D. C. Danielssen. 



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nider and Pennatulicler" (published by the Bergen Museum). All 

 these works are comprehensive folio volumes witli numerous splendidly 

 executed plates, and have — like the above mentioned "Bidrag til 

 Pectinibranchiernes Udviklingshistorie", and several smaller treatises 

 printed in various periodicals, and in the "Fauna littoralis Nor- 

 wegiæ". — been partly translated in foreign magazines. 



Although his joint work with Koren was terminated by the 

 death of the latter in 1885, Danielssen did not on that account 

 give up his zoological work. After this he published, besides two 

 small essays, one in "Bergen's Museums Aarsberetning", and one 

 in the "Nyt Magazin", three large volumes describing the North 

 Atlantic Expedition "Alcyonida", (with 23 plates, 1887), ,: Actinida, r 

 (with 25 plates. 1890), and "Crinofda & Echinida" (1892.). 



III. 



Danielssen. however, when raising a memorial to himself in his 

 scientific, medical and zoological, works, could be really appreciated 

 only by the scientific public. Neither his studies nor hospital work 

 brought him into close relations to the other classes of the people 

 at large: this was reserved for the third division of his labours 

 during the long periocl he was working for the Bergen Museum. 



Little is known about the origin and peculiar organization of 

 the Bergen Museum, and therefore it ought to be briefly noticed in 

 these pages. 



In 1825 county-sherift Christie issuecl a proposal to establish 

 a "Museum and cabinet of natural curiosities in Bergen". He 

 required the aid of ..patriotic men in Bergen and the Western 

 counties to form an association with the object of establishing in 

 Bergen a museum of antiquities and articles of art, and a cabinet 

 of natural history specimens from their own country". Each 

 member was to pay a yearly subscription "for the attainment of the 

 object of the Association" of 4 s. 6 d., or to give at once down not 

 less than five guineas, or a specimen worth at least that sum, or 

 to "prepare and transmit to the committee such treatises as they 

 should consider suitable for publication". 



In a month's time from the issue of this invitation, "valuable 

 gifts had been already made over for the establishing of the Bergen 

 Museum, whilst more than 80 members had joined", although very 

 few of the subscription lists that had been issued had been returned. 



