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patrimony and is now practically dependent on the receipts 

 from his school for its maintenance. He has carried on his 

 work in entomology with the greatest enthusiasm for these 

 many years, and has established a sort of entomological acad- 

 emy or school housed in a considerable series of buildings 

 surrounding a court and comprising laboratories, work rooms, 

 museum rooms, etc. His own work and the work of his stu- 

 dents in applied and systematic entomology is of the most 

 creditable kind and compares favorably with that of our own 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations. It will be re- 

 membered that among the best of the collections of foreign 

 insects exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 was 

 one made by Mr. Nawa and which was afterwards most gen- 

 erously donated to the National Museum. 



Mr. Nawa's academy is attended by advanced students and 

 also by teachers and instructors from various educational in- 

 stitutions, colleges and universities of the Empire. Most of 

 these students are men of mature years who are attracted by 

 the fame of Mr. Nawa and his work and wish to fit themselves 

 for teaching entomology or for special work in the field of 

 applied entomology. Mr. Nawa is now 50 years old, and has 

 devoted his life to this work from pure love of the subject and 

 with very little aid, and the results which have followed from 

 his industry and enthusiasm are truly remarkable. In recent 

 years the government has recognized the extreme value of his 

 work in education and the study of economic problems in en- 

 tomology, and there is a proposition now on foot to give him 

 a regular subsidy, small in amount but sufficient to enable 

 him to continue his work with greater confidence. 



At the time of my first visit to Gifti one of the annual pro- 

 vincial fairs or expositions was in progress, and Mr. Nawa's 

 academy was also giving an entomological fair or exposition 

 for which he had been preparing for a considerable number of 

 years. This exhibit was open to the Japanese public, and 

 streams of visitors were going through the gates and paying 

 the small fee to study it. It comprised very much such an 

 exhibit as would .be made at one of our general expositions, 

 filling several large rooms and included cases illustrating the 



