A Historical Study of the Relationship between Sapporo Agricultural College and the Ainu Ethnology.

在本研究中，研究者就札幌农学院在形成阿伊努人民族学中的作用进行了研究，结果如下。札幌农学院为形成阿伊努人民族学提供了一个很好的场地，因为该学院的毕业生对阿伊努人非常感兴趣，尽管他们实际上为博物馆贡献了一些阿伊努人的材料。在札幌农学院，尽管第一任校长W·S·克拉克宣扬基督教教义，但在进化论的盛行下，仍有一种积极讨论民族学和现代民族发展的趋势。人们认为，阿伊努人的“原始人”形象是在进化论的指导下形成的。Ainu民族学的先驱、动物学家Saburou Hatta博士打算以进化论为基础，以其动物学著作为基础，研究动物学和民族学。据推测，他受到了动物学家、帝国大学教授、Hatta的老师Kakichi Mitsukuri博士的影响，这也受到了H·斯宾塞和E·S·莫尔斯的进化论的影响。因此，笔者强调，在进化论的盛行和明治时期有关爱奴的讨论中，札幌农学院对爱奴民族学的形成起到了重要的作用。此外，哈塔博士进入该学院是另一个重要因素。

In this study, the investigator obtained the results on the role of Sapporo Agricultural College for the formation of Ainu ethnology, as follows.1. Sapporo Agricultural College provided a good ground to form the Ainu ethnology, as the graduate of that was very interested in Ainu, although they actually contributed a few Ainu materials to the museum.2. In Sapporo Agricultural College, there was a trend to discuss actively about the ethnology and the development of modern nation, under the popularity of the theory of evolution, in spite of the fact that W. S. Clark, the first president of that college, preached Christian doctrines. It is assumed that the image of Ainu as "primitive people", that many people had, was formed under the theory of evolution.3. Dr. Saburou Hatta, zoologist and a pioneer of Ainu ethnology, had an intention of studying the anthlopology and the ethnology on the basis of the theory of evolution, on his zoological writings. It is presumed that he was influenced by Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri, zoologist, professor of Imperial University, and Hatta's teacher, that was also greatly influenced by the theory of evolution, that H. Spencer and E. S. Morse advanced.4. Therfore the investigator emphasizes that Sapporo Agricultural College had an important role for the formation of Ainu ethnology under the popularity of the theory of evolution and the topics about Ainu, in the Meiji period. In addition, Dr. Hatta's arrival to that college was another important factor of that.