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In the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Session 
1931-32, Part IV, p. 147), it is stated that His Imperial Majesty, 
the Emperor of Japan, maintains a private botanic garden and lab- 
oratory. 
In a letter of January, 1934, a correspondent of the author, Mr. 
3unkio Matsuki, reports that he made a careful investigation “in 
regard to a botanic garden in the Imperial Household,” with the 
aid of the Imperial Household Librarian, Hon. S. Kitsui, and 
found as follows: 
“ His Majesty, the Emperor of Japan, is an earnest student of 
biology and possesses a laboratory in Momijiyama, which is a part 
of the private Imperial Palace Garden. As far as the investigation 
was made there is no botanic garden in the compound of the Im- 
perial Palace. But, in one sense, the whole Momijiyama (which 
means * Maple-Mount’) is devoted to all kinds of, flowers, and 
itself is a botanic garden.” 
LORY ONS) 
TsuMURA MEDICINAL PLANTs GARDEN 
Tsumura Laboratory, Senkawa, Jindaimura, Tokyo 
Director; Dr. Jukyu Cho. Note: Questionnaire not returned. 
The claim was made (in 1934) that this was the only medicinal 
plant garden in Japan. Publication: Bulletin (No. 1, January, 
Irish Free State 
CORK 
Boranic GARDEN oF UNrversity CoLLEGE 
University College, Cork 
Established: 1877. Area: about 2 acres. 
Plantations: Systematic garden (about 11% acres), rockeries, 
water and bog gardens. Her barium: eee and foreign (espe- 
cially American). Head Gardener: J. Griffin (1914). 
DUBLIN 
Trinity CoLLtece Boranic GARDENS 
Shelbourne Road, Ball’s Bridge 
