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Labcralory. ordered and beautiful buil- j ding, in front of which a sta- j tue of J . C. Jacobsen has j been placed. The Carlsberg Laboratory \ is known all the world over j and its pioneering work has j been of the greatest impor- : tanee. : : The State Serum-Institute, on j Amager Boulevard 80—84, : started its work in the fall : 1902. I t was in stituted with : the object of enlarging the ma- : king of the Serum for dipli- : theria, which had proved able j to diminish the death-rate of : the formerly dreated diphthe- : ria. Before the treatm ents j with the serum the death-rate j of this desease was every lar- • ver, which at present is being j tested, b u t whose effects only •

The lied in 1875 by the brewer J. C. Jacobsen, forming the s ta r­ ting point for the Carlsberg Foundation (see above), in­ stituted in 1876 and being the Department A. of the Founda­ tion. The board of directors consists of three n atural scien­ tists of the management of the Foundation and one or two membres, versed in the science of brewing. The founder of the Carls­ berg Laboratory lias plainly stated his intention with the object and ways of working of the laboratory by sa y in g : »No theoretical or practical result of work of the in sti­ tution must be kept seeret«. (The laboratory originally had its rooms in the brewery of Gamle Carlsberg, but in 1897 moved to the new, well-

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