2 ESCHRICHT AND REINHARDT 



(Governor) in North Greenland/ had brought with him from Godhavn at considerable personal 

 sacrifice, and presented to the Royal Museum of Natural History at Copenhagen, having afibrded 

 materials for his researches. His results, in all essential points, agreed with those arrived at by 

 the first-named author ; but being partly founded upon some other facts, and derived from other 

 sources, they might at any rate be said to furnish some supplementary information not 

 unimportant to the researches of Mr. Eschricht. 



Both the authors soon agreed that they would best serve science by uniting their essays 

 into one common work, and thus they now place them before the society and the pubhc. The 

 investigations have been made, or at least thoroughly revised, in common between them, and 

 both the authors are thus in every respect equally responsible for the results, and the views 

 founded upon them ; but in finally committing their thoughts to writing, Mr. Eschricht has 

 principally taken upon himself the composition of the second part, while Mr. Reinhardt has 

 that of the first. 



^ The Danish establishments in Greenland constitute two " Inspectorates," the northern of which 

 (North Greenland) comprises all the factories down to Egedesminde, this factory included, while 

 Holsteinsborg, and all the still more southern places make the " Southern Inspectorate" (South 

 Greenland). 



