Chiyomatsu Ishikawa
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Chiyomatsu Ishikawa (kanji:石川千代松) (1861-1935) was a Japanese biologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, and ichthyologist at the Naples Zoological Station starting 1887. He was responsible for disseminating Darwin's ideas on evolution in Japan. After graduating from Tokyo University, he studied in Germany under imminent evolutionary theorist August Weismann. He was also the 5th principal of the Dokkyo Middle School in Tokyo.