ON THE HISTORY OF BOWANY IN JAPAN. 
By Toxvtaro Ivo, F.L.S. 
(Wirn a Porrrarr.) 
(1630-1714). This illustrious man, evidently the Aristotle of 
Japan, is widely known among Japanese authors not only as the 
livraisons, his notable works on botany are the ‘ Wamio Honzo’ 
Japanese Nomenclature of Botany), the ‘ Kwa-fu’ (Collection of 
owering Plants), and the ‘ Sai-fu.’ He died in the fourth year of 
Shotoku (1714), in the eighty-fifth year of his age. 
The ‘Yamato Honzo’ of Kaibara has been written, we might 
say, without any particular classification. But after that time the 
influence of the well-known Chinese work, ‘ Pun-tsaou-kang-mth’ 
or Syst ture, by Le-She-Chin, became prevalent among 
Japanese authors, the principal exponents of which may men 
ed—T6 Jakusui (about 1690-1710), of Yedo, the illustrious 
author of the great Japanese Encyclopedia, ‘Shobutsu Ruisan,’ 
which consists of one thousand volumes, or, more properly, livraisons; 
Matsuoka Gentatsu, of Kioto, better known by the name of Igansai, 
was famous during the years of Shotoku and Kioho (1711-1735) ; 
Goto Kosei, of Yedo, noted during the years of Yenkio and Horeki 
(1745-1760), whose death took place in April of the eighth year of 
Meiwa (1771), in the seventy-fifth year of his age; Tamura Gen-iu 
about 1750-1770), of Yedo; Hiraga Gennai, of the province of 
ee who came to Yedo, and studied under Tamura Gen-iu ; 
and lastly, Abé Showo. 
We come now to the time of one of the great men of Natural 
History in Japan, who is called by Siebold the « Linné du Japon”: 
Imean Ono Ranzan. He studied Natural History in the school of 
_Journan or Borany.—Vot. 25. [Ave., 1887.] Q 
