ON THE RECENT ERUPTION OF SAKURAJIMA VOLCANO IN JAPAN. 135 
The city of Kogoshima, which 18 inhabited by ca. 70,000 peoples, lies on 
the western coast of the above-mentioned Satsuma Bay, with a very fine pictu- 
resgue view of Sakurajima volcano, like Naples with the view of Vesuvio. The 
strait between Kagoshima and Sakurajima measures about 4 km, and the crater 
on the top of Sakurajima volcano 15 distant about 8 km írom the city. 
I think, the reeent eruption would have been taken place on the south cra- 
ter of the volcano (the volcano has three craters on the top), and the city of Kago- 
Fig. 17. Sakurajima Volcano in Japan. 
shima just stood in leeward. Ít 15 a very lamentable event, that s0 a beautiful and 
flourishing city was visited by the monstrous fire of the volcano. 
If the catastrophe was so great as the London Telegraph runs, my lamen- 
tation is especially great. Why? I have two reasons. Firstly, because I have there 
many Íriends, who were occupied themselves as professors on the State College 
of Agriculture and the Higher Middle School. Secondly, because the city is the 
birthplace of many distinguished. statesmen and military persons in Japan; in- 
deed Marshal Ovama, Marshal ToGo, General Kunkoxi, the late General Nopzu, 
Admiral Kamimuka (above all are the world-known names as the congueror of 
the Russo-Japanese war), the present Minister President Count YAMAMOTO, Mar- 
guis MATSUKATA, Count KABOYAMA, the late Saigo the Great and Okubo, very 
famous as veteran statesmen of the Restoration, are all born in Kagoshima. 
Budapest, 14. Jan. 1914. 
Prof. Dr. T. WAKIMIZU. 
