For many years Dr. Rasmussen has studied the life of the Eski- 

 mo and explored northern lands. He has made many visits to Green- 

 land and has been the leader of four of the five "Thule" expeditions, 

 named after the Thule trading station he established in North Star 

 Bay, Wolstenholme Sound, Greenland. In the first of these in 1912 

 he twice crossed northern Greenland over the inland ice and ex- 

 plored the region at the head of Danmark and Independence Fiords, 

 thus establishing a link between the explorations of the ill-fated 

 Mylius Erichsen, 1906-1908, and of Peary, 1892 (see "Report of the 

 First Thule Expedition, 1912," Meddelelser om Gronland, Vol. 51; 

 1915, and "Min Rejsedagbog, " Copenhagen, 1915). On the second 

 Thule expedition the remaining unexplored fiords on the northern 

 coast were surveyed, and our knowledge of the precise outline of 

 Greenland thus practically completed (see "Greenland by the Polar 

 Sea," London, 1921; "The Second Thule Expedition to Northern 

 Greenland, 1916-1918: Narrative of the Expedition," Geogr. Rev., 

 Vol. 8, 1919; and "Scientific Results of the Second Thule Expedition 

 to Northern Greenland, 1916-1918," ibid., Vol. 8, 1919). On the 

 fourth Thule expedition, 1919, he studied folklore among the Ang- 

 magssalik Eskimos in eastern Greenland. On the fifth Thule expedi- 

 tion (1921-1924) he went from Greenland across Arctic America 

 to the Pacific for the purpose of studying the native tribes (see 

 "Across Arctic America," New York, 1927). He is also the author 

 of "The People of the Polar North," Philadelphia, 1908, "Eskimo 

 Folk-Tales," London, 1921, and "Myter og sagn fra Gr0nland," 

 2 vols., Copenhagen, 1921-1925. 



