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the hill. The investigators include Professor Mitsukuri, one of the 

 founders of the station and its director, and usually the greater num- 

 ber of the staff of the zoological department of the Science College. 

 Professor Tjima frequently comes down to visit his reefs of glassy 

 sponges, Professor Watase, Professor Goto, Dr. Izuka, Dr. Miyajima, 

 Mr. Namiye, some of the younger assistants, and three or four of the 

 graduate students of the institute at Tokyo make up the remaining 

 corps of investigators. During the writer's visit, a Russian ichthyolo- 



A Crew of Fishermen. 



gist, Professor P. Schmidt, became a guest of the station, and an 

 American zoologist, Mr. J. F. Abbott. 



The work-quarters, it may be mentioned, are simple, but all neces- 

 sary appliances and books are promptly forwarded from the institute 

 at Tokyo. It is the collecting facilities which the visitor does not 

 forget, for not only is the locality a rich one, but the ways and means 

 are at hand to secure material even from great depths. And in this 

 lies the value of neighboring Misaki, for during many months of the 

 year the fisher people set out at sunrise in their large boats, proceed 



