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(N) Learned Societies and other Associations. 



1. J'apanese Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Office : Zoological Institute, Tokyo Imp. Univ. ; Esfd in 1925 ; 

 First annual meeting held in Tokyo in 1925, second annual 

 meeting to be held in Kyoto in Oct. 1 926 ; President : Torasaburo 

 Akaki, M. D., Dir. Kyoto Imp. Univ. ; Members : 1500 ; 

 Puhlications : Report of the annual meetings, (in Japanese), vol. 1 

 in 1926. 



2. Tlie Mathematical Association of tTapan for Secondary Education. 



Office : Tokyo Higher Normal School for Women ; Esfd in 1919 ; 

 President : Tsuruichi Hayashi, D. Sc. ; Members : 1619 ; 



Publications : Journal of Math. Ass. Jap., (in Japanese), bimonthly, 

 Vol. 7 in 1925. 



3. TJie Physico-Mathefnatical Society of Japan. 



Office : Physical Institute, Tokyo Imp. Univ. ; Esfd in 1879, as 

 the Mathematical Society of Tokyo ; changed to the Physico- 

 Mathematical Society of Tokyo in 1884 ; and to the Physico- 

 Mathematical Society of Japan in 1919 ; Chairman : Kwan'ichi 

 Terasawa, D. Sc, ; Member's : 713 ; Publications : Proceedings 

 of the Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan ; older series up to 

 1884, 67 vols. ; since 1884, Series I, 9 vols., Series II, 9 vols., 

 Series III, 8 vols, up to the present ; 11 numbers annually. 



4. The Astronomical Society of Ja^tan. 



Office : Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka Mura, Tokyo Fu ; 

 Esfd in 1908 ; Chairman : Kiyofusa Sotome, U. Sc. ; Members : 

 800 ; Publications ; The Astronomical Herald, (in Japanese), 

 monthly, Vol. 17 in 1926. 



5. The Society of Astronomical Friends. 



Ojjice : Institute of Cosmical Physics, Kyoto Imp. Univ. ; Esfd 

 in 1920 ; Chief secretary : Issei Yamamoto, D. Sc. ; Members : 

 1500; Publications'. The Heavens, (in Japanese), monthly, Vol. 6 

 in 1926 ; Bulletin, (in English), occasional, No. 88 in 1926. 



0. 3Ieteorological Society of Japan. 



Ojffice : Central Meteorological Observatory, Tokyo ; Esfd in 1882 ; 

 President : Kiyoo Nakamuua, D. Sc. ; Members : 336 ; 

 Publications : Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 

 monthly. Series I up to 1922 ; Series II from 1923 onward. Vol. 

 4 in 1926. 



