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engaged for several years in engineering work in 

 America, for some time as a momber of the Mis- 

 sissippi River Commission in St. Louis, and at an- 

 other time in the Iron Bridge Works at Edge 

 Moore, Delaware. Appointed Associate Professor 

 of the College, he was now ordered to complete his 

 engineering studies in Germany. He studied in the 

 Royal Polytechnic Institutes of Karlsruhe and 

 Stuttgart : in the latter he took the academic degree 

 of " Civil Engineer." The other, Nitobe, had been 

 studying successively after his graduation in the 

 Imperial University and in the Johns Hopkins, his 

 inclination being towards History and Economics. 

 While lie was studying in Baltimore, the appoint- 

 ment came, together with the order to proceed at 

 once to Germany, there to devote three years to the 

 study of Agricultural Economics and Administration.* 

 He studied in Bonn, Berlin and Halle, taking his 

 degree of A.M. and Ph. D. in the last mentioned 

 University. His published works are, besides maga- 

 zine articles, a German monograph on the Landed 

 Property in Japan, and a book written in English 

 on the Intercourse between the United States and 

 . his country. 



It would be some years before these young men 

 conld be ready for efficient work. Meanwhile the 

 College had to go on in the lines it had marked out 

 for itself. Other specialists must be engaged to 

 carry on the programme. Accordingly in the spring 

 of 1887, Giyemon Sudo, a graduate in Veterinary 

 Medicine of the Komaba Agricultural College, was 

 called to Sapporo to fill the chair vacated at Dr Cut- 

 ter's return to America. The two years' contract of 



