLER, that I might be permitted to study the 
collections from East Greenland, and first and foremost G. Нотм’з. In the 
following year I asked to be allowed to photograph Holm’s collection”. In 
the spring of 1910 I succeeded at length in beginning the work of photograph- 
ing, which extended over 16 days. The work was carried out in front of the 
cases in the Museum, where the light conditions were not exactly good, by a 
photographer recommended by the Director and somewhat hastily owing to 
the short working hours of the Museum. I was present, of course, when all the 
photographs were taken, but obtained very little time to study the objects taken 
from the cases, as they had to be brought out and put in again each day by 
one of the assistants. 
When the work was completed, I felt no inducement to continue my studies 
at this Museum, having the distinct impression, that my visits were unwelcome. 
I regret, that such a short measure of interest and friendliness obliged me to 
renounce a fuller utilisation of the rich collections and has thus without doubt 
reduced the strength of my work. On the other hand, I have had the good for- 
tune of being able to fill up the gap to some extent by my journeys to foreign 
Museums, which the Carlsberg Fund with great liberality has supported”. 
These few passages from my book (1914, pp. 328—329) — a single 
page in a work of some seven hundred and fifty — were intended not 
only to remind the reader of the extent to which ethnographical material 
from Greenland is scattered about the world, but also to point out certain 
difficulties which I had had to encounter on coming in contact with 
the one particular Museum possessing the greatest store of such material. 
My remarks concerning the Ethnographical Department at Copenhagen 
1 “The Amdrup collection, which has been procured through the Carlsberg 
Fund Expedition to East Greenland, was at that time still in the posses- 
sion of the Carlsberg Fund, though promised to the National Museum as 
soon as its description was ended”. 
2 “Tt may be mentioned in this connection, that in 1897 already there was 
some talk of getting Holm’s collection photographed, arising out of a 
private request from the well-known ethnographer Otis Mason of the 
Washington National Museum, but the director of the Copenhagen Museum 
neglected to answer”. 
