Article ID: CBB001321119

Return to Sender: Hydrozoa Collected by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in the 1930s and Studied in Brussels (2014)

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A small number of Hydrozoa specimens, collected by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in Sagami Bay in the 1930s, was re-discovered in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. The history of the collection is described here; part of it has been returned to the Showa Memorial Institute in Japan.Een klein aantal Hydrozoa specimens ingezameld door de Japanse Keizer Hirohito in de Baai van Sagami in de jaren 1930 werd gevonden op de schappen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen in Brussel. De geschiedenis van de collectie wordt hier beschreven; een deel ervan werd teruggestuurd naar het Showa Herdenkingsinstituut in Japan.

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Authors & Contributors
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Craig R. Macadam
Ian J. Mason
Hugh B. Feeley
Gregory March
Errol Fuller
Concepts
Collections
Collectors and collecting
Biological specimens
Specimens
Natural history
Specimen exchange
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Germany
China
India
Great Britain
Arctic regions
Institutions
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève
Maison Verreaux
East India Company (English)
Dalhousie University
Smithsonian Institution
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