On the Relationship of The Journal of Japanese Botany Which Was Begun by Dr. Tomitaro Makino and the Activity of Plant Lovers’ Clubs

Abstract

Although he had already written many papers for the Botanical Magazine Tokyo, Dr. Tomitaro Makino began the periodical The Journal of Japanese Botany in 1916. Dr. Tomitaro Makino (1862–1957) was one of the pioneer botanists in Japan. He reported not only an enormous number of new plant species but also many of the understandable reports written in Japanese for the people who loved plants and established and assisted many Plant Lovers’ Clubs in many prefectures in Japan.