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51. A somewhat full description of the Institution and work will 

 now be given, baaed partly upon two visits of inspection, partly on 

 official papers, chiefly a descriptive pamphlet. By an Imperial Edict 

 of 1897 " the school course was extended to three years, and in the 

 third year each student was to specialize in one of three courses, 

 viz., fishing, fisheries technology, and pisciculture. A post-graduate 

 course was also founded for those who, having graduated in the regular 

 course wished to select and study one or more subjects in their 

 special lines. At the beginning, students of this course were per- 

 mitted to stay only one year at the longest in the institute for further 

 study ; but this term was afterwards extended to three years. In 

 June of the same year the department of Agriculture and Commerce 

 issued the Regulations relating to the course of Pelagic fishing, and 

 the institute began the training of the students w^ho had taken up 

 that course of study. In June 1900, an Experimental Station for the 

 course of Fisheries Technology was founded at Odawara in Kanagawa 

 Prefecture. 



In September 1899, a fishing schooner of about 140 tons was built 

 for the purpose of training the students and was named the Kaiyo 

 Maru. Since that time the students in the department of fishing have 

 been sent on board this vessel for practice. 



In the matter of the training of the teachers lor the fisheries 

 schools or technical schools, the institute has been doing a good deal 

 of work. In 1896, fifteen graduates of various normal schools were 

 sent by the department of Education to this institute to be specially 

 trained as teachers. 



The institute has also been busy with the training of men who 

 desire to go through a shorter course of study relating to such indus- 

 tries as canning and curing fish, the mauufacture offish oil and iodine, 

 net making, etc. 



Besides, in compliance with the request of the department of 

 Agriculture and Commerce, the institute is engaged in giving a short 

 course of lectures to the members of the Local fisheries experimental 

 stations and fisheries schools on special subjects in all branches of 

 fisheries." 



The President is Professor S. Matsubara, a well-known expert 

 mentioned supra, passim, who has been delegated by Government on 

 various important occasions and who, with Mr. Murata, v^as instru- 

 mental after the Berlin Fisheries exhibition of 1880, in founding the 

 Japanese fisheries society ; he is assisted by 5 professors and 4 

 lecturers, besides a subordinate staff in the several departments. 



52. The regular work is divided into three courses, fishing, 

 fisheries technology, and pisciculture ; each couise lasts three years 

 and no student can take uj» more than one at a time, or change from 

 course to course ; each course is again sub-divided into lecturing and 



