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III. News

Program of the Kyoto University Scientific Expedition to the Sahara and the Surrounding Areas (KUSES) December 1967-March 1968

Introduction

For the past ten years, Kyoto University has carried out investigations in various fields of natural and cultural sciences in East Africa. On the basis of thus accumulated data, Kyoto University has now planned a scientific expedition to the Sahara and the surrounding areas as mentioned below. All the senior members are well experienced in respective fields as they have joined the previous expeditions

Members

(a) Senior Members

Kosuke YAMASHITA (Leader) : D. Ag., Professor, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Kyoto University, Botanist & Geneticist

Toichi ASAI : D. M., Director, Naniwa Hospital, Osaka, Surgeon

Sasuke NAKAO : D. Ag., Professor, Laboratory of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of Osaka Prefecture, Agronomist & Ethnobotanist

Tadao UMESAO : D. Sc., Assistant Professor, Research Institute for the Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, Social Anthropologist

Shigenobu KIMURA : Assistant Professor, Fine-Arts College of Kyoto City, Fine-Arts Historian

Yasuo OHASHI : Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Kyoto University, Linguist

Yuichi WADA : Assistant Professor, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Linguist

Sadao SAKAMOTO: D. Ag., Researcher, National Institute of Genetics, Botanist & Geneticist

Toshinao YONEYAMA : Assistant Professor, Konan University, Social Anthropologist

Yutaka TANI : Instructor, Research Institute for the Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, Historian

Junzo KAWATA : Assistant Professor, Saitama University, Cultural Anthropologist

Naomichi ISHIGE : Instructor, Research Institute for the Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, Cultural Anthropologist

Kuzo DOGURA : Member of the Society of African Studies. Kyoto University, Human Ecologist

(b) Student Members

Teruo OMOTO Kazuhisa EGUCHI Masaru AKASAKA
Katsuyoshi FUKUI Shigeto NISHIMURA Shuzo HASEGAWA

(c) Assistant Members

Kaori NISHIOKA Hideo NISHIGAYA Toshikazu FUKUDA
Rikuro SUGlYAMA Satoru KOBAYASHI Osamu KUMASEGAWA
Akira NAKAGAWA


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