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heartily, like a loving father, wlien things went wrong; he would meet us with 

 encouraging satisfaction when he was pleased. He rejoiced at every step of pro- 

 gress we made, and was kindly indulgent to our faults. 

 Therefore his loss is doubly great. 



Therefore it is with deep sorrow that I bring him on behalf of the 

 staff of the museum this last farewell — with deep sorrow that our mutual 

 work, by law of nature must now be ended — but also with warm and hearty 

 thanks for all he has been to us during the years we worked together." 



Amtmand Worsøe, in presenting an oak wreath from the leper 

 institutions, made a fine speech full of sympathy and warmth: 



"In deepest reverence, and with the feeling of my own insignificance in 

 comparison to the greatness of the man who has been tåken from us, 

 I beg to speak a few words on behalf] of the hospitals to which his energy 

 and his whole life was in the first instance devoted. From the officials of the 

 hospitals and all their inmates I bring him now a farewell greeting, as I lay 

 this wreath on his cnffin. The wreath was made from the oak trees in the 

 garden he loved so dearly; it was made by the hands of those who saw in 

 him a loving father, the zealous, skillful, sensible doctor and the faithful friend. 

 They all feel what they have lost inhim; they are all mourning at the thought 

 of him who has left them. I now bring on their behalf thanks for what he has 

 done; his memory can never perish; I speak to him their words of gratitude 

 and farewell. May he now vest in peace." 



Stortingsman d Chr. Michelsen brought a wreath and the thanks 

 of the Bergen representatives at the storting, and lastly wreaths 

 were laid down from the "Fishery Society", from the "Kunstindustri- 

 museet", from the "Nyttige Selskab", the "Nationale scene", "Ber- 

 gens Venstreforening", and from Bergen's "Liberale Forening". Fi- 

 nally the casting earth on the coffin was performed; the coffin was 

 borne to the hearse by cloctors and the museum ofticials, and followed 

 by a long procession of mourners, a band playing the funeral march 

 ol Chopin, through dense masses of people it was brought to the 

 fortress quay, while everywhere flags were half mast high. Here 

 the long procession of citizens of the town he had loved so much 

 took a last farewell of him, and the coffin was brought on board. 



His ashes were carried back to Bergen and placed in the 

 pedestal that bears his bust in the vestibule of the museum. 



We should have to search long, in the towns of our country, 

 to fincl a man who in such a disinteressed and energetic manner 

 worked for the advancement of public undertakings, and it is cer- 

 tainly very rare that one single man has set such a deep mark on 

 the whole intellectual life of a town, as doctor Danielssen has 

 done to such a high degree in Bergen. 



