Giacomo Damiani
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Giacomo Damiani was an Italian
Italian people
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 icthyologist and ornithologist

Born into a wealthy family Giacomo Damianie graduated from the University of Genoa
University of Genoa
The University of Genoa is one of the largest universities in Italy.Located in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, the university was founded in 1471. It currently has about 40,000 students, 1,800 teaching and research staff and about 1,580 administrative staff.- Campus :The University of Genoa is...

 and became a teacher
Teacher
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 of
Natural Sciences in secondary schools. By the age of 20, in 1891 he was in contact with Enrico Giglioli
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist.Giglioli was born in London and first studied there. He obtained a degree in science at the University of Pisa in 1864 and started to teach zoology in Florence in 1869...

, the leading Italian ornithologist of the time, who was based at the museum in Florence. He was instrumental in assembling a zoological collection called “la collezione Elbana” at Villa San Martino :it:Villa di San Martino ] . Many of his specimens are in the La Specola
La Specola
Museum of Zoology and Natural History, best known as La Specola, is a museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name "Specola" means observatory, a reference to the astronomical observatory founded there in 1790...

 museum in Florence.

Works

partial list:
  • 1892 ‘Rondini e Rondoni’ (martins and swifts) Bollettino del Naturalista.
  • 1892 ‘Prima contribuzione alla ittiofauna del mare dell’Elba’ Bollettino del Naturalista Marine fish.
  • 1892 ‘Note ornitologiche dall’Elba the first of a series of papers with this title published during the next 20 years in the journal Avicula.
  • 1909. Su alcuni rari scombridi dell'isola Elba (1898–1908). Bollettino della Società Zoologica Italiana, Roma, ser. 2, 10, p. 106, 112, 113.
  • 1911. Sovra una Balaenoptera del novembre 1910 a Marciana Marina (Elba). Bollettino della Società Zoologica Italiana, Roma 1911:50-57.
  • 1912 with Conte Arrigoni degli Oddi
    Conte Arrigoni degli Oddi
    Conte Arrigoni degli Oddi , was an Italian ornithologist.-Publications:In 1926 following the introduction of a national game law in for Italy in 1923 Oddi wrote a report on bird protection. He is best known as the author of Ornitologia Italiana, con 586 figure intercalate nel testo e 36 tavole...

      E. Note sopra una raccolta di Uccelli dell'Arcipelago Toscano. Riv. ital. Orn. 1 (I s.): 241-261. Birds of the Tuscan Archipelago
    Tuscan Archipelago
    The Tuscan Archipelago is a chain of islands between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea, west of Tuscany, Italy.The archipelago contains the islands of Gorgona, Capraia, Elba , Pianosa, Montecristo, Giglio, and Giannutri; all of which are protected as part of the Tuscan Archipelago National...

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