D. C. Danielssen. 



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thed to the museum the savings of a long life, which will, when 

 his affairs are wound up, probably amount to nearly 4500 k. 

 The capital is by the wording of his will bestowed without reserve 

 on the Bergen museum, except that the interest on 1333 £ is given 

 as annuities to the brotner and sisters of the deceased and to 

 an old maid servant. On the capital three legacies are to be 

 appointed, bearing the names of his wife and children, the interest 

 on which is to be applied in the way appointed by the managers 

 of the Bergen Museum, for scientific research, with the object of 

 extending our knowledge of the animal and vegetable life of Norway, 

 especially in a histological and physiological direction, on condition 

 that the result of these investigations, in the form of scientific 

 papers, is published as issued by the Bergen Museum. Thus the 

 capital of the Museum has risen to about 13,500 £, or, in other 

 words, the Museum is sure of being able to dispose of a funded 

 annuity of at least 500 £ for scientific investigation. 1 ) 



IV. 



Dr. Danielssen's work in the service of the public embraced, as 

 we have seen, a rich and manysicled sphere of usefulness and activity. 

 He has, in the capacity of physician of the Lungegaarcl Hospital, 

 assisted most materially in the struggle with a disease, which fifty 

 years ago was a national plague in large districts, hut which we 

 may now have some hope of seeing disappear from the country 

 before very long, and he has given invaluable help to the scientific 

 knowledge of the most mysterious of the scourges of humanity. 

 And along with this, his wonderful capacity for work has allowed 

 him to give important contributions to the knowledge of the animal 

 life on the coast, which contributions have had a large share in 

 bringing about the result that our country's coasts are now "better 

 explored than those of England", as has been said an by English 

 reviewer of one of his last works. Mor eo ver, he has by his 

 persevering and gratuitous labours transformed the Bergen Museum, 

 from an unpretending private institution, into a scientific centre for 

 the whole of Western Norway, and into an institution which ranks 

 with the finest collections in Europe, and has a reputed name also 

 beyond the limits of this hemisphere. 



J ) Besides this capital. the museum has also a special fund for increasing 

 the Library, established by grants from the ..Samlag"', i. e. the municipal 

 company for the retail of alcoholic liquors. 



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