Emil Chr. Hansen 5 Særtryk 1901-1909

HANSEN: CONSIDERATIONS ON TECHNICAL MYCOLOGY. 595 above emphasised how important it was for my researches that this laboratory had been founded when I started my career. Passing now to a consideration of technical laboratories and schools, I shall begin by- saying some words of the Carlsberg Laboratory. The ideas current abroad as to its origin and position are, generally speaking, but vague. The Carlsberg Fund was founded in 1876 by the late Mr. J. C. Jacobsen, the famous brewer of Copenhagen. His first gift to the fund was 1,000,000 kroner. Five members of the Royal Danish Scientific and Literary Society were appointed as trustees. The fund consisted, at the beginning, of two sections, viz. : one for the Carlsberg Laboratory, and another for the furtherance of different scientific aims. Later on a section for the National Historical Museum in the Frede- riksborg Castle was added, so that the fund then consisted of three sections. The aim of the laboratory is to develop a scientific ground- work for malting, brewing, and fermenting operations. It consists, as has already been said, of a chemical and a physiological department. Later on Mr. Jacobsen presented the fund with another million of kroner, and finally left his brewery, “ Old Carlsberg,” to it by will. In its constitution it was very much emphasised that the laboratory was intended as a scientific institute, and was to have nothing to do with the analyses required in the daily routine of the brewery. Mr. Jacobsen had another laboratory built for that purpose. A few years ago, Dr. Carl Jacobsen, his son, and the famous founder of the New Carlsberg Glyptotheca in Copenhagen, also presented his brewery, “New Carlsberg,” to the said fund, with the aim of furthering fine arts in Denmark. Carlsberg Laboratory is the only institute of its kind founded by the munificence of a single private individual; and is it not striking that a brewer should establish a laboratory which is of just the same value to his competitors as to himself ? For, according to the constitution, no result of practical or scientific importance must be kept secret. Ke ports of the work are given in the journal of the laboratory, published in Danish and French. Several years before the Carlsberg Laboratory was established, there were chemical laboratories connected with brewing in a few places. The “ Wissenschaftliche Station für Brauerei ” at Munich was inaugu- rated at about the same time. During the period following the year 1876 a large number of such institutions sprung up one after the other,