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Excerpt from Imperial Geological Survey of Japan: With a Catalogue of Articles and Analytical Results of the Specimens of Soils Exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Held at St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America in 1904
The first geological examination of Japan (exclusive of the Hokkaido, Ryfikyt't and Taiwan)' was made by mr. T. Wada, in 1878, under the Geographical Bureau (g/rz'ri-kj/okuwl' the Home Department. The provinces of Kai and Izu being then mapped out. At the end of the same year, dr. Edmund naumann, then Professor of Geology in the Tokyo University, advised the esta blishment of a systematic geological survey of the Empire, and submitted a plan for the same to the Minister of the Home Department. In May 1879, that plan was adopted, and the present Imperial Geological Survey was organised and placed under the direction of dr. E. Naumann. As much time was spent in making the necessary preparations, the survey itself was not begun till the following year. In 188t, the Government established the Department of Agriculture and Commerce and transferred to it the direction and work of the Geological Survey as a section of its Agricultural Bureau; but in 1882, the Geological Survey was made independent of this Bureau, under the name of (geological Survey). It was now felt, in the interests of industries rapidly developing in the Empire, that, as far as possible, the investigations carried out under the Survey should be directed to matters promising to be of practical importance, such as the examination of ore deposits.
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