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Buczkó, Krisztina: The diatom collection of László Vida
sampling location, together with their frequency. The slides may serve as good comparative material for a critical revision of the diatom flora. The collection and the reports are available for study in the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. LÁSZLÓ VIDA was born in 1932. He had worked as an engineer in Győr all his life. Botany, the love and the knowledge of plants accompanied him through his life. He was in close contact with many great botanists of his time, and took part in collecting tours with them. Among others, he was in personal contact with S. JÁVORKA, V. CSAPODY, T. PÔCS A. BORHIDI and G. FEKETE. He discovered new localities of several taxa interesting and rare in the Hungarian flora. His interest turned to algology in the beginning of the 1970's. He became acquainted with E. KOL, one of the greatest Hungarian algologists. They worked together in very close cooperation for several years. He started to study systematically the diatom flora of waters close to his home (Danube, Pándzsa, Rába, Rábca, Marcal) (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 A map of the sampling localities from North-West Hungary (1= Győrzámoly, 2= Győrladamér, 3= Vámosszabadi, 4= Lipót, 5= Fertőrákos, 6= Sopron, 7= Velem, 8= Szombathely) Soon he contacted the Bakony Natural History Museum, from where he received assistance in obtaining equipments and materials for his research. He studied the diatoms of the Bakony mountains, first material collected by himself and later also that of E. KOL. Later he collected in other areas of Hungary, moreover he also elaborated samples from abroad (Fig. 1). Unfortunately, almost all of his results have remained unpublished. Only 3 algological papers of his have been published, in which, he described 2 taxa new to science: Stauroneis minuscula and Navicula cryptocephala var. minima . He died on 9th June, 1985, due to a tick-bite suffered on a collecting trip in the Bakony Mountains.
