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ed to scour the earth. Certainly there is neither copper nor tin nor amber around these islands and peninsulas. The moulds in which celts, razors, reaping hooks, daggers and other tools were cast are made of steatite. These molds and other apparatus have raised a critical question whether the Scandinavian bronze age originated on its own soil. 

Here, the iron age antedates the Christian era, but so easily does iron yield itself to decay that we shall have to call it the golden age, so far as good specimens are concerned. The iron age continues here to the age of gunpowder or to speak more by the Museum card, in Denmark to the Coup d'Etat of 1606. The armor is shown in the Royal Artillery Museum, but you can follow the stream of Danish history through church relics and furniture. To complete the whole story of Denmark, you have only to spend a day in the old ^[[Rosenberg]] palace to follow the present dynasty to the reigning sovereign.

Of the Ethnographic Museum, celebrated during the whole century, it is only necessary to say that it was the first attempt in the world to arrange museum material by peoples. This collection is uniquely rich in East Greenland specimens, the spoils of Captain Holm. Fifty