Edvard August Vainio     (1853 - 1929)


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Biography
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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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