Kichisaburo Yendc' 



( With Portrait) 



The death of Dr. Kichisaburo Yendo removes one of the foremost 

 investigators of Japanese marine botany, whose advancement owes 

 much to his life-long study. He was born August 30, 1874, at 

 Tsuiji-mura, in the province of Echigo. He received his preliminary 

 education in the Second High School in Sendai. In 1898 he entered 

 the College of Science, Imperial Uni- 

 versity of Tokyo, where he graduated 

 in botany in 1901, with a thesis on 

 the Japanese Coralliuae, which was 

 afterwards published in the Journal 

 of the College of Science under the 

 title, "Corallinae verae Japonicae". 

 In the same college he pursued for 

 some years his post-graduate work 

 on algology. 



In 1907 he was appointed pro- 

 fessor in marine botany at the 

 Hokkaido Imperial University (for- 

 merly Sapporo Agricultural College, 

 Tohoku Imperial University), and in 

 the following year, he received the 

 degree of "Rigaku-Hakushi" (Doctor 

 of Science). For next few years he 



was found busily engaged both in research and in teaching work 

 until he was obliged, in 1919, to withdraw from active service on 

 account of his ill health, which was then felt imminent to require 

 special care. He died in the University hospital at Sendai on March 

 14, at the age of forty six, and the burial took place at Hakodate 

 on 20th. of same month. 



Dr. Yendo was not only an ardent investigator but also an 

 indefatigable collector. He botanized along the coast of almost all 



* Editors are indebted to Professors S. Ito and K. Okamtoa and also to Mr. I. 

 Nagai for their kind assistance in preparation of this obituary. 



