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into Kwikò* in Japan." The following species were enumerated: 

 Mülleria mauritiana, Quoy et Gaini., M. rarians, Sel., M. miliari*, Q. 

 et G., M. lecanora, Jag., M. formosa, Sel., il/, nobili*, Sel., il/, sp., C7w- 

 atmaria japonica, Semp., Stichopus japonicus. Sel., .S7. sp., Holothiiria 

 monacarla, Less., H. decorata, v. Maren/, ff. temi issi ma , Semp., and 

 H.fusco-cinerea, Jag. 



The New Imperiai University of Kyoto. - By the [ìnperial Ordi- 

 nance, No. 209, of Jane 18, a New Imperiai University has heen incor- 

 porated in Kyoto, with ninety professorships, forty-one assistant-professor- 

 ships, and a provision for ninety assistants (Imperial Ordinance, No. 210). 

 It is to consist of the four affiliated Colleges of Jurisprudence, Medicine,, 

 Literature, and Science and Technology. Only the College of Science 

 and Technology will be opened next fall, and the chairs for it has been 

 ordained to be twenty-one, distributed as follows : Mathematics 2, 

 Physics 3, Chemistry 4, Civil Engineering 3, Mechanical Engineering 

 3, Electrical Engineering 2, Mining 2, Metallurgy 2. We thus see that 

 the department of pure Natural History has been wholly left out ; but 

 we hope that this anomalous state of things will be but temporary, due 

 entirely to financial deficiencies. We have every reason to believe that 

 in a near future all - % the principal branches of modern science, whether 

 pure or applied, will be fully represented by an adequate number of 

 chairs ; and we would suggest that when our science should be represent- 

 ed in the New University, a fresh water station on Lake Biwa would be 

 a very fitting adjunct calculated no doubt to contribute much to the 

 collecting of valuable informations as to the biological conditions of large 

 bodies of fresh water, on which so much excellent work is being done 

 both in Europe and America. 



Dried holothuriäis used for food. 



Printed at the "Tokïo Printing Co., Ln." Tokyo, Japan. 



