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SAVI, PAOLO (17981871)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 242 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SAVI, PAOLO (17981871) , Italian geologist, was born at Pisa. Assistant-lecturer on
zoology
  at the university of his native city when twenty-two years of age, he was appointed professor in 1823, and lectured also on
geology
 . He devoted
great
  attention to the museum of the university, and formed one of the finest natural history collections in Europe. He was regarded as the father of Italian
geology
 . His first
paper
  related to the Bone-caves of
Cassano
  (1825). He studied the geology of Monte Pisano and the Apuan Alps, explaining the metamorphic origin of the
Carrara
 
marble
 ; he also contributed essays on the Miocene strata and fossils of Monte Bambolo, the
iron
 -ores of
Elba
  and other subjects. With Giuseppe Meneghini (18111889) he published memoirs on the stratigraphy and geology of Tuscany (1850-1851). He became eminent also as an ornithologist, and was author of a
great
 
work
  on the birds of Italy. He died in May 1871.


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