478 WILLIAM THALBITZER. 
VI. List of “Corrections’’., 
р. 426—454. — By far the greater number of Hr. THOMSEN's cor- 
rections deal with my references to the names of the collections to which 
the various ethnographical items belong. I had noted every specimen 
in the large East Greenland case at the Museum which appeared to 
me typical of the Ammassalik culture as belonging to the “Holm coll.” 
save where I had definite information to the contrary (cf. p. 447 and 
450) since it was from Ногм’; expedition that we first learned to know 
the central home of the Ammassalik tribe. In some cases I noted “Holm (?) 
coll.” or “Holm and [or] other collections” etc. the latter where I knew 
or supposed that the specimens belonged to different collections. — 
My publication has finally served to elicit fuller information from the 
Museum inventories, and readers interested in matter of so minute 
detail — there will hardly be many — may now. consult Hr. Тном- 
SEN’s “corrections”. The importance of these is, however, somewhat 
diminished by the fact that he has in many instances been unable to 
identify the objects in question. 
A small portion of his corrections refer to my measurements of the 
specimens, some few others to the material of which the objects are made. 
We have here one assertion against another. It is but natural, how- 
ever, that an official having every facility for unlimited study at the 
Museum would be able to attain a higher degree of accuracy in various 
points of detail than a visitor less privileged in this respect. 
Some few of the corrections serve at best but to furnish supple- 
mentary information, without contradicting my description, e. g. p. 428 
ad 481 and 489. 
Finally, Hr. THOMSEN has here undertaken to correct certain prin- 
ters’ errors, especially the following: 
Page in my 
work (1914) Error. Amendment 
389, а О ‘tc boards 
476 note 6 VII VIII 
73825 8 18 
7389 1885? 1885 
73925 1789 1689 
To the remainder I append the following remarks: 
[1) p. 427 ff. in Hr. Tuomsen’s “Notes and Corrections” ad p. 389 in my 
book (1914)]. 
1) p. 427 ad 389. — “The bird in question is a polar bear”. The 
correction is very typical of Hr. Tuomsen’s critical style. The ob- 
ject to which I refer is a claw (the nail itself), but possibly a closer in- 
vestigation might be desirable, as an observer who is neither Eskimo 
