1929
At the suggestion of the rector of the University of Taiwan I gave a lecture in English about the origin of cultivated plants. The audience of professors and students displayed an extraordinary interest and from their questions it was possible to judge that the gist of the lecture had been understood.
At the trial station for fruit growing at Taihoku, Formosa. In the pots you can see experiments with pineapples. In the foreground are Dr Tanaka and the station director Dr Suzota. Taiwan, 1929
In the waiting room at the railroad station almost the entire university staff assembled. At the same time as I was leaving for Korea, a professor of geology was leaving for a 3-year-long mission to Europe and America on behalf of the university. His itinerary covered three quarters of the world. Together with him I studied the plan for his mission, which would be the envy of any geologist of world renown. The preparation of students, utilizing all the research in the world, is given exceptional importance in Japan. Such missions are not unique but common, a normal event in university life there.
After reaching the harbour, I went by sea from Taiwan to the peninsula of Korea.
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