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Agricultural School, which fully repaid the effort." "The 

 buildings," she says, "are over very extensive grounds, where 

 all subjects relating to agriculture are taught. In asking the 

 usual question, if ladies would be admitted, the reply was, ' Of 

 course, but they must study general agriculture, and could not 

 come for only one branch.' The gentlemen in the laboratory, 

 also the servants, were extremely courteous and gave me a 

 warm welcome, at the same time showing me over the rooms." 



Through the kindness of Professor Steenstrup, she was per- 

 mitted to visit the University Laboratory, where he thought 

 ladies "had even more opportunities than in Sweden." She 

 found many of the students working on elementary chemistry, 

 qualitative analysis, and the preparation of organic compounds, 

 while for quantitative work they went to the Polytechnic School. 

 "Lady-students are admitted on equal ternis with the men, 

 and the examinations are open to them. They receive their 

 diplomas. Only in law and theology they cannot receive a di- 

 ploma, for they cannot practice those professions, but they study 

 both branches if they desire to do so." She found that lady- 

 students were also admitted at the Polytechnical Laboratory 

 under the direction of Dr. S. M. Jorgensen, and that several 

 had studied there though "not with a view to practical applica- 

 tion of their knowledge." She was delighted with the Carls- 

 berg Laboratory, which had been founded by a Herre Jacobsen, 

 but after his death, in 1878, had come under the special patron- 

 age of the King. Professor Hansen, the director, "a noble 

 specimen of a gentleman, thoroughly courteous," welcomed 

 her "as the first lady who had ever visited his laboratory on a 

 scientific mission, and he expressed his admiration and grati- 

 fication." He told her that "his laboratory was first for 

 the acquisition of scientific truths, secondly for imparting 

 knowledge, and that students sufficiently advanced were free 

 to come, but they must be acquainted with some chemistry 

 and botany, since those subjects were not taught element- 

 arily." 



Dr. Hansen had been cultivating many specimens of yeast- 

 ferments, and had determined which species of yeast gave the 

 best beers. Although he had not then found time to publish 



