XVIII 



V. Garde, and this expedition carried home comparatively con- 

 siderable mineralogicai results, both Mr. H. Knutsen and Mr. 

 P. Eberlin having taken part in it as mineralogists. The coast 

 from Angmagsalik towards north-east until the region round 

 Scoresby-Sound was explored by the expeditions sent out by 

 the Carlsberg-Fund in 1 «98— 1900; but no mineralogist took 

 part in Captain G. C. Amdrup' s dangerous voyage along this 

 coast, the most inaccessible part of the whole coast. Finally 

 the regions round Scoresby-Sound and north of it have been 

 explored, partly in 1891 — 1892 by Captain C.Ryder, whose ex- 

 pedition was joined by cand. E. Bay as a mineralogist, and by 

 the Carlsberg-Fund expedition in 1900 under Captain Amdrup 

 and Mr. Hartz M. A. with the assistance of Dr. O. tordenskjold 

 as a mineralogist. 



In the above it has been attempted to give briefly a survey 

 of the long series of scientific expeditions to Greenland, which, 

 sent out by the Danish government or by private institutions 

 in Denmark, have contributed to the mineralogy of Greenland. 

 The "Commission for the Direction of the Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Exploration of Greenland", under the auspices of 

 which all the expeditions later than 1877 have been carried out, 

 has occasioned all the collected minerals to be kept in the 

 Mineralogicai Museum in Copenhagen, and, accordingly, they 

 have been at disposal during the preparation of the " Mine- 

 ralogia yroenlandica". 



It is still to be noted that these systematical explorations 

 are not the only source of the Greenland collection in our 

 museum. From different other sides, occasional presents of 

 Greenland minerals have been given to the museum, and not 

 rarely minerals of considerable interest. In this respect a 

 special benevolence has always been shown to the museum 

 by the board of directors of the Royal Greenland Company, 



