During the first half of our century propo sals were several times made, particularly from the committees appointed on the occasion of changes of commandants of the castle to arrange the collection on a more expedient plan and especially to observe the chronological order more strictly than hitherto had been the case. In this the famous antiquarian, Mr. Thomsen, to whom all our Museums owe so much, had a principal share. Nor shall it in this place be forgotten, that the Collection in the Com mandant of Rosenborg, Colonel-lieutenant Som mer, who died in the year 1851, had an in spector, who united great knowledge with a lively interest for its improvement. But yet it was a natural consequence, that a collection.

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