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experimental or practical. Besides the regular courses, there are 

 special ones, viz., a post-graduate course which may be taken by a 

 graduate of a regular course on a subject studied in that course ; a 

 pelagic or deep-sea course ; and a special industrial course. Extra 

 laboratory work and practical training outside the regular lessons are 

 given when necessary or possible, and the summer vacation of two 

 months is, in the third year, wholly devoted to such work. The 

 academic year is of 290 days. Candidates for the regular courses 

 must, be graduates from a middle school or of equal educational attain- 

 ments, must be above 17, and must pass an entrance examination held 

 in January every year in Tokyo and the districts simultaneously. 



53. Tlie three regular courses have the following objects : 

 " fishing '' is to teach all the best methods of capturing fish and other 

 marine products, and of managing boats, nets, lines, and gear neces- 

 sary ; the technological or " preservation '' course is to teach the art of 

 preserving fish as food, and of manufacturing or treating marine 

 products of various kinds such as oils, manures, salt, iodine, vegetable 

 isinglass, fish skins, etc. ; the " culture ^' course is to teach the art of 

 the artificial hatching and rearing of various aquatic products. 



64. The subjects taught in the department oi fishing are, methods 

 of fishing, navigation, seamanship, shipbuilding, meteorology, ocean- 

 ography, applied mechanics, applied zoology, applied botany, 

 mathematics, law, economics and book-keeping, English, elementary 

 fisheries technology with laboratory work and practice; 27 hours a 

 week are given to lectures, and the rest to practice. In the course of 

 fisheries technology, the subjects are foods (marine products), industrial 

 materials (marine products), bacteriology, applied mechanics, indus- 

 trial chemistry, chemistry, chemical analysis, applied zoology, applied 

 botany, law, economics and book-keeping, English ; in the first year 

 25 hours and in the second 18 hours per week are given to lectures, 

 and the remainder to laboratory and workshop work and practice. In 

 the course of pisciculture the subjects are fresh water culture, salt 

 water culture, protection of fish, etc., embryology, bacteriology, 

 oceanography, chemistry, applied zoology, applied botany, law, 

 economics and book-keeping, drawing, English ; 24 and 22 hours a 

 week are given to lectures and the remainder to practical work. 



55. The investigation or post-graduate course is provided for those 

 who have graduated from the regular course in any of the tliree 

 departments and who wish to devote another three years at the most 

 to some subjects in their special lines. Those who are admitted to 

 the course are placed under a professor specially appointed by the 

 Institute, and when they have completed their study they have to 

 produce an essay pertaining to the particular subject they have been 

 studying. On passing this test they receive diplomas. 



