Rigaku Hakushi (Doctor of Philosophy ). 409 
aussi exacte dans aucun ouvrage Japonais. Mr. le Docteur 
Savatier a ecrit line preface pour ce livre, et il y fait a juste 
tit re un grand eloge du zele et du savoir du doyen des botanistes 
Japonais contemporains. Dans ce dernier travail de Mr. Ito 
Keiske, le nom scientifique figure en caracteres remains a la 
suite de la plupart des plantes qui y sont decrites. Esperons 
que le venerable savant vivra encore assez pour continuer et 
terminer cet ouvrage si interessant et si utile ’ (Geerts, loc . cit. 
P- 37 )- 
In 1877 he was made extraordinary Professor of Philosophy 
(science) in the Tokyo University, and appointed to a special 
post in connexion with the Botanical Gardens. In addition 
he undertook duty in relation to the Educational Museum. 
The same year he completed the first part of the Koishikawa 
Shokubutsti-en Somoku Mokuroku , and further instalments 
of the Nippon Sambusshi. 
In 1880 he became a Director of the Koishikawa Gardens, 
and published the second part of the Mokuroku. The next 
year he was made a Professor in the University. In collabora¬ 
tion with Kaku Hika, the brother of Kaku Saichiro, he 
published the first volume of the Koishikawa Shokubutsu-en 
Somoku Zusetsu, and in the following year the second volume 
appeared. In 1879 he had been elected a Fellow of the 
Tokyo Gakushi Kwai-in (Tokyo Academy of Learning). He 
afterwards published in the Journal of the Society an essay 
on the ‘ Rise and Course of Natural Science in Japan/ and a 
paper called Kwashi zakki (Botanical Notes). Other articles 
of his may be found in the Transactions of the Yoyosha 
(Society for promoting Culture, founded about 1872 by the 
well-known publicist, Fukuzawa and others). 
His ‘Edible Plants’ and ‘ Poisonous Plants’ were mentioned 
in the Kwampo (Official Gazette). In 1880 he received a 
silver medal from the Royal Academy of Stockholm, in 1881 
a second class medal from the International Geographical 
Congress at Venice, and in the same year he was elected 
a corresponding member of the N. China Branch of the Royal 
Asiatic Society. 
