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Agricultural School, which fully repaid the effort.” “The 
buildings,” she says, “are over very extensive grounds, where 
all subjects relating to agriculture are taught. In asking the 
usual question, if ladies would be admitted, the reply was, ‘ Of 
course, but they must study general agriculture, and could not 
come for only one branch.’ The gentlemen in the laboratory, 
also the servants, were extremely courteous and gave me a 
warm welcome, at the same time showing me over the rooms.” 
Through the kindness of Professor Steenstrup, she was per¬ 
mitted to visit the University Laboratory, where he thought 
ladies “had even more opportunities than in Sweden.” She 
found many of the students working on elementary chemistry, 
qualitative analysis, and the preparation of organic compounds, 
while for quantitative work they went to the Polytechnic School. 
“Lady-students are admitted on equal terms with the men, 
and the examinations are open to them. They receive their 
diplomas. Only in law and theology they cannot receive a di¬ 
ploma, for they cannot practice those professions, but they study 
both branches if they desire to do so.” She found that lady- 
students were also admitted at the Polytechnical Laboratory 
under the direction of Dr. S. M. Jörgensen, and that several 
had studied there though “not with a view to practical applica¬ 
tion of their knowledge.” She was delighted with the Carls¬ 
berg Laboratory, which had been founded by a Herre Jacobsen, 
but after his death, in 1878, had come under the special patron¬ 
age of the King. Professor Hansen, the director, “a noble 
specimen of a gentleman, thoroughly courteous,” welcomed 
her “as the first lady who had ever visited his laboratory on a 
scientific mission, and he expressed his admiration and grati¬ 
fication.” He told her that “his laboratory was first for 
the acquisition of scientific truths, secondly for imparting 
knowledge, and that students sufficiently advanced were free 
to come, but they must be acquainted with some chemistry 
and botany, since those subjects were not taught element¬ 
arily.” 
Dr. Hansen had been cultivating many specimens of yeast- 
ferments, and had determined which species of yeast gave the 
best beers. Although he had not then found time to publish 
