THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA. 299 
Institute) de Belen, Central de Senoritas, has a faculty of 
one preceptress and ten female teachers in charge of one 
hundred and twelve pupils, costing the nation $78,000. 
This school occupies an extensive building, with suitable 
cabinets and a gymnasium. A kindergarten is attached 
to this school. 
In Chiquimula is the Instituto de Oriente, with one 
director, six professors, and thirty-three boys, nine board¬ 
ers, and fourteen day-pupils. More important than this 
is the Instituto de Occidente, in Quezaltenango, with a 
director, twenty-two professors, and two hundred and 
twenty-one pupils. Cabinets of minerals and other nat¬ 
ural objects, a chemical laboratory and a meteorological 
observatory, help in the instruction. In the same city is 
a similar school for girls, with a preceptress (directora), 
eleven professoras , and eighty-two pupils. 
Professional instruction, which in the United States of 
the North is not deemed a part of the system of free pub¬ 
lic education, is here undertaken by the Government; and 
four faculties are established to teach law (derecho y no - 
tariado ), medicine and pharmacy, engineering, and phi¬ 
losophy and literature. Each of these faculties elects a 
dean, secretary, and four vocales who have charge of the 
courses of study and other matters peculiar to their 
branch, while the four directories (juntas directivas) 
form a council charged with the sole administration 
of the professional schools. Forty professors teach one 
hundred and thirty-three pupils at a cost of $24,903.96 
to the nation. The law claims forty-two pupils; med¬ 
icine, seventy; engineering, eleven; and literature, ten. 
Special instruction does not stop here, for there are 
also in the capital seven schools, costing $21,762.24, 
