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Giovanni Prevozio (Prevot) (1616-1631) 
. Giovanni Rhodio (suddenly resigned) (1631) 
. Alpino Alpini (1631-1637 
Giovanni Veslingio (Wesling) (1638-1649) 
Giorgio Dalla Torre (1649-1681) 
10. Jacopo Pighi (1681-1683) 
11. Felice Viali (1683-1719) 
12. Giulio Pontedera (1719-1757) 
13. Pietro Arduino (Acting) (1757-1760) 
14. Giovanni Marsili (1760-1794) 
15. Giuseppe Antonio Bonato (1794-1835) 
16. Roberto De Visiani (1836-1878) 
17. Pier’ Andrea Saccardo (1878-1915) 
18. Augusto Béguinot, acting (March 1, 1916—Oct. 15, 1921) 
19. Giuseppe Gola (Oct. 16, 1920- ) 
Open free daily. Source of income: Municipal appropriations. 
Library: More than 15,000 volumes. Founded in 1770 by Gio- 
vanni Marsili. Contains one of the la argest known aoilecions of 
portraits of botanists (more than 600), begun by De Visiani and 
continued by Saccardo. Includes Saccardo’s personal mycological 
library of 300 volumes and some 2400 pamphlets. erbarium: 
Initiated at the beginning of the 19th century by Bonato. 1. Gen- 
eral, more than 60,000 specimens; 2. Dalmatian flora, 10,000; 3. 
Saccardo’s personal phanerogamic herbarium, more than 10, 000 
specimens representing more than 3500 species; 4. Cryptogamic, 
comprising the personal herbarium of Saccardo of more than 
16,000 specimens. 4 ffiliation: University of Padua. Publication: 
Semina, Sporae, Bulbi, et Tuberi quae Hortus Botanicus Patavinus 
Pro Mutua Commutatione Offert. Note: Bonafede is said to have 
had a garden of simples at Padua as early as 1533, which was 
financed by the Venetian Senate. Instruction “of students began 
there in 1540. The present Garden is nearly surrounded by the 
Alicorno Canal which, since 1575, has supplied water for irrigation 
and for some seventeen fountains. 
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PALERMO: ()) 
Orto BoTranico DELLA R. UNIVERSITA 
Via Lincoln 
Established: 1779 
Directors: 
1. Giuseppe Tineo-Ragusa (Porta Carini) (1779-1789) 
