Crime conditions in Norway are similarly significant. Comparative statistics are difficult of access, but Norway's proportion of serious offences is very low. In the whole period from 1891-1895 the total number was only two hundred and sixty-one. Norway has its poor as every country has, but it has its excellent system of taking care of the poor. Thus every municipality has a Board of Guardians (fattigkommission), which consists of the parish minister, a police officer, and several men chosen by a local board. Norway keeps her criminals and takes care of her poor; she does not send them to America, as has only too often been the case in some other countries. Norway has a highly developed school system crowned by the Royal Frederik University at Christiania. It has compulsory education, its boards of inspection and its great Department of Public Instruction. It has its People's High School, its Workingmen's Colleges, and a system of secondary schools, whose curricula are still on a conservative basis. Its one University ranks with the foremost in Europe, and with it are connected various laboratories and scientific institutions, and it has a library of three hundred and fifty thousand volumes. Here too are located its Botanical Gardens, the Historical Museum, the Astronomical and Magnetic Observatory, the Meteriological Institute and the Biological Marine Station.[9] The salaries of its teachers in _Middelskole Gymnasium_, and of instructors and professors in the University, reckoned by the purchasing power of money, is approximately thirty per cent greater than that of our middle western universities. I shall also mention _The Royal Norwegian Scientific Society_ at Trondhjem, founded 1760, a similar society in Christiania, founded 1857, the _Bergen Museum_, founded 1825, with its literary and scientific collections illustrative of the life and cultural history of Western Norway, _The Norwegian National Museum_ in Christiania, founded 1894, similar, but more general in character, _The Industrial Arts Museum_,[10] and the various archives of the Kingdom. [9] This is located at Dröbak. [10] Though Norway's participation in the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 as regards number of exhibits was limited, its exhibits were acknowledged to be of very high grade, thus in its tapestries, in carved and inlaid work, in silver and enamel displays it received the highest awards. Report by Consul Fr. Waage, General Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, _Skandinaven_, June 14th, 1905.