HachisukaM

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

Hachisuka, Marquis Masauji

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1903, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 1953, Atami, Japan.

career:

Ornithologist who after school years in Japan, was educated at Cambridge University (1922-27), and returned home after several months of travel through the United States, Canada, and Hawaii. In later years he travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Korea, and China, and conducted an expedition to the Philippines in 1928-29.

Author of numerous articles and books on birds¹; Ph. of India, D.S. of the University of California and Hokkaido.

Collecting localities:

Some ferns specimens on Mt Apo, Mindanao (P.I.), in Feb. 1929.

collections:

Specimens in Herb. Brit. Mus. [BM].

It is possible that he collected ferns only. Evidently at least some phanerogams too.

literature:

(1) Cf. Tori 13, no 63, 1953, p. 8, 34-47.
(2) Cf. M. Hachisuka: ‘The Birds of the Phillippine Islands’ (London 1931). List of collected ferns (27) and phanerogams (19) on p. 71-73.

biographical data:

Memorial Number, Tori (Bull. Ornith. Soc. Japan) 13, no 63, 1953, p. 1-134, portr., incl. Engl. necrology on p. 6-8.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Hachisuka, Marquis Masauji
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1903, Tokyo, Japan. Died: 1953, Atami, Japan.
	career: Ornithologist who after school years in Japan, was educated at Cambridge University (1922-27), and returned home after several months of travel through the United States, Canada, and Hawaii. In later years he travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Korea, and China, and conducted an expedition to the Philippines in 1928-29. Author of numerous articles and books on birds¹; Ph. of India, D.S. of the University of California and Hokkaido.
	Collecting localities: Some ferns specimens on Mt Apo, Mindanao (P.I.), in Feb. 1929.
	collections: Specimens in Herb. Brit. Mus. [BM]. It is possible that he collected ferns only. Evidently at least some phanerogams too.
	literature: (1) Cf. Tori 13, no 63, 1953, p. 8, 34-47. (2) Cf. M. Hachisuka: ‘The Birds of the Phillippine Islands’ (London 1931). List of collected ferns (27) and phanerogams (19) on p. 71-73.
	biographical data: Memorial Number, Tori (Bull. Ornith. Soc. Japan) 13, no 63, 1953, p. 1-134, portr., incl. Engl. necrology on p. 6-8.