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students attended these lectures. The second professor's 

 chair includes pathology, materia-medica, therapeutics, and 

 clinical medicine. Eleven students attended this course 

 in the years 1848 and 1849. The first professor has given 

 lectures on midwifery, and diplomas to 50 females, who now 

 practise in the district of Funchal. 



There are several places of general education : — Firstly, a 

 Lyceum, which forms part of a huilding erected by the Jesuits 

 when they visited the island in 1566. For this establishment 

 a law, passed on the 12th of June, 1849, appointed the fol- 

 lowing professors : — Chairs 1 and 2, under one professor, 

 embrace Portuguese and Latin grammar, and the study 

 of the Latin tongue. — Chair 3. Arithmetic and the elements 

 of algebra and geometry. — Chair 4. Logic, moral philosophy, 

 and the elements of natural right. — Chair 5. Rhetoric, poetry, 

 and classical literature. — Chair 6. Commerce, geography, chro- 

 nology, and history*. Secondly, there are forty-one schools of 

 primary instruction ; four are paid by the treasury, of which one 

 is a girls' school, and sixteen paid by the municipal corporation, 

 of which eleven are girls' schools. The private schools are 

 twenty-one in number. The number of scholars is 2203 ; 

 of these 883 are boys, and 1320 are girls. There is an infant 

 school, with an income of about £150; and there are two 

 Recolhimentos, or refuges : one for orphans, in connection with, 

 and supported by, the hospital of Funchal ; and the other, 

 the Bom Jezus, for widows and others, supported by its own 

 revenues, but under the direction of the ordinary. The 



* In the years 1848-49, the courses of the 1st and 2nd of these chairs 

 were attended by twenty -four students ; on the 3rd chair there was no 

 attendance; the 4th was attended by seventeen; and the 5th by eleven. 

 On chair 6 there was no attendance. Of the French and English languages 

 there were thirty-four students ; sixteen of the former, and eighteen of the 

 latter. 



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