Mag. sc. Søren Jensen had got the task of giving a de- 

 scription of the observations of mammals, made on Amdrup's two 

 journeys to East Greenland, in 1898 — 99, and in the smnmer of 

 1900. He had himself taken part in the second journey, as the 

 zoologist of the expedition; the observations from the first journey, 

 put together by cand. med. Knud Poulsen, were left to his 

 disposal. He executed the most essential part of the work, but 

 death prohibited his fulfШing it. His manuscript on the terrestrial 

 mammals had mainly got its final form, and is rendered here with 

 scarcely any alterations. On the polar bear there was nothing but 

 a rough sketch; its content is given here in almost his ovm words; 

 but some things that had to be considered more immediately as 

 preliminary studies have been left out. On seals and whales there 

 was nothing but spread notes in his diary from the journey, among 

 these, communications given him by Johan Petersen, commercial 

 manager in Angmagsalik; below is given what has been found, in 

 this direction, among K. Poulsen's and S. Jensen's notes. Some 

 supplementary particulars from the physician H. Deichmann, the 

 fellow traveller of S. Jensen, have been added. The mammals that 

 have been brought home from these two journeys to East Green- 

 land, are mentioned in Conspectus Faunae Groeulandicae, Medd. om 

 Grønland, Hefte XXI. — The relations of Søren Jensen have wished 

 it to be said that he was not himself content ^vith his work on 

 the mammals; the subject was a httle unfamihar to him. 



Herluf Winge. 



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