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continued with a few changes which made its course 

 higher and more comprehensive. There was also 

 formed a Practical Course in Agriculture, to train 

 some of the younger generation of Hokkaido farmers 

 in the use of improved machines, the care of live 

 stock, the rudiments of agricultural science, etc. 

 Any more detailed account of these different courses 

 of instruction necessarily relates to the present stand- 

 ing of the College, and we will defer it until we shall 

 have treated in chronological order the events, that 

 i transpired between 1886 and 1892. 



To briefly enumerate, then, the main events of 

 the period, great improvements were made since 

 1886 in the museum and the Botanic Garden, both 

 of which were assigned to the College the previous 

 year. The former is a nice two-story frame build- 

 ing erected independently of the College Museum in 

 1832, and has been the repository of a rich mineral- 

 ogical collection made by Benjamin S. Lyman, of 

 specimens of Ainu relics and utensils, and of a large 

 number of stuffed animals representing the fauna of 

 the Hokkaido. The Botanic Garden, beautifully 

 situated in the westerly part of the town, consists of 

 grounds with a gently undulating surface, through 

 which meanders a murmuring brook of the freshest 

 water. Here and there are still standing in their 

 pristine dignity Bvjme solitary elm trees, majestic 

 survivors of the forest primeval that once covered 

 the Island. The whole garden with an area of over 

 thirty acres, serves at present as a public park. A 

 part of it is laid out in parallel rectangular beds 

 planted with different kinds of trees and herbs, ar- 

 ranged in natural order, so as to give an excellent idea 



