PROFESSOR TAKEMATU OKADA

foster-fathers, among whom we especially mention Prof. Kiyoo Nakamura, former Director of the Observatory, and Prof.Y※(サーカムフレックスアクセント付きU小文字)ji Wada, later Director of Zinsen Observatory in Korea. At that time the great majority of the students of physics cared little for meteorology and perhaps no one dreamed of the development of this branch of science in this country, a development reserved for future accomplishment by the hand of this young post-graduate in physics.

The tasks which were entrusted to him were the most difficult ones, --no less than those