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expected turn to affairs. In discussions it often happened that he 

 was rftther reckless, but at the same time he could stand a sharp 

 cut without bearing any ill-will when the fight was over. 



In social intercourse Danielssen possessed unusually attractive 

 qualities; a warm kindness would shine in his clear eyes when he 

 was surrounded by a circle of friends and aequaintances, and he 

 was always in high spirits under such circumstances. 



Thus there were many who were strongly attached to the old 

 Doctor by ties of friendship, and a great number of these were by 

 far his juniors by age— indeed in later years, when death had thinned 

 the ranks of his old friends, very few of his own age remained. 

 Danielssen had the power, in an unusual clegree, of keeping his 

 mincl young and receptive, ancl in enjoying the intercourse even of 

 the youngest men. Even his last years bore no signs of the 

 exclusiveness and dryness often to be found in old men ; his 

 mincl remained wonderfully open to new thoughts ancl new im- 

 pressions, so that many a comparatively young man might have 

 enviecl him the elasticity of thought, which he always display ed. 

 But although he was nearly always kind towards his friends, and 

 on the whole, towards all who came in contact with him, and to 

 an unusual degree and in a peculiarly noble manner generous to 

 them, still he could be, when occasion required it, extremely severe, 

 and could scold and storm most energetically, when in the mood 

 for it, and when things did not go to his liking. But when the 

 storm was over and the sky clear again, things resumed their former 

 condition, and no unpleasantness remained either in his own mind 

 or in that of the offender, thanks to the gooclnes of heart which 

 prempted all his actions. 



Therefore the death of Danielssen leaves a great blank in the 

 large circle of old and young friends, as well as among those with 

 whom he came in contact officially, or in his position as the leading 

 man at the museum. It will be long before his name will die out in 

 this circle, and still longer will his memory live in the town and 

 the country to whose best men he belonged, and in the records 

 of those sciences for which he expended his energy. 



V. 



As a matter of course, a man of Danielssen's wicle-spreading 

 activity must have been the subject of countless distinctions. In 

 1868 at the Jubilee fete of the University of Lund, he received the 



