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is primarily intended for the use of the instructors and students of the University, but its facilities are extended as far as possible to other persons who are qualified to avail themselves of the opportunities of research here afforded. For the last two years a summer course in practical zoology has been given for the benefit of teachers of intermediate schools.

In the College of Agriculture the courses are Agriculture, Agricultural Chemistry, Forestry, and Veterinary Medicine.

The graduates of this college are entitled to call themselves Nogakushi (licentiate of agriculture), Ringakushi (licentiate of forestry), and Juigakushi (licentiate of veterinary medicine), according as they have taken one of the first two courses, the third course, or the last course. In the course of Veterinary Medicine the student has to undergo a graduation examination at the end of the third year instead of annual examinations in Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Surgery, Pathological Anatomy, Horse-shoeing (practical), and Hospital Practice and Ambulatory Clinics. The college is situated in one of the suburbs of the city, and occupies extensive grounds of about 138 acres. It is well provided with an experimental farm, a nursery, botanic garden, etc. The laboratories and museums are equipped with collections of apparatus, instruments, models, specimens, etc. A veterinary hospital of the college is open to the public. Extensive training forests in different parts of the country are also attached to the college. The college forest in Chiba Prefecture covers about an area of 2,171 cho (1 cho=2.4507 acres), and is divided into the Kiyosumi and the Okuzan Forest by the boundary-line of the provinces of Awa and Kazusa. This forest is intended to serve for the practical instruction in forestry and for the investigations undertaken by the professors and students in the Forestry Department of the college. It is hoped that it also may serve as a model of scientific forest management. The college forest in Hokkaido, established in October, 32nd year of Meiji, has an approximate area of some 23,000 cho. It is situated on the right bank of the upper course of the Sorachi River in Sorachi Gun, Ishikari Prefecture. It forms an almost perfect rectangle extending from west to east. Along the river and at the bottom of the valleys the forest consists almost exclusively of broad-leaved trees, whilst conifers are found more and more as we ascend, until these form almost a pure wood at the top. The whole forest has been left in a primeval state, the forester’s axe having never been used.