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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Lafcadio Hearn, William S. Clark, William Elliot Griffis, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Debito Arudou, Assistant Language Teacher, JET Programme, John Milne, James Alfred Ewing, Edward S. Morse, Horace Capron, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Francis Brinkley, Leonce Verny, Jules Brunet, Richard Henry Brunton, Cargill Gilston Knott, James Murdoch, Jakob Meckel, Heinrich Edmund Naumann, Ernest Fenollosa, John Alexander Low Waddell, Edoardo Chiossone, Guido Verbeck, William Gowland, Josiah Conder, Vincenzo Ragusa, Otfried Nippold, Max Fesca, Benjamin Smith Lyman, Henry Dyer, John Henry Wigmore, Charles Otis Whitman, Ludwig Riess, Curt Netto, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Raphael von Koeber, William Edward Ayrton, Erwin Balz, Georg Michaelis, James Summers, Oscar Loew, Julius Scriba, Edwin Dun, Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, Alice Mabel Bacon, Edward Bramwell Clarke, Rudolf Dittrich, Thomas Lomar Gray, John Perry, Antonio Fontanesi, David Murray, Georges Ferdinand Bigot, George Adams Leland, Gustave Emile Boissonade, Charles Dickinson West, Luther Whiting Mason, Heinrich Waentig, Viktor Holtz, Henry Smith Munroe, William Willis, Leroy Lansing Janes, Marion McCarrell Scott, Theodor Sternberg, Horace Wilson, Oskar Kellner, Johannes Ludwig Janson, Sugawara no Kiyotomo. Excerpt: William Smith Clark (July 31, 1826 - March 9, 1886) was a professor of chemistry, botany and zoology, a colonel during the American Civil War, founder and first functioning president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst) and president of Sapporo Agricultural College in Japan (now Hokkaido University). Raised and schooled in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and obtained a doctorate in chemistry from Georgia Augusta University ...