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leopards with inordinately large blue eyes. This is Leopard 

 undoubtedly due to the fact that the artists worked ^^^ '" 

 only from skins in which the orbits are necessarily an 

 unduly stretched. The eyes, moreover, are colored 

 light blue, instead of yellowish green, their natural 

 shade. The explanation of this may be that in 

 Japanese the word <20, blue, serves also at times for 

 green. 



Besides visits to the various local places of interest, 

 we made two outside excursions, one to Chemulpo, 

 the seaport, with its long, flat stretches of tideland, 

 and one to the government agricultural station at 

 Suigen. At this institution we were greatly impressed 

 with the conscientious and intelligent work of the 

 director. Dr. Honda, and his associates. In the dor- 

 mitory, for instance, the rooms were planned as in 

 Korean homes, the stone floors being heated by fires 

 underneath. In the station itself, trees and plants 

 of the whole temperate zone were being tried out and 

 improvements being made in the breed of native 

 species. Rice yielding a third more than the ordinary 

 had already been introduced. With the wild silk- 

 worm and the dwarf oak on which it feeds, special 

 experiments were then in progress. The head forester, 

 Mr. Saito, spoke of his work in forest restoration as 

 "a religion," and the fisheries director, Mr. Ihara, 

 held a similar lofty view of his duty. 



During my stay in Seoul I myself made a considera- Fishes 

 ble collection of fishes, in addition to those secured by °/^'°^^^ 

 Ihara under instructions from General Terauchi. 

 The whole lot filled seventeen tanks and formed the 

 basis of a report on the Fishes of Korea. ^ 



^ By Jordan and Thompson (Will F.), published (1913) by the Carnegie 

 Museum, in which institution a full series is deposited. 



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