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82,000 portraits, and more than 40,000 original designs. 
This collection is one of the finest and most considerable in 
Europe. 
28. Calligraphy.—Gov. Frederick Spang, has exhibited 
in his house at Augsburg a collection of 550 specimens of 
elegant penmanship of the late Abbey Werner. They con- 
sist of models of all the different kinds of writing; choice re- 
flections from the best writers in French, German, Italian, 
English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew ; representations of ar- 
tificial objects, portraits of sovereigns, philosophers, and 
celebrated men, all wrought simply with pen and ink. 
29. Switzerland. Canton of Argovia.—The grand coun- 
cil of our Canton, decreed last year the establishment of a 
normal school for the formation of school-masters, destined 
not only for those who may desire to embrace that profes- 
sion, but-also to furnish the means of perfecting those who 
have already entered the career of public instruction. A 
sum of 6000 Swiss livres (about 1,780 dollars) has been ap- 
propriated which will provide for the appointment of pro- 
fessors, and afford also the means of instruction. € pu- 
pils, the number of whom is not to exceed 30, must possess 
on entering, the knowledge usually acquired in the primary 
schools. ‘This instruction will continue two years, and will 
embrace the German language, arithmetic, geometry, nat- 
ural history in its relations to raral economy, to the me- 
chanic arts, and to the daily wants of life; geography, na- 
tional history, music and drawing. Particular attention 
will be paid to the religious and moral instruction of the pu- 
pils, who will also be alternately exercised in giving mstrac- 
tion in the different branches of knowledge. 2 
30. Abau.—The Society forméd a few years since in this 
town, for furnishing instraction during the winter months, 
to the young people of the Canton over eighteen years of. 
age, continued last winter its course of gratuitous instruc= 
tion with complete success, The subjects treated of in this 
course, were the history uf the Swiss confederacy, combi- 
ned with modern history; physical geography; the prinet- 
ples of natural law; geometry; mineralogy; and the fun- 
damental principles of mechanics. The pupils have been. 
