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its arrival was lodged in the National Museum at Copenhagen. It is to be 
hoped that it will not be long before we get a description of it by a competent 
hand”. 
This promised description is still to be looked forward to, and with 
the same hopes as before. When Hr. THOMSEN’S ethnographical work 
finally does appear, I venture to hope it may be borne in mind, how 
thoroughly the author has studied mine. 
Ш. “Notes and Corrections” versus 
Scientific Research-work. 
With regard to Hr. Tuomsen’s “Notes and Corrections”, I should 
be able to regard these with more respect if they were not so markedly 
redolent of the aggressive tendency before mentioned, which does not 
even draw the line at personal insinuation. The form of his attack is 
such that I have the strongest disinclination to answer it at all. I could 
expose myself wihout a tremor to the shafts of honest criticism loosed 
by a competent hand. But since becoming acquainted with the contents 
of his present paper, I can no longer trust his weapons as clean nor his 
competence as genuine. 
My departmental critic has been pleased to dilate upon what he 
terms “Mr. THALBITZERS peculiar methods of dealing with Museum 
material” (р. 417)". I have no idea as to what may be Hr. THomsEn’s 
method of dealing with Museum material. But | cannot accept his 
estimate of the various East Greenland collections in the Museum; his 
presentment of these appears to me misleading from the very commence- 
ment of his paper. 
A false impression is created at the outset by the manner in which 
Ryper’s collection from Ammassalik is referred to as if it were one 
well known to the public. Hr. THOMSEN endeavours to make this ap- 
parent by a footnote (No. 2) on p. 387, citing Medd. om Grønland vol. 17 
p. 138 ff; there is, however, here no mention whatever of the fact that 
RYDER ever made any collection at all, still less that any such was con- 
tributed by him to the Museum. Even more remarkable is the fact 
that the Museum catalogue does not contain — or did not at the time 
of my visits there —- any reference to the presence in the Museum of 
a collection from Ammassalik made by Вурев. No notices to such 
effect were hung up in the rooms, nor was there so much as a card in 
1 In the following pages, when citing Hr. Tuomsen’s paper, the page 
numbers in this will be set in italics; references to my own work, Meddel. 
om Grønl. vol. 39, 1914 in black type. 
