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...over an enormous territory, without railroad communication, without roads, and without even a national feeling or spirit. Her army numbered about 350,000 available men, poorly equipped and poorly drilled. Her navy consisted of 5 battleships, 9 harbor defence vessels, 56 cruisers, and 43 torpedo boats scattered along the coast. The Japanese have a population of only 41,000,000, with an available army only slightly smaller than the Chinese. Their navy consists entirely of cruisers, about 35 in number. The whole of Japan was ready to launch itself into the war as a concentrated mass with high velocity...
...Vascoda Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope while in search of a passage to India, and from this time colonies have slowly sprung up along the shore, especially on the Guinea coast, where the slave trade was largely carried on. From 1815 to 1875 a gradual awakening of interest took place in Europe, and since that time there has been an exciting race to see which nation should acquire most land. This sudden change was caused by the encouraging information which Stanley brought back from the interior...
...dealt unfairly with them. The first colony was planted in the south by the Portugese. After them the Italians appeared and now control a large amount of land near the Red Sea. Germany took no part in this contest till 1882, but she now has valuable possessions near the coast...
...systems of zoological stations, one in which the stations are connected with the different universities, the other of a more cosmopolitan character, offering opportunity for research to students of every kind coming from every portion of the world. Thirty years ago there was not a place on the sea coast where marine zoology could be studied, excepting in a private way. At present the most important stations are situated on the North Sea and on the Mediterranean...
...French stations are all connected in the same way with special universities. The Sarbonne has two stations, one off the west coast of Spain and another in the English Channel. The station at Marseilles is perhaps the most interesting, as it is situated right in a university town...