396 Education in Denmark. — South America. 



Annuaire duBureau des Longitudes, there were in 1823, 932,130 

 births in the year, which gives one child abandoned out of 

 every twenty-eight. It appears, from the information given 

 by the Government, that the provinces near the sea, in which 

 there are most populous cities, and which are the centre of 

 arts and industry, containing 20,000,000 inhabitants, hardly 

 give as many foundlings as the remaining 10,000,000 who oc- 

 cupy the centre provinces, from which Paris and Lyons are 

 subtracted, as each of them supplies 6000. 



EDUCATION IN DENMARK. 



In Denmark the system of mutual instruction is making 

 great progress ; and although only a short time since it was 

 established, there are already one hundred and forty schools 

 where this method is followed. Count Moltke, Minister of 

 State to the King of Denmark, is recently dead ; and not 

 content with patronizing the sciences during his life, he 

 even wished to support them after his death. He has, in 

 consequence, left to the University of Copenhagen 60,000 

 rix dollars, to be distributed as rewards to the Professors of 

 Natural Sciences who shall treat certain questions to be pro- 

 posed by the University in the best manner. He has also 

 given 10,000 dalers to the Academy of the Fine Arts, and 

 100,000 to be employed in educating the sons of poor officers. 

 These legacies are strongly contrasted with the regulations 

 sometimes made in other countries in favour of monastic in- 

 stitutions that some people are desirous of reviving. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



M. Humboldt communicated to the Academy of Sciences, 

 at its last sitting, some very interesting observations made by 

 Messrs. Boussingault and Reveno, two travellers whom we 

 have several times mentioned to our readers. These gentle- 

 men have analysed an aerolite, weighing several quintaux, 

 which they found in the mountains of Santa Rosa, to the 

 north-east of San ta-Fe-de- Bogota. They say, according to 

 letters from Antioquia, that a mass of native gold has lately 

 been found, weighing more than 190lbs. They have proved 

 the presence of both sulphuric and muriatic acids in the 

 waters of a small river which runs from the volcano of 

 Parace, near Popayan, and which is called by the inhabit- 

 ants Vinegar River. The letters of these gentlemen are up 

 to January 5, 1824. At that time a School of Mines was 

 about to be established at Bogota, and the country enjoyed 

 the greatest tranquillity. — Constitutional. 



CANCER. 



