Dun, E.

...The contributions of these people to agricultural science in the Meiji period cannot be overlooked, but at the same time, some of the foreigners invited to Japan also had a remarkable influence. These included O. Kellner, a German who followed in Liebig's footsteps, M. Fesca, a student of Liebig and Ther, O. Loew, and E. Dun, an American. They can be said to have inject an empirical and experimental spirit into traditional agricultural methods and agronomy, which were intuitive and empirical. Kellner had a great influence in the research fields of soil and fertilizer, plant nutrition, livestock breeding, agricultural production, and silkworm physiology, Fesca in the process of writing "Theories of Local Production in Japan," and Dun in the fields of livestock breeding, pasture introduction, crop rotation, grassland improvement, and the use of large machinery. ...

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…それらの人々の明治期農学への貢献は見落とせないが同時に招聘（しようへい）外人の中にも著しい影響を与えた人もいた。リービヒの流れをくむドイツ人O.ケルナーや，リービヒとテーアの弟子M.フェスカ，ロイブO.Loew，アメリカ人ダンE.Dunらで，在来農法･農学が直観的，経験的であったのに対して，実証的･実験的精神を注入したといってよい。ケルナーは土壌･肥料，植物栄養，家畜飼養，農産製造，蚕体生理の諸研究面において，フェスカは《日本地産論》などを著す過程において，ダンは畜種改良，牧草導入，輪作，草地改良，大型機械利用の各面において，大きな影響を与えた。…

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