Napoleone Pini (1835,
Milan
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22 March 1907, Milan) was an
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and
palaeontologist
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Biography
Napoleone Pini was born into an aristocratic family. He was an accountant. In 1872 he became a member of the Società Entomologica Italiana. In 1873 he was appointed member of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano. In this Society he was Secretary since 1878. He was also a member of the Società Malacologica Italiana (1875-1895).
The terrestrial molluscs were always his main interest. He specially studied the slugs of Lombardy. He wrote 17 works of
malacology
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, in addition to a report on the ''
Phylloxera
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'', the description of ''
Cychrus cylindricollis'', ''
Acme elegantissima
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'' and the collection of specimen for anatomical studies on ''
Limax doriae''.
Pini's mollusc collections were destroyed when Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano was damaged in 1943 by Allied bombings. His
Coleoptera
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collections are held by
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova
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, while a collection of 100 series of molluscs from southern Italy is held by
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Works
*Pini, N., 1871
Descrizione di un nuovo carabico appartenente al genere Cychrus Fabr.Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 14, p. 224-227
*Pini, N., 1874
Sopra una nuova Campylaea del gruppo della Helix cingulata Studer Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 17, p. 41-54
*Pini, N., 1874
Osservazioni critiche alle osservazioni e rettifiche del Prof. P. StrobelAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat 17, p. 421-431
*Pini, N., 1875
Clausilia Spreafici Pini Bull. Soc. Mal. It. 1, p. 164-165.
*Pini, N., 1876
Molluschi terrestri e d'acqua dolce viventi nel territorio d'EsinoBull. Soc. Mal. It. 2, 67-206, 2 tavv.
*Pini, N., 1876 -
Notizie malacologiche relative alla fauna lombardaAtti Soc. It. Sc. nat. 19, p. 493-499
*Pini, N., 1878
Nuove specie o forme poco note di Molluschi. Contribuzione alla Fauna malacologica d'ItaliaAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 21, p. 612-628.
*Pini, N., 1878
Contribuzione alla fauna fossile postpliocenica della LombardiaAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 21, p. 774-779
*Pini, N., 1879
Appunti malacologici. Sopra alcune forme di conchiglie italiane pubblicate come nuove specie nel Vol. V del Bullettino della Società Malacologica ItalianaAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 22, p. 156-175
*Pini, N., 1879
Relazione annuale della Commissione di sorveglianza contro la Fillossera, sul servizio delle vedette nell'anno 1879 Atti Soc. It. Sc. nat. XXII, 337.
*Pini, N., 1879
Argomentazioni di Napoleone Pini sulle due parole del Dott. Carlo De Stefani intorno ad alcune Clausilie toscaneBull. Soc. Mal. It. 5, 237-261.
*Pini, N., 1883 -
Nuova contribuzione alla fauna fossile postpliocenica della LombardiaAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 48-70
*Pini, N., 1883
Nuove forme di Clausilie italianeAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 137 - 143
*Pini, N., 1883
Un po' di luce sulla Hyalina obscurata Porro Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 26, p. 389-404
*Pini, N., 1884
Note malacologiche sulla fauna italiana Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 79 - 87
*Pini, N. 1884
Novità malacologicheAtti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 230-256)
*Pini, N., 1884 - Novità malacologiche. 2a Nota. Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 27, p. 368-382, tav. 12]
*Pini, N. 1885
Due nuove forme di Helix italiane del gruppo della Variabilis Drap. Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 28, p. 165-168
*Pini, N., 1886 - Nuova forma di Acme italiana (Acme elegantissima Pini) - Atti Soc. It. Sc. Nat. 29, p. 521-522
References
* Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data.Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382.
* Eugenio Bettoni, Prodromi della faunistica Bresciana, Appollonio, 1884.
* Cianfanelli and Manganelli - "A bibliography of Marianna Paulucci"
External links
''Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali''at
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Italian zoologists
Italian entomologists
1835 births
1907 deaths