Giuseppe Saverio Poli

Giuseppe Saverio Poli
Born(1746-10-26)26 October 1746
Molfetta, Kingdom of Naples
Died7 April 1825(1825-04-07) (aged 78)
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
NationalityItalian
OccupationScientist

Giuseppe Saverio Poli (26 October 1746 – 7 April 1825) was an Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian.

His collections, together with those stored in the Royal Bourbon Museum, were the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples.[1] The specimens were from locations all over the world, and included especially, Lepidoptera, Cnidaria and Mollusca.[2]

  1. ^ "Museo Zoologico" (in Italian). Centro musei delle scienze naturali. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Temkin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).