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at 6 lbs. There are other canned products which do not commend 

 themselves to European tastes ; smoking is also under trial, 



47. This station has had a small fishing school attached to it 

 for three years, not under the Educational but under the Fisheries 

 Department ; it is for sons of fishermen and others, with a two years' 

 course. Students must have passed the Upper Primary, be above 

 sixteen years of age and residents of the district ; they are admitted 

 on nomination by a village head to the head of the county (taluk) 

 who makes his I'ecommendations ; all must be boarders and they are 

 maintained at the cost of the school if the pupil needs such assistance, 

 but at a cost not exceeding Rs. 6 each per mensem ; tuition is free. 

 So far (three years') 4 have passed out, who have all gone for fishery 

 work in one form or other ; 10 will pass out this year ; they are taught 

 new methods and ideas in the several branches of the ijidustry. The 

 station has also a special itinerating instructor who gives twenty-day 

 courses, at various localities, to sons of actual fishermen only and in 

 special subjects, such as the manufacture of iodmo from seaweed (a 

 profitable Japanese industry), the proper preparation of dried bonito 

 (a universal Japanese food stuff), the preserving ot" fish in soy, etc. ; 

 apparatus is taken from the station and practical teaching given 

 therewith. 



The cost of the station in the year ending March 1905 was 

 Rs. 14,122. 



48. Marine Biological Lahorator//. — There is a Marine Biological 

 Laboratory a few miles from Tokyo, but this is attached to the Uni- 

 versity and is intended for scientific research of which Professor 

 Mitsukuri is the head. This laboratory is largely attended, and 

 while devoted to pure science the results have, as elsewhere, led to 

 important economic suggestions ; it was on Professor Mitsukuri's 

 advice that the first Experimental Station was founded ; it is he who 

 suggested the method of growing artificial pearls {q.v.) and it is 

 believed that his suggestions in the culture of turtle, etc., have been 

 of much value. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF FISHERIES SCHOOLS. 



49. These ai'e of various grades and classes from the Imperial 

 Fishery Institute frequently mentioned above to the Sessional courses 

 given by itinerant instructors. As already stated, there seem to have 

 been travelling instructors for some time before 1894 and the Fisheries 

 Society also employed instructors, but organised technical education 

 was soon found to be necessary to supply in the first place the neces- 

 sary fishing experts and instructors, and secondly, to train and teach 

 the fishing classes. The institutions may be divided into the Imperial 

 Fishery Institute at Tokyo, the Fishery schools under the Educational 



