The average monthly salary is 45 pesos.

There are over 250 “Juntas de Educacion” in the different Departments, Cantones and Districts.

The National Government aided them with 95,587.59 pesos, in the following manner:

16,572.99pesos to theJuntasof theDepartment ofSan José.
14,686.10””””Alajuela.
2,100.00””””Cartago.
31,768.50””””Heredia.
30,100.00””””Guanacaste.
360.00””””Puntarenas.

To aid these Juntas a special school-loan has been made; besides the taxes on slaughtering are turned over to them.

Higher education is given in the Liceo de Costa Rica, with 206 enrolled students, and in the Colegio Superior de Señoritas, with 223 students, both in San José; also in the provincial Institutes of Cartago, Alajuela and Heredia.

There is in addition a school for medicine and pharmacy in San José with seventeen students, and a law-school dependent on the “college of lawyers.”

For other higher studies the Government pays the expenses of ten Costa Ricans in European universities and high schools. Further, the Government of Chile allows six Costa Ricans to study at its expense in the pedagogical Institute of Santiago.

Another very important national institution is the “Instituto fisico-geográfico,” under the direction of the very competent Professor H. Pittier, with three sections; a geographical section for topographical study and a construction of maps, also a meteorological and a botanical section. Their excellent publications have proved the great usefulness of this institution, and it is to be wished that its able and learned director will get adequate aid to carry out his promising studies of the physical features of Costa Rica.

Another useful institution is the “National Museum,” under the intelligent direction of a young Costa Rican scientist. Mr. Anastasio Alfaro. It has an interesting section of archæology and ethnography, and a section of zoology, already rich in cabinets, to which is attached a small zoological garden.