1). C. Danielssen. 



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Harold monument in 1872, ancl at the coronation at Stockholm 

 in 1873. 



In politics he kept more closely to a small party composed 

 of Sverdrup, Daae, Sørensen, Steen, Richter, Essendrop and Krognæs, 

 which was tolerably independent of the farmers' as well as of 

 the conservative party, till 1870 — 71, when Sverdrup formed his 

 liberal opposition majority, to which the greater part of it attached 

 itself. But even that small party was not very firmly united; on 

 the subject of grants it often agreed with the economical policy of 

 the farmers, and on these occasions Danielssen often diflered from 

 his own and joined the Schweigaard party. Every grant for 

 the advancement of knowledge and science might be certain of 

 tinding in him a arclent and eloquent patron, who fully understood 

 that progress consisted quite as much in increasing the intellectual 

 welfare of the nation, as in the change of political forms, or the increase 

 of its material prosperity. Amongst the great scientific objects, the 

 grants for which were given during Danielssen's time in the Stor- 

 ting, we must not forget to particularly mention the grant for the 

 new building for the Bergen Museum and for the North- Atlantic 

 «xpedition. It had been impossible to get the committee's consent 

 to the grant for the North- Atlantic expedition, though Danielssen, 

 himself a member of the committee, had laboured hard for it. It 

 was only after a two clays' debate in the storting, when Danielssen 

 was one of the chief speakers, that the affair was carried through, 

 making it possible for the Norwegian men of science to carry out 

 a thorough investigation of the physical conclitions ancl animal 

 life of the Norway Ocean. 



But besides all this Danielssen was among the managers of 

 numerous societies for the general welfare in Bergen, and a member 

 of a great many committees. Thus he was up to 1894 member of 

 the committee for the supervision of the Asylum for Lepers, to 

 the foundation of which he had himself contributed ; also of the 

 commission of supervision and examination of the lying-in hospital 

 and of the school of midwifery in Bergen ; of the commission of 

 control for the Bergen municipal, and the Rosenberg, lunatic 

 asylums. In 1844 to 1845 he w r as one of the founders of the 

 literary society "Eorening af 22de December", of which he was 

 manager, and wmere for a number of years he clelivered popalar 

 lectures; he was one of the originators of the "Norske scene" 

 (1850), and was for a long time member and chairman of the 



