The Days of a Man D900 



The summer of this year was marked by two out- 

 standing features — the most interesting and instruc- 

 tive of all my scientific excursions, and the most cruel 

 personal calamity we have ever experienced, the 

 sudden death just before my return home of our 

 beloved daughter Barbara. The first was my ex- 

 ploration of Japan, made possible by Mr. Hopkins, 

 who again came generously to my aid by arranging 

 to send Snyder with me as associate. 

 Fishing in In the course of the summer we visited every 

 ja-pan promising stream and fishing station from Nagasaki 

 and Obama on the island of Kyushyu in the south to 

 Mororan and Otaru in the northern island of Hok- 

 kaido. In many of these places white men were 

 almost unknown, as it was only a few weeks after the 

 abolition of the passport system, which immediately 

 followed the turning over by the Powers to Japanese 

 jurisdiction of the foreign concessions in the "Treaty 

 Ports" — Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hakodate, 

 and Niigata. 



As a result ot our work we brought home about one 

 thousand species, nearly two hundred of them new to 

 science — a mass larger than all previous collections 

 put together and forming the material for numerous 

 papers by myself and my colleagues. 



In all our operations we had the thorough sympa- 

 thy and unfailing help of Dr. Mitsukuri, one of my 

 associates in the Fur Seal Investigation, and the 

 ablest of Japanese men of science.^ Referring to the 

 torii, or Shinto temple gates placed before forests 

 which must not be felled, Mitsukuri said that "it 



See Vol. I, Chapter xxiii, pages 602 and 605 



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