Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . much augmented in value by a donation from the heirs of JoseBonifacio de Andrada. They presented to the Museum the entirecabinet of their father, who in his long public career had rareopportunities for making a most valuable collection. At an earlyperiod of his life he was Professor of Mineralogy in the Universityof Coimbra, Portugal, where he published several works that gainedhim a reputation among the scientific men of Europe. Through his life he had beenindustrious in ga-thering togethermodels of machinesand mec
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . much augmented in value by a donation from the heirs of JoseBonifacio de Andrada. They presented to the Museum the entirecabinet of their father, who in his long public career had rareopportunities for making a most valuable collection. At an earlyperiod of his life he was Professor of Mineralogy in the Universityof Coimbra, Portugal, where he published several works that gainedhim a reputation among the scientific men of Europe. Through his life he had beenindustrious in ga-thering togethermodels of machinesand mechanical im-provements, toge-ther with choiceengravings andcoins; and hisheirs certainly could not havemade a more mag-nanimous disposalof the whole thanto confer themupon the department ofmineralogy is wellarranged, but con-tains many moreforeign than nativespecimens. Thesame lack of Bra-zilian curiositiesformerly prevailedin other depart-ments, although in that of aboriginal relics there has been fromthe establishment of the Museum a rich collection of ornaments. THE HARPY EAGLE. Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute. 261 and feather-dresses from Para and Matto Grosso. There is a con-stant enlargement and improvement in every respect. Still, itmay be said that while the cabinets of Munich and Vienna, Paris,St. Petersburg, London, and Edinburgh have been enriched bysplendid collections from Brazil, in various departments of naturalhistory, yet in the Imperial Museum of Eio de Janeiro but a meagreidea can be formed of the interesting productions—mineral, vege-table, and animal—in which the Empire abounds. It was here that I saw a very fine living specimen of the greatharpy eagle, from the forests of the Amazon. There is an Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts, which wasfounded in 1824, by a decree of the National Assembly. It is atpresent organized with a Director and four Professors,—viz.: of paint-ing and landscape, of architecture, of sculpture and of
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