Charles Isidore Douin Explained

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Charles Isidore Douin (1858  - 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.^[1]

Biography

He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906).^[2]

The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928.^{[3] [4]}

References

• Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.

Notes and References

1. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187055.html Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=VaGLtwAACAAJ Google Books
3. http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/V3/ScapDouinia.htm BFNA_ProvPubl
4. Web site: Douinia (C.N.Jensen) H.Buch . www.gbif.org . 23 February 2021 . en.