The Ammassalik Eskimo. 479 
nor zoologist may easily confuse both beak and claws of a large bird 
with the claws of a bearded seal or of a young bear. 
2) p. 427 ad 390. — My critie’s assertion to the effect that “it is 
the same object in both cases” is not correct. The object which he notes 
as Washington Museum No. 160.337 (i.e. No. 160337) has nothing to 
do with Neıson’s Pl. LXXIX fig. 4, but is true of that writer's Pl. 
LIV fig. 10. 
3) p. 427 ad 455. — Here I would first of all call attention to the 
remarkable admission made by the Museum official: “The remainder” 
— of the content of my illustration — “is difficult to identify”. This 
_indistinguishabie remainder is a large double bladder with accessories, 
belonging to one of the collections in his Department of the Museum. 
The same difficulty is frequently apparent in the succeeding pages, 
and would seem to suggest a certain disorder somewhere in that De- 
partment. 
Such a background is eminently calculated to emphasise the self- 
sufficiency with which the Museum official presumes elsewhere to judge 
my illustrations of objects selected by me for photographing in the 
Museum. In one case, (p. 428 ad 496, see below, under 5) he even ven- 
tures to insinuate that the specimen in question is not from the Mus- 
eum at all, despite my statement that it belongs to one of the collec- 
tions there; this for the simple reason that he himself is unable to identify 
it. The same inability to recognise Museum property is exhibited in 
Hr. THOMSEN’s comments p. 428 ad 497, p. 431 ad 584 and p. 432 
ad 611 ete. 
His confession that he is in all these cases unable to identify Mus- 
eum specimens certainly lessens our confidence in such identifications 
as he ventures to pronounce elsewhere. His observation p. 432 ad 645 
hkewise reveals a high degree of self-confidence, since he is here refer- 
ring to something which he has not seen; cf. my note infra, under (10). 
4) p. 428 ad 476. — The stone blades in the knives from South- 
ampton Island are mentioned in my book p.489 (below), cf. supra p.468. 
p. 428 ad 478 1) vide supra p. 463—64. 
ee 2592402 63: 
480 vide supra p. 462—63 
5) p. 428 ad 496. — “If preserved in the National Museum” etc. 
Here we have evidently an attempt at suggesting to the reader that 
I might have smuggled in extraneous material under the name of the 
Museum. As a matter of fact, I found these stones on one of the shelves 
in the Museum; where, may be seen from my book р. 493 (lines 4—7 
from above). Cf. also Нотм р. 40 (mid). 
6) p. 428 ad 497. — I can find neither any correction nor any- 
thing new in these observations of the Museum 
official. 
ad 502 whet stone or whetting iron? vide supra p. 463. 
