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JAPAN BY THE JAPANESE
The College of Science.

The following eight subjects form the courses in the College of Science:

  1. Mathematics.
  2. Astronomy.
  3. Theoretical Physics.
  4. Experimental Physics.
  5. Zoology.
  6. Botany.
  7. Chemistry.
  8. Geology.

In addition to these courses of study, special lectures on seismology and anthropology, etc., are given in the College of Science for the students of other colleges, especially for the students of Civil Engineering and Architecture in the Engineering College, and for the students of History and Philology in the Literature College.

The student who has successfully passed one of these courses is permitted to call himself Rigakushi (licentiate of science).

The college is one of the least popular, the number of students being little over one-third of what it could accommodate. The laboratories attached to this college are well equipped with instruments, apparatus, etc., and much original work has been done, the account of which has been published in the fifteen volumes of the Journal of the College of Science, a periodical well known among specialists. The Zoological, Geological, and Anthropological Museums and Botanical Herbarium are provided with very good collections. The Tokyo Astronomical Observatory is a part of this college, and it publishes annals in the French language. The Botanical Garden of the University, situated about a mile north-west of the University, with an area of about 40 acres, is under the control of this college. Students of Botany, Entomology, and Pharmacy spend a portion of their time in it. The University is the birthplace of the science of seismology; in fact, before the investigation undertaken by our professors almost nothing was known about the precise nature, the mode of propagation, etc., of earthquakes, and no seismometer existed. In the short time of some twenty years the science has been created here by our professors. The Seismological Observatory attached to this college is perhaps the best-equipped one in the world, and much active work is done. The Marine Biological Station of the University is also a part of the College of Science, situated at the extremity of the peninsula jutting out between the Bay of Sagami and the Gulf of Tayko. The station has access to localities long famous as the home of some remarkable animal forms, and it has been for the last seventeen years the centre of researches in marine zoology in Japan. The station

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