Taihoku Imperial University 
HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTE 
TAIWAN, JAPAN 
September ig, 1936 
Mr. R. E. Holttura, Director, 
Botanic Garden, 
Singapore. 
Sir: • 
I have the pleasure of introducing 
Mr. Syun*iti SASAKI, Government Botanist and ExtrarRegular Member 
of our University, who is visiting India, Ceylon, Malaya and Java, 
on the mission ot study Foresty Botany and Economic Products of 
the tropical countries. 
Mr. Sasaki is the author of many botanical articles and 
has contributed a major part of Late Prof. Hayota*s extensive 
floras of this island. He is now connected with-the Forest 
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Bureau and Forestry Experiment Station of Formosan Government, and 
is also helping us in Fhamaceutical Botany. 
I greatly appreciate if you will kindly help him by 
offering an opportunity to study the subject he is interested. 
I take this oppurtunity to thank you most cordially for your kind 
assistance offered for me during my visit last winter. 
Very sincerely yours, 
Prof. TySzaburo Tanaka, 
Taihoku Imperial University, 
Taihoku, Formosa, Japan. 
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