Carlo Giuseppe Géné was an Italian

Italy

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 naturalist

Natural history

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 and author.

Géné was born at Turbigo

Turbigo

Turbigo is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km west of Milan, along the Naviglio Grande canal. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,486 and an area of 8.5 km²....

 in Lombardy

Lombardy

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 and studied at the University of Pavia

University of Pavia

The University of Pavia is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. It was founded in 1361 and is organized in 9 Faculties.-History:...

. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly entomology

Entomology

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. In 1828 he became an assistant lecturer in natural history at the university, and in the following year he traveled to Hungary

Hungary

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, returning with a collection of insect

Insect

Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

 specimens. Between 1833 and 1838 he made four trips to Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

 collecting insects.

In 1830 Géné succeeded Franco Andrea Bonelli

Franco Andrea Bonelli

Franco Andrea Bonelli was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.-Life:Very little is known about the early life of Bonelli: he was born in Cuneo and was interested from an early age in the fauna which surrounded him, making collecting trips, preparing specimens and noting his...

 as Professor of Zoology

Zoology

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 and director of the Royal Zoological Museum at Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 includes a picture of Généhttp://www.museounito.it/zoologia/storia/personaggi1.html. Most of his insect collection is in Turin Museum of Natural History

Turin Museum of Natural History

The Turin Museum of Natural History was established in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the University of Turin and other collections of naturali history, originated from specific research campaigns and donations...

. Duplicates are in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Milan and in Museo storia naturale di Pisa

Museo storia naturale di Pisa

Museo storia naturale di Pisa is an Italian natural history museum at Pisa. It is part of the University of Pisa and is now located in Pisa Charterhouse 10 km from the city of Pisa in the comune of Calci....

.

The Slender-billed Gull

Slender-billed Gull

The Slender-billed Gull, Chroicocephalus genei, is a mid-sized gull which breeds very locally around the Mediterranean and the north of the western Indian Ocean on islands and coastal lagoons. Most of the population is somewhat migratory, wintering further south to north Africa and India, and a...

 Larus genei was named after him.

Works

• A work on apiculture (1835)
• De quibusdam insectis Sardiniae novis aut minus cognitis. (1839)
• Dei pregiudizi popolari intorno agli animali (1869)