Juha Kinnunen Finnish+Museum+of+Natural+History

Unioninkatu+44 Helsinki 00014 FI

+358-9-1911 jukinnun@mappi.helsinki.fi http://www.luomus.fi/ Hannu Saarenmaa Digitisation+Centre+of+the+Finnish+Museum+of+Natural+History+and+the+University+of+Eastern+Finland Project+Manager

L��nsikatu 15 Joensuu 80101 FI

+358-50-4779668 hannu.saarenmaa@uef.fi http://www.digitarium.fi/ 2011-09-12 eng Nylander Herbarium (H-NYL) is another major collection that is kept separate at the Botanical Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural History. It comprises about 52 000 specimens of lichens (and some other fungi) from all over the world and includes an abundance of type specimens. The collection was received from the Finnish (- French) lichenologist William Nylander (1822-1899). Initially, Nylander was a medical doctor, then chose a career as an entomologist and finally focused on botany and lichens. He was appointed as the first Professor of Botany at our university in 1857 (then Imperial Alexander University), but resigned in 1863 and relocated to Paris, where he continued as a freelance scientist. Nylander's lichenological publications comprise over 300 titles and 4 000 pages and he described approximately 3 000 lichen taxa. http://www.luomus.fi/english/botany/mycology/nylacoll/index.htm Worldwide -180 180 90 -90 Soili Stenroos Finnish+Museum+of+Natural+History Professor

Unioninkatu+44 Helsinki 00014 FI

+358-9-1911 soili.stenroos@helsinki.fi http://www.luomus.fi/ 2011-09-12T02:44:59.786+03:00 dataset http://db.digitarium.fi:8080/ipt/logo.do?r=nylander H- H-NYL Nylander dried b258e0d8-d282-4d84-898a-655c5375f645/v4.xml