the Hokkaido wolf to extinction by 1895.He was a close friend, and eventually brother-in-law, of the explorer and naturalist Thomas Blakiston.

United States envoy to Japan

After a visit to the United States in 1883-84, Dun was appointed the Second Secretary of the American Legation in Tokyo. In October 1883, Mrs. Dun (Tsuru) died. Dun considered resigning but at the end of the year married again, to a woman named Yama Takahira. Dun was later promoted

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