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of the general characteristics of the Hokkaido flora. 



Among the events of the year 1.886, mention may 

 be made of the departure of two of the graduates, 

 Kingo Miyabe of the class of 1881 and Sho 

 Watase of the class of 1884, for America. Destined 

 to become Professors of the College, they had both 

 been sent to the Imperial University in Tokyo to 

 further prosecute their studies in Natural Science. 

 They were now dispatched, the former to Harvard 

 to study Botany under Farlow and Goodale, the 

 latter to Johns Hopkins to complete his zoological 

 researches under Martin and Brooks. It is but just 

 to mention that they did credit to their alma mater 

 b} r the service they rendered to their respective 

 sciences. Miyabe, who received the degree of 

 " Doctor of Science/" in Cambridge, published the 

 result of his investigations in the two papers, " The 

 W Life-History of Macrospo/ium parasiticum, ThXin.," /'* 

 and " The Flora of the Kurile Islands." Watase, 

 Ph. D., of the Johns Hopkins, now Assistant in the 

 new Chicago University, made his work public in 

 several scientific publications, y&nong which we may 

 -// note here the principal ones, which are " On the 

 Anal and Caudal Fins of Gold Fish," " Observations 

 -'on the Development of Celopholopods," "On the 

 Morphology of the Compound Eyes of Arthropods;"/ / 

 " On Cartfyokinesis," etc. 



To make the faculty still more complete, two more 

 young men were the following year commissioned 

 to prepare themselves for future Professorships. 

 They were Isami Hiroi and Inazo Nitobe, graduates 

 of the class of 1881, both of whom were in America 

 at the time of their appointment. Hiroi had been 



