Francisco Minà Palumbo
Male, Deceased Person
1814 – 1899
Who was Francisco Minà Palumbo?
Francisco Minà Palumbo was an Italian naturalist who made the first significant studies of the natural history of Sicily. Palumbo graduated in medicine at the Palermitano Athenaeum. He then continued his studies in Naples. He returned to Castelbuono both a medical doctor and a professional agronomist and began, in his spare time, the systematic exploration of Madonie it:Madonie making collections and finding and documenting the geology, hydrology, climate, botany, and zoology of the region. This culminated in 1844 with his first published work, Introduzione alla Storia Naturale delle Madonie.
Francisco Minà Palumbo wrote 402 articles on natural history, medicine, and general subjects relating to the Madonita territory. The more important are the Il Catalogo dei Mammiferi della Sicilia, Materiali per la fauna lepitterologica della Sicilia written in collaboration with his student Luigi Failla Tedaldi, and Proverbi Agrarj in Annali di Agricoltura. His herbarium, zoological and entomological collections and documents are in Museo Naturalistico Francesco Minà Palumbo in Castelbuono.
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