PAOLO

See also:

• PAOLO SAVI (1798–1871)

SAVI (1798–1871)  , 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 (1811–1889) 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 .