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UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
The permanent laboratorj’’ staff consists of the chief of the laboratory, who is professor of the theory of gymnastics at the University, one scientific assistant, one clerk, and one mechanic. Further the professor has a privately engaged assistant.
The official annual budget available for laboratory purposes amounts to 4,500 Danish kroner.
As seen from the plan (Fig. 5) the laboratory occupies a part of the second floor in the northwest wing and the northwest corner of the central wing of the main building.
The equipment of the different rooms is determined by the above mentioned purposes of the laboratory. A rather large room is equipped for the students’ course, another larger room (Fig. 11) for work experiments, smaller rooms for histological research and for gas analyses. Moreover there are working-rooms for the professor and for the assistants, workshop, dark room, and cleaning room.
The corridor is partly equipped with cupboards and partly occupied by gymnastics apparatus arranged for experimental purposes.
Professor J. Lindhard is director of the Laboratory for the Theory of Gymnastics.
LABORATORY OF ZOOPHYSIOLOGY
The purpose of the Laboratory of Zoophysiology is to teach human and general physiology to students of natural history qualifying as teachers in the high schools, practical comparative physiology to students of zoology going in for a scientific career, and all branches of the science to those students who take up animal physiology as their main subject. The number of students in the first group is at present about thirty, in the second there are about two each year, while in the third there is only occasionally a single student.
For research purposes the laboratory possesses a small number of rooms equipped in a general way for any kind of work which it may be desirable to take up and special facilities along certain lines on which our activities have concentrated. These are: the gaseous exchange and respiration of man; capillary circulation; insect respiration; and the study of marine and aquatic animals in general.
The permanent staff consists of the professor, two scientific assistants, one clerk, one attendant, and a boy. There are further the professor’s private assistant, Mrs. Krogh and her assistant, and two to four mechanics in the workshop. There is room for six or eight scientific
Fig. 12.—Experimental Area, Laboratory of Zoophysiology