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factures. In the next year he was rewarded with five pieces 
of silver on account of his diligence in promulgating vaccina¬ 
tion. In 1863 von Siebold returned to Japan and settled at 
Yokohama, where the Bakufu sent Ito Keisuke to report upon 
the subject of natural science. Herr von Siebold was delighted 
to see his old friend again. The same year Ito Keisuke was 
obliged, through ill-health, to resign his office in the Ban - 
shochosho , and returned to his native town. At this time 
cholera ( bosha ) was ravaging the country, and he issued 
a small handbook of precautionary measures which was 
widely circulated. In 1865 the Daimyo appointed him his 
family physician. After the Restoration, in 3rd Meiji (1870), 
he was nominated an official by the new Government, and was 
summoned to the capital to be created a member of the 
University, with the degree of sho hakushi [sort of licencit h- 
sciences]. 
In 1871 he was given a professorial appointment under the 
Ministry of Education. He afterwards became Deputy 
Assistant Compiler ( henshu gonnosukt ), and in 1872 received 
7th class rank, being specially employed in the section of 
Natural Science. He was appointed Compiler (. Henshukwa ) 
in 1873. He was now busy with his Nippon Sambusshi , of 
which he officially published six parts, dealing with the 
provinces of Yamashiro, Musashi, and Omi. In 1874 he gave 
to the world the first part of the Herbs section of the Nippon 
Shokubutsu Zusetsu —Illustrated Japanese Flora—the pre¬ 
paration of which had occupied him during many years. His 
son, who had previously written on Pharmacy and Elementary 
Botany, compiled the index. Professor Geerts thus refers to 
the work:— c Mais il nous faut surtout parler du dernier ouvrage 
que vient de publier, malgre son grand age, Mr. Ito Keiske, 
en collaboration cette fois avec son fils, Mr. Ito Udzuru. 
C’est le Ni-honshoku-butsu-dzuye , ou Description des plantes 
Japonaises encore inconnues. Dans le premier volume de cet 
ouvrage, publie en 1874, Mr. Ito Keiske a decrit et dessine 
environ une cinquantaine de plantes nouvelles decouvertes par 
lui. Ces plantes n’avaient ete determinees d’une maniere 
