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scientific harvest at Kangerdluarsuk and the other localities of 

 rare minerals in the nearest neighbourhood of Julianehaab, 

 known from the time of Giesecke; but it. got a special impor- 

 tance by pointing out a new locality, Narsarsuk, at a somewhat 

 greater distance from the mentioned colony, where the natives 

 found, in the following years, neptunite and other quite new 

 minerals. For the purpose of a more detailed mineralogicai 

 examination of this locality, Dr. G. Flink was sent out in 1897; 

 this mineralogist succeeded in discovering at Narsarsuk a greater 

 number of new and interesting minerals than had before been 

 found at any single place in Greenland. In the following year, 

 1898, Dr. Steenstrup revisited Disco, and in 1899 he visited the 

 district of Julianehaab and Ivigtul. In the year 1900, finally, 

 with the assistance of Mr. O. B. Böggild I made a detailed geo- 

 logical investigation of the whole region around Julianehaab and 

 Narsarsuk. 



An exceedingly rich material collected from the west-coast 

 of Greenland south of 76 x /2° N. Lat. has thus been at disposal 

 by the preparation of the "Mineralogia groenlandica". With 

 regard to the other parts of Greenland the sources of inform- 

 ation are much more scarce. From the northern Greenland 

 (the region round Cape York) the Museum of Copenhagen has 

 only a small collection of minerals sent home 1881 by the then 

 inspector of the northern colonies, Mr. S. Krarup Smith. From 

 East-Greenland the material is far richer, although it is small 

 in proportion to the enormous extent of the east-coast of the 

 country. The Danish expeditions have here explored the coast 

 all the way from Cape Farewell to 72° 30' N. Lat., but on ac- 

 count of the enormous difficulties and dangers by which the 

 journeys on the east-coast are attended, it may easily be under- 

 stood that the explorations have not been so thorough here 

 as on the west-coast. The southern part of the east-coast, 

 embracing the country from Cape Farewell to Angmagsalik, was 

 explored in 1883 — 85 by Commodore G. Holm and Captain 



