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in 1883. He became Professor of Zoology in the University of Tokyo 

 in 1882. In 1893 he was made a Councillor of the University, and in 

 1 901 Dean of the College of Science, which position he held until 1907. 

 He died in 1909. 



Mitsukuri, from his researches, became well known to all zoologists, 

 and he did great work in the training of students who entered many 

 different departments of entomological investigation. He brought 

 together a very large collection of Japanese insects which were sent 

 to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. They were most of 

 them subsequently presented to the United States National Museum 

 and received the attention of a large number of specialists, among 

 them the late W. H. Ashmead. 



Mitsukuri was much more than a broad zoologist ; he was a high- 

 minded, broad-thinking, patriotic citizen of Japan. In 1897 he visited 

 the United States and gave a course of lectures before the Lowell 

 Institute in Boston on the subject of " The Social Life of Japan." 

 These lectures were subsequently published, and in 1922 were trans- 

 lated into French by Prof. M. Miyajima and published by the Franco- 

 Japanese Society of Paris. No one who reads one of these books can 

 fail to be impressed more than ever before by the high ethical spirit 

 of the better type of Japanese life, and especially by the training of 

 the children which fits them to become the highly efficient people the 

 Japanese have shown themselves to be in many ways. 



Applied entomology was somewhat in advance of systematic ento- 

 mology, and a book on injurious insects was published by Fukuhara 

 in 1882. Later, Ono published his " Introduction to Applied Ento- 

 mology," and volumes on insects by Sasaki and Matsumura were 

 published in 1899. 



The first lectures on entomology were given in 1880 at the Komaba 

 College at Tokyo by K. Neruki, and in 1882 Dr. C. Sasaki began his 

 work there which concerned itself principally with research upon 

 silkworms and which continued until his retirement in 1920. Sasaki's 

 early research work upon the Tachinid parasite of the silkworm, 

 which he called Ujimyia sericaria and which caused a mortality among 

 silkworms to which had been given the name in Japan of the iiji. 

 disease, was astonishing to the entomological world in the novelty of 

 its results, and his early announcements met with general incredulity. 

 They were later abundantly confirmed by the work of C. H. T. 

 Townsend and others ; and the old ideas of the bionomics of the 

 Tachinidae have been vastly modified. 



At the Sapporo Agricultural College (now the Hokkaido Imperial 

 University) lectures were given by Nozawa and Hashimoto prior to 

 Doctor Matsumura's coming in 1895. 



