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THE working of the National Museums in Brazil seems to be conducted on similar principles to those recently advocated for the management of the Government Museums in this country. From a thick volume of 388 pp. explanatory of the topography, constitution, and resources of Brazil, issued in connection with the Brazilian Department of the late Vienna Exhibition, we gather that the most important Natural History Museum in South America, is that at Rio de Janeiro, which was founded in 1817. It is divided into four sections:—the first includes Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, and Zoology; the second Botany, Agriculture, and the Mechanical Arts; the third Mineralogy, Geology, and the Physical Sciences; and the fourth Numismatics, Archaeology, &c. Each section has its separate director, who has assistants, and the whole Museum is presided over by a Director-in-Chief. “The Museum has, besides, several corresponding members in the National and Foreign Scientific Societies, and there are two naturalists travelling through the Empire, for the purpose of making collections.
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National Museums in Brazil . Nature 9, 463 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009463e0
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