Edvard August Vainio (1853 - 1929)
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Biography
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Selected publications
Biography
also spelled Wainio; also spelled Lang (!)
1870 studies at the university of Helsinki
1878 collecting trip to Lapland
1880 earns PhD, collecting trip to the Ural mountains
1880 - 1922 works at the university of Helsinki as docent for botany
1884 - 1885 collecting trip to Brazil
1922 appointed professor and director of the botanical gardens at the university of Turku, Finland
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Edvard August Vainio (1887) "Monographia Cladoniarum universalis: I." (Monograph of all the Cladonias.
This was issued under the name Wainio.) in Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 4 pp. 1 - 509
Edvard August Vainio (1894) "Monographia Cladoniarum universalis: II." (Monograph of all the Cladonias.
This was issued under the name Wainio.) in Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 10 pp. 1 - 499
Edvard August Vainio (1897) "Monographia Cladoniarum universalis: III." (Monograph of all the Cladonias.
This was issued under the name Wainio.) in Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 14 pp. 1 - 268
Edvard August Vainio (1909 - 1923) Lichenes insularum Philippinarum (The lichens of the Philippine islands) 4 vol.
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