Case studies on the technology transfers brought by Foreign Employees in the field of agriculuture and livestock industry with emphasis on decipherment and transcription of original documents.

对与发展委员会外籍雇员(Ytoi)有关的文件(官方报告和私人信件)进行了档案研究。这些文件主要由北海道大学图书馆北方档案馆、北海道县档案馆、马萨诸塞州大学图书馆档案馆、日本外务省档案馆、Dun和Machimura纪念基金会以及俄亥俄州历史学会拥有。与E.Dun，L.Boehmer，W.S.Clark，W.Wheeler，S.C.Browne，N.W.Holt，J.O.Irwin，E.M.Shelton，T.W.Taylor有关的文件被转录并公布，如本表格第3页和第4页“参考”部分所列。他拥有的北海道大学图书馆北方档案馆、北海道县档案馆和日本外务省档案馆拥有的几乎所有报告和信件都被破译和转录。在…中除了Dun和Machimura纪念基金会拥有的Dun在日本近半个世纪的回忆手稿外，还分别从俄亥俄州哥伦布市的Allen T.Sinks先生和美国农业部图书馆以复印和缩微胶片的形式获得了两种不同的手稿版本。通过仔细比较这些不同的版本，编撰了一个编辑版本。除了威廉·惠勒的官方报告和给发展委员会的信件外，还对威廉·惠勒的信件进行了解密和转录。尽管已经对与H·卡普隆和W·P·布鲁克斯有关的文件进行了粗略的解读和转录，但还需要进一步的审查才能出版。关于斯托克布里奇的相关文献还没有整理出来。当申请这项拨款时，日本的文献不在研究范围之内，但随着研究的进展，它们的重要性开始被认识到。一些与Dun和Boehmer有关的日本文件正在被破译和转录，并附有注释。较少

Archival research was conducted on the documents (official reports and personal letters) related to the Foreign Employees (Yatoi) of the Development Commission (Kaitakushi). These documents are mainly possessed by the Northern Archives of Hokkaido University Library, the Hokkaido Prefecture Archives, the Archives of the University of Massachusetts Library, the Archives of Japanese Foreign Ministry, Dun and Machimura Memorial Foundation, and Ohio Historical Society. The documents related to E. Dun, L. Boehmer, W. S. Clark, W. Wheeler, S. C. Browne, N. W. Holt, J. O. Irwin, E. M. Shelton, T. W. Taylor were transcribed and published as are listed in the section of "REFERENCES" on pages 3 and 4 of this form.Most detailed data has been collected about Edwin Dun. Almost all of his reports and letters in the possession of the Northern Archives of Hokkaido University Library, the Hokkaido Prefecture Archives, and the Archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry were deciphered and transcribed. In … More addition to the manuscripts of Dun's Reminiscences of Nearly Half a Century in Japan in the possession of Dun and Machimura Memorial Foundation, two different manuscript versions were obtained from Mr. Allen T. Sinks in Columbus, Ohio, and the United States Agricultural Department Library in the forms of photocopy and microfilm respectively. By carefully comparing these different versions, an edited version was compiled.William Wheeler's letters possessed by the Archives of the University of Massachusetts Library were deciphered and transcribed in addition to his official reports and letters to the Development Commission.Though a rough decipherment and transcription of the documents related to H. Capron and W. P. Brooks has been done, a further scrutiny is needed in order to be published. The documents related to H. E. Stockbridge have not been toutched upon yet.When the application for this grant was made, the Japanese documents were out of research scope, but as the research progressed, their importance came to be recognized. Some of the Japanese documents related to Dun and Boehmer are being deciphered and transcribed with annotation. Less