EDITORIAL 



There has come to the editors of this Journal, Volume i, Number 

 I, of the Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography, issued under 

 the auspices of the National Research Council, Department of 

 Education, Japan. The journal is published in Tokio and will be 

 issued as a quarterly. The Journal of Geology extends to this new 

 confrere in the service of the earth sciences its hearty congratulations 

 and good wishes. For a number of years Japan has been sending 

 many of her young geologists to the United States for their special 

 training, and the associations thus established have been mutually 

 pleasant and profitable. The appearance of this journal, published 

 in English, will extend and strengthen the comradeship in science 

 between Japan and the United States and with all other English- 

 speaking countries. The new journal consists in part of original 

 contributions and in part of abstracts of articles appearing in other 

 Japanese pubHcations. Many of these cover articles originally 

 published in Japanese that would not otherwise be utilizable by 

 English-speaking readers. Many of the abstracts are prepared by 

 the authors, and others come from such authoritative reviewers as 

 Takeo Kato, well known to American geologists. While most of 

 the abstracts are in English, one of them is in German. 



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