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The entomological department at Kyoto Imperial University was organized 

 in 1923 with Dr. H. Yuasa, who studied for many years in America and took 

 his doctorate at Illinois, as its head. He is known primarily for his work upon 

 the larvae of the saw-flies. 



The newly organized Taihoku Imperial University in Taiwan (Formosa) 

 has Dr. T. Shiraki as head of the division of entomology and zoology. He also 

 holds the position of chief of the division of economic zoology at the Government 

 Research Institute and entomologist at the Taihoku Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. His best known publications are a large volume on the general economic 

 insects of Formosa and one of several hundred pages reviewing the cotton 

 insects of the world. 



The remaining three of the Imperial universities have no provision at present 

 for teaching or research in entomology. 



The Imperial Central Agricultural Experiment Station at Nishigahara, Tokyo, 

 was at one time the leading institution in research in economic entomology in 

 Japan, with Dr. T. Miyake and Mr. Kuwana on the staff. Upon Kuwana's 

 transfer to quarantine work in 1914 and the death of Doctor Miyake in 1920 

 the activities of the entomological section declined. The station, however, is 

 now being reorganized and will move into a fine new building next month, 

 and it is anticipated tliat the research work of the institution will now be 

 much extended. 



The leading provincial experiment stations as far as entomology is concerned 

 are those of Hokkaido, Okayama, and Wakayama in Japan proper, and at 

 Taihoku, Taiwan (Formosa), and Suigen, Chosen (Korea). The Hokkaido 

 station at Kotoni, Sapporo, of which Mr. S. Kuwayama is the entomologist, is 

 doing extensive work upon field crop and deciduous fruit insects, and a number 

 of extensive publications have been put out in recent years. The Shizuoka 

 station confines itself largely to Citrus problems, but the remaining ones listed 

 cover the entire field, with perhaps greater attention being paid to insects 

 aflfecting rice. 



Of the private institutions the Nawa Entomological Laboratory at Gifu is the 

 oldest and best known. Established by the late Y. Nawa, it is now being con- 

 ducted by his son, U. Nawa. Among other things there is published by this 

 laboratory Konchu Sekai (Insect World) now in its 32nd volume, as well as 

 a number of volumes of taxonomic work, largely on Lepidoptera, by K. Nagano. 

 The income of the laboratory is supplemented by the manufacture and sale of 

 various household articles artistically decorated with the wings of butterflies 

 and moths and other insects also. They have developed a process whereby the 

 scales from the wings of Lepidoptera can be transferred direct to any desired 

 surface, and the coloring and texture is thus identical with the actual specimens. 



The second of the private laboratories is the Ohara Institute at Kurashiki, 

 which is engaged primarily in research along economic lines. Dr. C. Harukawa, 

 who studied for a time at the University of Illinois, is the entomologist, and has 

 published a series of papers dealing with Laspeyres'ia molesfa and various other 

 deciduous fruit insects, as well as upon some afifecting rice.* 



* The Ohara Institute for Agricultural Research is an important organization. 

 Its publications have been mainly printed in German with the title (translated) 

 " Proceedings of the Ohara Institute for Agricultural Research." M. Kondo is 

 the Director of the Institute, and some of the articles are written in the German 

 language. The majority of them are written in English. The Institute has a 



