Monumenta Nipponica

Sometime ago I read two three-decade old articles on Monumenta Nipponica. They are:

Edward R. Beauchamp's "Griffis in Japan: The Fukui Interlude, 1871," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter, 1975), pp. 423-452. In 1870, "In the former [Yokohama], there were approximately 2,000 foreigners, half of them Westerns, half of them Western military and security forces, while Tokyo sheltered only 100 Westerners, including two or three women. (p. 427) and

Masuzo Ueno's "The Western Influence on Natural History in Japan," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 19, No. 3/4 (1964), pp. 315-339. "Another Englishman who co-operated with Blakiston in the study of Japanese birds was Henry J. S. Pryer (1850-1888). Born in London, Pryer came to Yokohama in 1871 to become a secretary in the firm of Adamson-Bell & Co., and remained there until his death in 1888. In his leisure time he devoted himself to the collecting of butterflies, on the basis of which hobby he published in 1886-1889 a book in three parts, Rhopalocera Nihonica, A Description of the Butterflies of Japan. [Yokohama: Printed at the office of the "Japan Mail;" published by the author]." (p. 334)