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Berlin, to which the pupils of the Institute of Arts have 

 access. There are good collections of physical and chemi- 

 cal apparatus, of minerals, of geological and technological 

 specimens. 



The instruction is afforded in part by the lectures of 

 the professors, aided by text books specially intended for 

 the school, and in part by the interrogations of the pro- 

 fessors and of the assistants and repeaters. At the close 

 of the first year there is an examination to determine 

 which of the pupils shall be permitted to go forward, and 

 at the close of the second year to determine which shall 

 receive the certificate of the institute. Although the 

 pupils who come from the provinces are admitted to the 

 first class of the institute, upon their presenting a testi- 

 monial that they have gone through the course of the 

 provincial schools satisfactorily, it frequently happens that 

 they are obliged to retire to the second, especially from 

 defective knowledge of chemistry. 



The cost of this school to the government is about 

 twelve thousand dollars annually, exclusive of the amount 

 expended upon the practical courses and upon the collec- 

 tions—a very trifling sum, if the good which it is calcu- 

 lated to do throughout the country is considered. 



