The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

142 DENMARK so splendidly well preserved, that the lurs, most likely used at the expedition of Leif Ericson, if they were still kept, though five hundred years older than the discovery of America by Columbus, would still have to be considered relatively young and new. As may be seen from the above, Denmark has, from time immemorial, enjoyed a rich culture, and in its Museum it has Clir. J. Thomsen. collected even the smallest remem- brances there-of. And it is owing to this care of its prehistoric relics that the striking division of the develop- ment of antiquity in the stone age, the bronze age and the iron age has been established by Danish scientists. It was Mr. dir. J. Thomsen (1788— 1865), a self-taught man, originally intended to become a man of busi- ness, who established this division, thus putting in order what till then was but a chaotic mass. On this ingenious basis he arranged the Museum of Northern Antiquities of Copenhagen which has become the proto-type of all similar museums of the world. What he thus founded was carried on by Mr. J. J. A. Worsacte (1821 —1885). Through his comparative method he made the study of olden time a science whose importance is now recognized widely beyond the boundaries of Denmark. Younger and able men of science continue the works of those that are no more, and the Danish nation as a whole watches with interest the great development taking place in