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Japan's Wild Scientific Genius: Minakata Kumagusu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Roger Pulvers
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The scientific term Minakatella longifolia G. Lister may be known only to biologists, but behind the story of this slime mold—and of how specimens came to be kept at the Natural History Museum in London—is the life of one of the most fascinating men of Japan's modern era: Minakata Kumagusu.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , e15
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