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Mr. Kiuch published A Olassitied and Descriptive Catalogue of Agri- 

 cultural Products Exhibited at Sydney, Australia (Tokio, 1879). This 

 contains numerous analyses of Japanese soils, manuring materials, and 

 technical products. Professor Kellner has published some twenty-three 

 accounts of original investigations in the Landtcirthschaftliche Versuchs- 

 tStaiioneii (Bde. 30, 32, 33, 37), LandnnrthschaftUche JahrhUcher (Bd. 15), 

 Zeifschrift fur riiy.siologische Chemie (Bd. 14), ZeiiHchrift fur Biolofjie 

 (Bd.lO), and Mittheilungen der deutscheu GesdlscliaftfilrNatur- und Volk- 

 erhundc Ostasiens (Bd. 4). These include reports of inquiries on the 

 physics and cliemistry of soils, composition of crops, use of fecal mat- 

 ters as manure, the growth and nutrition of silk- worms, silage, diges- 

 tion experiments with sheep, nitrogen conipounds in atmospheric pre- 

 cipitation, the elfects of ferrous compounds on vegetation, composition 

 of tea leaves and methods of drying tlie tea, the liberation of free nitro- 

 gen by putrefaction and nitrification, the food of the Japanese, inver- 

 tive ferments, rice cultivation, and the composition and digestibility of 

 rice straw. The Imperial College of Agriculture and Dendrology at 

 Tokio has also published seven bulletins in English, of which five are 

 by Professor Kellner, one by Professor Georgeson, and one bj' Mr. 

 Kozai. The titles of these bulletins were given in Experiment Station 

 Record, Vol. I, p. 247. 



(2) Agronomical section of the Imperial Geological Survey of Japan, 

 ,ToMo. — The Imperial Geological Institute was established in 1879, and 

 comprises five divisions, viz., geological, agronomical, technical-chemi- 

 cal, topograi)hical, and executive. The development of this institution 

 is described in a work by the ministerial councilor, T. Wada, entitled 

 Die Kaiserliche Geologinche Reichsanstalt von Japan, zusammengestelU filr 

 den Internationalen Geologen Congress zu Berlin, ISSo (Berlin, R. Eried- 

 liinder u. Sohn, 1885). The agronomical division was for a brief period 

 in 1880 under the direction of Dr. G. Liebscher, now professor at Got- 

 tiugen, and from 1882 has been in charge of Dr. M. Fesca, who is also 

 a i)rofessor in agriculture at the Imperial College of Agriculture at 

 Tokio. Tlie number of assistants has been increased until now ten are 

 employed. A laboratory for soil analyses forms a part of the equip- 

 ment of this section. During the summer the force is chiefly engaged 

 in surveys and investigations in the country, and during the winter in . 

 analyzing the specimens of soils collected, in preparing soil charts, and 

 in working up and reporting results. These workers are also expected 

 to study the agricultural needs of the districts in which their surveys 

 are made and to give useful information to farmers, tlius acting as 

 itinerant teachers of practical agriculture, a work of especial importance 

 in view of the present condition of affairs in Japan. Thus far agro- 

 nomical charts for seven provinces have been i^ublislied and thirteen 

 other maps are in course of preparation. These charts are lettered in 

 English and Japanese, and are accompanied by explanatory statements 

 in Japanese. 



