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82,000 portraits, and more than 40,000 original d(^signs. 

 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. The 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 rural 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 instruc- 

 tion in the different branches of knowledge. 



30. Ahau. — The Society formed a ^e.w years since in this 

 town, for furnishing instruction 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 of the Swiss confederacy, combi- 

 ned with modern history; phj'sical geography; the princi- 

 ples of natural law; geometry; mineralogy; and the fun- 

 damental principles of mechanics. The pupils have been 



