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2. Of Great Britain in Denmark.

Envoy and Minister. — Sir Henry C. Lowther, K.C.M.G. (1912).

Secretary. — Richard S. Seymour, M.V.O.

Naval Attache. — Captain H. D. R. Watson, R.N".

Military Attache.— Lievit.-Col. T. M. Bridges, D.S.O.

There are Consuls at Copenhagen, Reikjavik (Iceland), St. Thomas (West Indies), Thorshavn (Faroe Islands), Elsinore (V.C.).

Colonies,

The colonial possessions of Denmark consist of territories in Europe and America. Iceland has a local legislature and, under the constitutional law of 1903, a minister appointed by the King and residing at Reykjavik. The area and population of the colonies, and the value of their imports into and exports from Denmark alone in 1911, according to Danish returns, were : —

Colonies

Area English sq. m.

Population, 1911.

Import to Export from Denmark, 1911. Denmark, I'Jll.

Iceland Greenland West Indies

39,756

46,740

138

86,634

85,188 13,517 27,086

125,791

£

31,350

107,710

7,600

£ 269,890 33,210 25,610

Total.

146,660 328,710

The trade of Greenland is a State monopoly.

The West Indian Islands, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, are in- habited mostly by free negroes engaged in the cultivation of the sugar-cane; but the trade with Denmark, formerly considerable, has fallen off in recent years.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Denmark.

1. Official Publications.

Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. London.

Den dansk-tyske Krig, 1S64. Udgivet af Generalstahen. Kjobenhavn. 1890.

Foreign Office Reports on the Trade, &c., of Denmark. Annual. London.

Kongelig Dansk Hof og Statskalender. Annual. Kjobenhavn.

Landshagsskyrslur (iit&t[stic,a.l Reports). Annual. Rej'kjavik.

Statistisk Aarbog. Annual. Kjobenhavn.

Statistiske Meddelelser. Kjobenhavn.

Statistisk Tabelvaerk. Kjobenhavn.

Stj-'jrnartidindi (ha.^ys, Ordinances, etc.). Annual. Reykjavik.

2. Non-Official Publications.

Baedeker's Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 0th ed. Liepzig, li»10.

Baumgarlner (A.), Island und die Faroer. 3 Aufl. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1902

Body of Laws, 1670-1901. (Love og Anordninger ved Schou, (fee.)

Both, Kougeriget Danmark, en historisk-topographisk Beskrivelse. 2 voLs. Kjoben- havn, 1882-85.

Brochner (J.), Danish Life in Town and Country. London, 1903.

C^?-w<e«st'H(\V ), Dansk Statsforvaltningi det 15. Aarhundrede. Copenhagen. 1904.

Cook (T.), Guide to Norway and Denmark with Iceland and Spitzbergen, 6th ed. London, 1907.

Copenhagen and Its Environs [Danish Tourist Society publication]. London, 1898.

Danmarks Riges Historic. Kjobenhavn, 1896.

Denmark, its Medical Organisation, Hygiene and Demography. Copenhagen, 1891.

GaZZewpa (A.), The Invasion of Denmark in 1864. 2 vols. London, 1864.

Herrmann (F.), Island in Ver^jangenheit und Gegenwait. I. -II. Leipzig, 1902.