"Escripta á convite da illustrada Commissão superior da Exposicão nacional de 1875 com o fim de apparecer na Exposicão de Philadelphia."
Brief biographies of 365 persons, one for each day of the year. Each individual appears under the date corresponding to that of his birth or death, or to the date of some prominent event in the history of Brazil, with which he was connected.
Also published in English the same year.