TuyamaT

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Tuyama, Takasi

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

Born: 1910, Hiroshima-City, Hiroshima, Japan.

career:

Was educated in botany at Tokyo University, making a special study of the flora of the Bonin and Micronesian Islands. In 1939 he was appointed Assistant at the Botanical Institute of Tokyo University; in 1941 Member of the Research Institute for Natural Resources; 1943 D.Sc.; in 1950 Ass. Professor of Ochanomiza University and since 1952 Professor.

Collecting localities:

1943. Expedition in the ‘Vogelkop’, West New Guinea (Feb.-June). Collecting mainly in the lowland, at Manokwari (March and June), in the Prafi River District, also at Hattam, and in the Island of Japen (June).

collections:¹

Provisionally deposited in Herb. Res. Inst. Nat. Resources, Tokyo, numbered 566-1967; some dupl. in Herb. Nat. Sc. Mus. Tokyo [TNS]. According to the collector himself the material is rather poor and incomplete; the material in alcohol was practically lost by the bombardment of Tokyo. Specialists are working on special groups, and the results will eventually be published as Contribution 2 seq.¹

literature:

(1) S. Hattori: ‘On a small collection of Hepaticae from Dutch New Guinea’. Contrib. to the Tuyama 1943 Collection of Dutch New Guinea Plants No 1 (Bot. Mag. Tokyo 64, 1951, p. 112-119).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Tuyama, Takasi
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1910, Hiroshima-City, Hiroshima, Japan.
	career: Was educated in botany at Tokyo University, making a special study of the flora of the Bonin and Micronesian Islands. In 1939 he was appointed Assistant at the Botanical Institute of Tokyo University; in 1941 Member of the Research Institute for Natural Resources; 1943 D.Sc.; in 1950 Ass. Professor of Ochanomiza University and since 1952 Professor.
	Collecting localities: 1943. Expedition in the ‘Vogelkop’, West New Guinea (Feb.-June). Collecting mainly in the lowland, at Manokwari (March and June), in the Prafi River District, also at Hattam, and in the Island of Japen (June).
	collections:¹ Provisionally deposited in Herb. Res. Inst. Nat. Resources, Tokyo, numbered 566-1967; some dupl. in Herb. Nat. Sc. Mus. Tokyo [TNS]. According to the collector himself the material is rather poor and incomplete; the material in alcohol was practically lost by the bombardment of Tokyo. Specialists are working on special groups, and the results will eventually be published as Contribution 2 seq.¹
	literature: (1) S. Hattori: ‘On a small collection of Hepaticae from Dutch New Guinea’. Contrib. to the Tuyama 1943 Collection of Dutch New Guinea Plants No 1 (Bot. Mag. Tokyo 64, 1951, p. 112-119).