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SAVI, PAOLO (1798–1871)

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SAVI, See also:PAOLO (1798–1871) , See also:Italian geologist, was See also:born at See also:Pisa. Assistant-lecturer on See also:zoology at the university of his native See also:city when twenty-two years of See also:age, he was appointed See also:professor in 1823, and lectured also on See also:geology. He devoted See also:great See also:attention to the museum of the university, and formed one of the finest natural See also:history collections in See also:Europe. He was regarded as the See also:father of Italian geology. His first See also:paper related to the See also:Bone-caves of See also:Cassano (1825). He studied the geology of See also:Monte See also:Pisano and the Apuan See also:Alps, explaining the metamorphic origin of the See also:Carrara See also:marble; he also contributed essays on the See also:Miocene strata and fossils of Monte Bambolo, the See also:iron-ores of See also:Elba and other subjects. With Giuseppe Meneghini (1811–1889) he published See also:memoirs on the stratigraphy and geology of See also:Tuscany (1850-1851). He became eminent also as an ornithologist, and was author of a great See also:work on the birds of See also:Italy. He died in May 1871.

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