XXll CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 
to a court from the door which leads to the corridor. The party now in 
the court, sent a spy to look after what Professor Whitman was doing 
and assured that he, taking a few things, has gone home. As the coast 
was clear, the party returned to the laboratory. Dr. Sasaki who had 
been left alone in the laboratory, had already helped himself alone with 
the fried birds that were left in the stove, and was sitting quite satis- 
fied. He spoke smilingly to the party, when they entered in. ‘I was 
very much embarrassed indeed! The handle of the shovel was peeping 
outside the mouth of the stove. Fried birds were making cooking noise 
inside and a tempting odor was ejecting from within. But our teacher 
had not asked a bit. Simply he said, ‘who are that ran out of the room?’ 
So I answered, ‘I do not know.’ ‘At any event I thank you for your 
kind feast.’ Dr Iijima seemed very much disappointed; as yet the case 
being as such that Dr. Sasaki only cannot be blamed at, and he spoke 
to Dr. Sasaki, ‘You lucky fellow.’ The following day we were in a con- 
stant concern and reluctantly expected some sort of punishment on our 
conduct of the previous day. On the contrary Professor Whitman 
didn’t even ask a word about what thus happened the previous day. 
Professor’s Whitman’s attitude of mind toward his pupils was such as 
mother toward her son. 
There were but two rooms devoted to the department of zool- 
ogy in the Imperial University in Whitman’s day; literature and 
apparatus were very scanty and Whitman first introduced modern 
laboratory equipment and methods in microscopical technique. 
His four students were Ishikawa in the first year class, lijima and 
Iwakawa in the second year, and Sasaki in the third year. There 
was an assistant, a janitor and two artists, all of whom were kept 
busy collecting and drawing leeches. It was characteristic of 
Whitman that he should set each of his four students to work on 
a special problem for research, even Ishikawa in his first year of 
zoology. 
Hard work was the order of the day in Whitman’s laboratory; 
he set the example himself, and the students, who lived in a 
dormitory near by, often worked until midnight. Twice a day 
Whitman consulted with each student about his work. In the 
absence of a University biological library Whitman placed his 
own journals and books at the disposal of the students and aided 
them in translating German and French. He kept each man 
close to the study of his individual problem and deplored the wast- 
ing of time spent on ‘other subjects. From time to time he 
delivered lectures on special topics and as a general course he 
expounded Spencer’s Principles of Biology. 
