Danish Crown Research Articles

The 'Republic of Iceland' 1940-44: Anglo-American attitudes and influences

The Republic of Iceland was established on 17 June 1944 after centuries of foreign rule. One of the oldest parliamentary assemblies in the world, the Althing, was founded by the original settlers of this island as early as 930,1 but independence only lasted until 1262 when a royal union with Norway was formed.2 In 1380 Norway and Iceland came under the Danish crown,3 leaving the Althing with decreasing power, especially after the establishment of absolute monarchy in Denmark in 1660.4 The liberal and nationalist movements of the 1830s and 1840s found spokesmen in Iceland who demanded increased independence for their country. The Icelanders had maintained their own language and culture and never regarded their country as a part of Denmark. The first advances were achieved by the constitution of 1874, which granted legislative power to the Althing and self-government in domestic affairs, the executive power being vested in a governor (landshofdingi) responsible to the minister for Icelandic affairs in Copenhagen.s 'Home rule' was granted in 1904 and the office of governor was abolished, while an Icelandic

The Danish trade in Bengal 1777–1808. An Interim Account

Abstract On 1 August 1777 the transfer of the Asiatic Company's Indian possessions to the Danish Crown was duly signed. The principal possessions surrendered were the Company's former headquarters at Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast, the settlement at Serampore, Bengal, some smaller factories on the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, and the factories at Patna and Ballasore in Bengal.1 Under the terms of the transfer all these places, some of which had been under Danish management since the beginning of the seventeenth century, were placed under the administration of the Danish Crown. And there they remained until their final cession to the British East India Company in 1845.

Hodayot, Psalms from QumranHolm-NielsenS. Hodayot, Psalms from Qumran : Acta Theologica DanicaiiAarhusUniversitetsforlaget, 1960, 366, 50 Danish crowns

Hodayot, Psalms from QumranHolm-NielsenS. <i>Hodayot, Psalms from Qumran</i> : Acta Theologica DanicaiiAarhusUniversitetsforlaget, 1960, 366, 50 Danish crowns

PREHISTORIC MAN IN DENMARK. By Kurt Bröste, with J. B. Jørgensen, C. J. Becker and J. Brøndsted. 2 vols.; Vol. I text and tables, pp. 159; Vol. II, drawings and plates, pp. 439; Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1956. Quarto. 230 Danish Crowns. (Vol. I has 46 figures; Vol. II, 265 plates and 115 + vii tables. Vol. III will be on pathology.)

PREHISTORIC MAN IN DENMARK. By Kurt Bröste, with J. B. Jørgensen, C. J. Becker and J. Brøndsted. 2 vols.; Vol. I text and tables, pp. 159; Vol. II, drawings and plates, pp. 439; Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1956. Quarto. 230 Danish Crowns. (Vol. I has 46 figures; Vol. II, 265 plates and 115 + vii tables. Vol. III will be on pathology.) - Volume 32 Issue 127

On the Structure of the Protein Molecule

UNORTHODOXY in science should always be welcomed and given a hearing: how else would the theory of phlogiston have been relegated to limbo? Unorthodoxy, however, must be sure that its own eye is clear of beams while it is decrying the motes in the eyes of the orthodox. Troensegaard's researches in protein chemistry have now been going on for about twenty-five years. He points out, quite correctly, that to boil a protein for many hours in a fierce reagent like 20 per cent hydrochloric acid may be to destroy the very structures which the chemist is seeking. His alternative line of attack appears, however, to be even more violent. To start with, his proteins are thoroughly dried, even to the extent of storing over phosphorus pentoxide. Proteins exist naturally in aqueous surroundings, and when they are isolated from these, some 'bound water' goes with them, and only under very limited experimental conditions can it be removed without turning the native protein into something else. Troensegaard finds that if dry gelatin is dissolved in anhydrous methanol-potassium hydroxide and neutralized with ethyl acetate, the total amount will be precipitated if more dry methanol is added. He argues, therefore, that the gelatin has formed a colloidal solution ; hence there cannot have been any great splitting up of the molecule. True, but there can have been other changes, such as ring closure following the removal' of bound water from active centres in the gelatin molecule. On the Structure of the Protein Molecule A Chemical Investigation. By N. Troensegaard. Second edition. Pp. 126. (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 14 Danish crowns.

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access H. EHRENCRON-MÜLLERAnonym- og Pseudonym-Lexikon.Kobenhavn: H. Hagerup, 1940. Hæafter 1–5. Price 6 Danish crowns for each Hæafte. To be completed in about 6 Hæafter. FRANCIS F. C FRANCIS F. C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s4-XXI, Issue 1, June 1940, Pages 97–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s4-XXI.1.97 Published: 01 June 1940

International Congress of Anthropological Sciences

ABRANGEMENTS are now announced for the second International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences to be held at Copenhagen on August 1-6, in accordance with the decision taken at the first congress in London in 1934. It will be under the patronage of H.M. the King of Denmark and Iceland. The Congress will meet in seven sections, covering respectively physical anthropology, psychology, demography, ethnology, ethnography in six sub-sections according to geographical areas, sociology and religion, and linguistics and writing. Arrangements have been made for exhibitions and demonstrations in connexion with the subjects to be discussed, among them anthropological material of the Eskimo and Scandinavians of Greenland in the Middle Ages, and from the prehistoric burials of Denmark, and the skulls of Lagoa Santa, Brazil. There will be a demonstration of the relation of the ancient dwellings of Denmark and the structural systems of prehistoric times, which will take place at the Lyngby Folk Museum, where there will also be an exhibition of Danish national dances, including those of the Faroe Islands. A collection will be on view of medieval Icelandic manuscripts referring to the discovery of Greenland and Vinland, as well as the manuscript of Porno de Ayala on the Kingdom of the Incas and Peru, recently published by the Institut d'Ethnologie de Paris, and manuscripts of the Iranian Avesta. The Ethnographical Museum, which has been closed for several years for enlargement and is the oldest in Europe, having been founded in 1846, will be reopened to the public for the first time at the meeting of the Congress. At the close of the session, an excursion will be made through Denmark, on which visits will be paid to kitchen-middens, Megalithic tombs, tumuli of the bronze age, iron age fortifications, the new Viking ship recently discovered at Ladby, and other antiquities of the Middle Ages. Subscriptions (members 30 Danish crowns, associates 15 Kr.) may be addressed to the Treasurer of the Congress, Nationalmuseet, 10 Ny Vestergade, Copenhagen, K.