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The venerable Colizzi is famed, not only for his voluminous 
work on Natural LaAv, but also for his profound knowledge 
of science, and especially of Chemistry. Besides her public 
collections, Perugia shows, with pride, the ornithological one of 
the Marchese Orazio Antinori. Ascoli deserves to be recorded 
for Or sink and his collections. The same may be said of Sini- 
gagli, for Procaccini Ricci and his collection of fossils of every 
class, among which it most concerns us to mention the Fish. 
The Universities of J^lacerata, of Urbino, and of Ferrara, have 
also cause for bo^^ting in regard to natural science. The 
learned Felsina, with her rich collections, her chairs from 
which such profound instruction is given, has her Annali delle 
Scienze^ abounding with select matter, and her Atti delVAc- 
cademia. I will only mention, not to be prolix, the excellent 
treatise of Professor Alessandrini on the Branchia of Fish, 
and especially that on the Heterohranclius^ of which I am 
surprised that Valenciennes has not availed himself. 
Modena, centre of the Italian Society, the birth-place of an 
Amici, the abode of a Marianini, has beheld the publication of 
the first volume of the Storia Naturale degli Stati Estensi^ 
by our colleague. Professor Brignole. 
Parma, in whose praise it is sufficient to mention, that 
second Esciilapius, Professor Tommasini, an honour of which 
she has deprived our own Bologna (which boasted of having 
given him a chair), is also proud of Professor Jan, versed in 
all the branches of natural science, and long known for his 
researches made in combination Avith the zealous Decristofori. 
Lucca offers some respectable collections in the royal palace 
of the Duke. The Zoological Museum of Pisa, in regard of 
the abundance and beauty of the preparations, and especially 
of the manner in which it is arranged, deserves to be cited as 
a model to Florence herself, if not to all Europe; This fine 
establishment is owing to the care of the truly zealous Paolo 
Savi, who foiAvards in every way the munificent views of his 
sovereign, and Avho every day strengthens his claims on the 
Grand Duke’s liberality toAvards this institution, and on the 
gratitude not of Tuscany only but of all Italy. He is already 
sufficiently knoAvn to the scientific Avorld for his extensive 
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