502 A JOURNEY IN BRAZIL. 
dition, without additions or improvements. The mounted 
animals, mammalia and birds, are faded ; and the fishes, 
with the exception of a few beautifully stuffed specimens 
from the Amazons, give no idea of the variety to be 
found in the Brazilian waters. A better collection might 
be made any morning in the fish-market. The Museum 
contains some very fine fossil remains from the valley of the 
San Francisco and from Ceara, but no attempt has as yet 
been made to arrange them. 
The only learned society deserving a special mention is 
the Historical and Geographical Institute. Its Transactions 
are regularly published, and form already a series of many 
volumes, full of valuable documents, chiefly relative to the 
history of South America. The meetings are held in the 
Imperial Palace of Rio, and are habitually presided over by 
his Majesty the Emperor. 
I cannot close what I have to say of instruction in 
Brazil without adding that, in a country where only half 
the nation is educated, there can be no complete intellec- 
tual progress. Where the difference of education makes 
an intelligent sympathy between men and women almost 
impossible, so that their relation is necessarily limited to 
that of the domestic affections, never raised except in some 
very exceptional cases to that of cultivated companionship, 
the development of the people as a whole must remain im- 
perfect and partial. I believe, however, that, especially in 
this direction, a rapid reform may be expected. I have heard 
so many intelligent Brazilians lament the want of suitable 
instruction for women in their schools, that I think the 
standard of education for girls will steadily be raised. Re- 
membering the antecedents of the Brazilians, their inher- 
ited notions as to what is becoming in the privacy and 
