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NOTES UPON THE ZOOLOGICAL MEETING 

 OF PAVIA. 



By Count Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi. 



Two months ago a Committee, composed of the most illustrious 

 Italian zoologists, invited their colleagues to a meeting which 

 was to be held at Pavia on the 22nd and 23rd of April, 1900. 

 The purpose of this meeting was to found a "National Zoo- 

 logical Union," and to facilitate and make possible an Annual 

 Congress of Naturalists, which could only be done by long pre- 

 paration. Amongst the subscribers may be mentioned the 

 following University Professors : — Camerano (Turin), Cattaneo 

 and Parona (Genoa), Emery (Bologna), Pavesi and Maggi 

 (Pavia), Giglioli (Florence), Monticelli (Naples), and some 

 others. 



Many Italian zoologists approved of so useful and opportune 

 an intention, and at the opening of the meeting in the Municipal 

 Hall of Pavia several were present. 



The President in the chair was Prof. P. Pavesi, a man dear 

 to science and his friends, who is at the same time an illustrious 

 naturalist, an appreciated politician, and now Mayor of Pavia. 

 He warmly welcomed all those present, and stated he was pleased 

 that the beginning of this Union should take place at Pavia. 

 After the vino d'onore, Prof. Emery, of Bologna, thanked Pavesi 

 for his kind welcome, and added some other opportune phrases. 

 The first meeting took place at one o'clock in the Anatomical 

 Hall, in order to decide if it would be useful to have a "Zoo- 

 logical Union " in Italy, and in this case to establish a scheme 

 of statutes, and to name a temporary Committee. This meeting 

 was presided over by Prof. Pavesi, having as a Secretary 

 Miss Rina Monti, a young and clever naturalist. About forty 

 persons were present, and amongst them I am pleased to mention 

 Emery, Parona, Cattaneo, Maria Sacchi, Andres, Maggi, Mar- 



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