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of dairy products, should be mentioned as specially pre-eminent. Fur¬ 
ther, we have a very extensive experimental laboratory for agriculture, 
and a large serum laboratory equipped in accordance with the very 
latest scientific principles, which two institutions more especially mark 
the connection between science and practical life. 
The instruction and scientific experimental work are in the hands 
of a staff of forty professors, lecturers, and assistants, in conjunc¬ 
tion with some fifty scientific collaborators. This staff includes a num¬ 
ber of eminent scientists. Thus in the College laboratory for plant 
physiology, Professor W. Johannsen, who is now attached to the Uni¬ 
versity, laid the foundation of and finished his work on heredity. B. 
Bang, a pioneer in the campaign against tuberculosis, and C. O. Jen¬ 
sen, who did fundamental work on infectious diseases and cancer, are 
well known all over the world. 
At present the College is in a state of transition and extension. 
Buildings and improvements are being carried out everywhere. The 
soul of this comprehensive work is the energetic director of the college. 
Professor Ellinger. The college is now preparing to meet the increas¬ 
ing demands which will be made upon Denmark’s principal source of 
income by the prevailing high economic tension and its consequences 
in future. 
“The Plants Stand Silent Round Me” 
By Johannes Jorgensen 
Translated from the Danish by Robert Hillyer 
The plants stand silent round me, 
And the trees with light green leaves 
Where slanting sunlight scatters 
Its dust in yellow sheaves. 
Far bells ring faintly over 
The basking summerlands, 
Vast and green and breathless 
Round me the forest stands. 
Only a lonely throstle 
Trilling in yonder tree, 
In the air a smell of forests, 
In mv heart, an ecstasy. 
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