342 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.84 



Stations Under the Provincial Governments Entomologist or Dept. 



Taihoku Agricultural Experiment Station, Taihoku, 



Taiwan (Formosa) Dr. T. Shiraki. 



Chosen Forestry Experiment Station, Keijo Mr. J. Murayama. 



Private Laboratories 



Nawa Entomological Laboratory, Gifu Mr. U. Nawa. 



Ohara Institute fiir landwirtschaftliche Forschungen 



Kurashiki, Okayama Dr. C. Harukawa. 



This list has been given me Ijy Mr. C. P. Clausen, who has spent 

 some years in Japan recently and w^ho has also been good enough to 

 furnish me with the following facts : 



The leading university in respect to entomology is that of Hokkaido, with 

 Dr. S. Matsumura as head of the department. The lead taken by this university 

 may be attributed to the fact that when organized 52 years ago it was headed 

 for a short time by President Qark of Amherst, and for a number of years a 

 considerable number of the staff were American. Doctor Matsumura, upon 

 graduating from this university (then the Sapporo Agricultural College, later 

 the Tohoku Imperial University, and finally the Hokkaido Imperial University), 

 spent several years abroad in study and returned in 1893 to hold the newly 

 established chair of entomology. He has served continuously since that time 

 and has built up by far the largest collection of insects in Japan, in fact this is 

 the only comprehensive collection in the country today. The university has 

 recently completed a concrete fire-proof building solely for the housing of this 

 collection. 



For many years the Hokkaido University was the only institution in Japan 

 giving training in entomology, and consequently a large proportion of the leading 

 entomologists of the present day received their training under Doctor Matsumura, 

 notable among them being Doctors Shiraki and Okamoto. 



Doctor Matsumura is a most extensive writer, his best known writings being 

 the three volumes on economic entomology and the twelve profusely illustrated 

 volumes under the title " Thousand Insects of Japan." In addition he has 

 described several thousand species covering practically every order. He speaks 

 and writes both English and German with considerable facility. Working under 

 Doctor Matsumura is Mr. T. Uchida, who is engaged primarily in a study of 

 the Ichneumonoidea. 



As in practically every country the early work in entomology was largely 

 along systematic lines, and the work at Sapporo is still being confined entirely 

 to this line. At other institutions there is now developing quite a pronounced 

 leaning toward the biological phases of the subject. 



The Tokyo Imperial University, with its College of Agriculture at Kamabc, 

 has no department of entomology and at present no entomologist on the staff. 

 Mr. Yano of the Forestry Experiment Station at Meguro delivers a course of 

 lectures there, but nothing further is offered at present. Dr. C. Sasaki was for 

 a period of years professor of entomology at the college but retired in 1920. 

 His work has been largely upon silkworms, and it was while a member of tlic 

 staflF of the Sericultural Experiment Station at Nakano that he made his investi- 

 gations upon the Tachinid, Uginiya sericariae, and published in 1887 his account 

 of the unusual life-history of this parasite, in which was demonstrated for the 

 first time the habit of leaf-oviposition. 



