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a similar trustfulness on the part of, let us say, the 

 British Museum, would prove to be justified by results. 

 The outside circulation of this library, including that 

 of the reading-room, but excluding that of the use 

 of the ordinary reference library, amounts to about 

 10,000 volumes a year. 



Upstairs is the dairy department, where is to 

 be seen a beautiful model of a dairy given to a 

 famous man who died in 1902, Professor Segelcke, 

 who was the founder of the modern system of Danish 

 dairying. From this I was taken to the department 

 ot agricultural chemistry, which accommodates 60 

 pupils, and has a special chamber containing eight 

 sets of very fine scales, capable, I understood, of 

 weighing a grain of dust. Here, too, were the 

 students' laboratory, an experimental room, and 

 another for two lady assistants in this work. The 

 professor in charge of it, by the way, informed me 

 that at such tasks he found women to be more skilful 

 and reliable than those men who could be obtained 

 at the wage which the college can afford to pay. 



Next I saw the mineralogical collection arranged 

 for the instruction of the students, which, needless to 

 say, was excellent, and the land-surveying department, 

 filled with the appropriate instruments for the survey 

 of agricultural land. (All topographical surveys in 

 Denmark are carried out by the military authorities.) 



After these came the department of common and 

 special agriculture. Here was a remarkable series of 

 the different soils of Denmark. Each specimen of soil 

 is dug out to a depth of about 2 feet, pulverised and 

 analysed in three sections, namely, from the surface to 

 20 centimetres deep, from 20 to 40 centimetres deep, 

 and from 40 to 60 centimetres deep. 



