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the direction of the Japan Fisheries Society, proposed to the 

 Imperial Diet in its tenth session, to obtain an appropriation that 

 this might be done. The Diet approved, and thus the present 

 Institute came into being in 1897. 



From the first the Institute has been divided into two 

 Departments. — Educational and Experimental. 



The Educational Department is composed of three distinct 

 courses. — Fishing, Technology and Piscicnlture, and their 

 study ranged over three years. Candidates for entrance into the 

 Institute must have completed three years of Middle School 

 education or its equivalent. During the third year of study at 

 the Institute, -Indents specialized in one of the three courses 

 mentioned above. 



The Educational Department. 



According to the new regulations in forcj since 1900, tliere arc, 

 in the Educational Department two courses. — the Principal and 

 the Practical ; and in addition two secondary courses for those 

 graduates of the Principal course who desire to pursue their 

 studies further. 



The Principal Course is divided into three Divisions. — Fishing, 

 Technology, and Pisciculture, each of which must be com- 

 pleted in three years. Candidates for the Principal Course must 

 pass an entrance examination ; the subjects being — Japanese, 

 Zoology, Botany, Physics, Chemistry, Geography^ Mathematics, 

 English, and Drawing. 



The Academic Year beginning Sept. lotb, and ending July 

 lOth, consists of three terms. First Term: Sept. iith — Dec. 

 24th; Second Term: Jan. 8th — March 31st; Third Term: 

 April 1st — July loth. 



